MHPE 501
Scholarship in Health Professions Education
Credit hours: 4

The course examines definitions and types of scholarship in education and health professions education (HPE) in particular, including scholarship of discovery, scholarship of integration, and scholarship of application.  The student learns to evaluate works of scholarship in education based on standards of scholarship, including clear goals, adequate preparation, appropriate methods, significant results, effective presentation, and reflective critique.  Students engage in evidence-based education, learning how to gather evidence in support of educational policies or practices, based on sound scholarship, and how to prepare a position paper on a HPE matter of current concern in the student’s workplace, based on a careful analysis of available scholarship.

Instructors: Rachel Yudkowsky and Georges Bordage

MHPE 502
Instruction and Assessment in Health Professions Education
Credit hours: 4

An introduction to the concepts, methods and issues of effective instruction and assessment in health professions education, including the examination of how effective instruction and assessment support student learning and faculty decision making.

Instructors: Ara Tekian, Yoon Soo Park, Janet Riddle, and Carol Kamin

MHPE 503
Curriculum and Evaluation in Health Professions Education
Credit hours: 4

Examines methods and issues in planning and evaluation of educational programs in the health professions, including how institutional and social forces affect planning and evaluation.

Instructors: Ilene Harris and Les Sandlow

MHPE 504
Leadership in Health Professions Education
Credit hours: 4

Focuses on problems, issues, and practices of leadership in health professions education.

Instructors: Alan Schwartz, Marcia Edison, Matthew Lineberry, and Laura Hirshfield

MHPE 505
Introduction to Health Professions Education: Leadership, Scholarship, and Current Issues
Credit hours: 2

The course is intended to serve the intertwined purposes of providing an orientation to the entire MHPE program and to each required course in the program.  This course will provide an orientation to the major themes of the required courses, as well as to the instructional and learning methods used in each of these courses, namely active and collaborative learning.  This course will also provide an orientation to the array of electives available to students in the MHPE program.

Instructors: Ilene Harris and Ara Tekian

MHPE 494 Elective
Simulations
Credit hours: 2

Explores characteristics of simulations, from low-tech to high fidelity, and their use in a variety of settings and professions, such as medicine, architecture, law, military and aviation. Examines the use of simulations particularly in competence assessment, including cognitive, affective and performance skills.

Instructor: Ara Tekian and Matthew Lineberry

MHPE 494 Elective
Grant Writing for Development Projects
Credit hours: 2

This course provides a hands-on experience writing an educational, non-research grant. Students will have the opportunity to create a grant application for a curriculum or evaluation project that matches their interests, and receive individualized feedback throughout the course. MHPE 503 Curriculum and Evaluation is a prerequisite for this elective.

Instructor: Marcia Edison

MHPE 494 Elective
Ambulatory Care Education
Credit hours: 2

This course explores the politics of ambulatory care education, how to plan a curriculum, the use of the appropriate teaching and learning methods, the unique faculty development needs, and how to develop an evaluation plan to determine the success of the program.

Instructor: Janet Riddle

MHPE 494 Elective
Introduction to Quantitative Data Analysis
Credit hours: 2

Introduction of students to a variety of techniques for analyzing behavioral science or educational data and provides hands-on experience performing these analyses with statistical software. Students will gain a sense of the breadth of techniques available for understanding and exploring relationships in data. The ulterior motive of the instructors is to free students from the tyranny of fear of quantitative analysis.

Instructors: Matthew Lineberry and Yoon Soo Park

MHPE 494 Elective
Assessment Methods
Credit hours: 2

This is an overview course of many important aspects of assessment, such as validity and reliability, including Generalizability Theory, and statistics of testing. Emphasis is on development, use and evaluation of multiple choice tests, and test items, controlled clinical performance examinations, and traditional clinical performance ratings.

Instructors: Ilene Harris, Dorthea Juul, and Yoon Soo Park

MHPE 494 Elective
Test Development
Credit hours: 2

This is a “hands-on” course in test development for classroom-type achievement tests, giving students the experience of (virtually) developing an achievement test from its beginnings of content definition through test administration, scoring, evaluating the test results, and preparing a technical report summarizing the validity evidence for the achievement examination.

Instructors: Dorthea Juul and Yoon Soo Park

MHPE 494 Elective
Ethics in Educational Research
Credit hours: 2

Instructor: Timothy Murphy

MHPE 494 Elective
Advanced Instructional Methods
Credit hours: 2

This course explores small group teaching methods, comparing and contrasting the advantages and disadvantages of each method. For each method, we will discuss implementation issues, roles for students and faculty, and case development. The emphasis is on developing cases for each method, completing a matrix for comparing each method and an evidenced based argument why one method might be best for your teaching environment.

Instructor: Carol Kamin

MHPE 494 Elective
Faculty Development
Credit hours: 2

Knowledge and skills in faculty development are a major component of the repertoire of leaders in health professions education. Faculty development may be defined as a broad range of activities designed to prepare, assist and renew faculty, in various positions and career stages, for their academic roles and responsibilities of teaching, research, administration, writing and/or career development. This course focuses on the meaning, purposes, foci, methods and evaluation of faculty development programs and activities in health professions education. Course activities include group reading and analysis of papers describing ‘best practices’ in faculty development, and ‘best scholarship’ in faculty development, and using the lessons learned to to develop a faculty development plan for situations in students’ professional settings.

Instructor: Janet Riddle

MHPE 494 Elective
Intermediate Quantitative Data Analysis
Credit hours: 2

This course includes a didactic component, focused on topics including handling of missing data, approaches to clustered data, and categorical independent variables; and a practical component, focused on collaborative analysis of student data sets (which need not have missing, clustered, or categorical variables). Students should be familiar with the material covered in “Introductory Quantitative Data Analysis”, should have previously collected a data set for analysis in the course (thesis data sets are particularly appropriate!), and should have access to a full version of SPSS (or SAS).

Instructors: Alan Schwartz and Yoon Soo Park

MHPE 494 Elective
Assessing ACGME Competencies & Milestones
Credit hours: 2

This course will review a select number of assessment methods for each of the ACGME competencies and the CanMED roles, elaborate on the selection process of assessment methods according to the milestones and explore a reasonable monitoring and documentation system for the list of EPAs (Entrustable Professional Activities) matched against the competencies. Participants will critically review the assessment methods used at their home institutions and prepare a blueprint reflecting innovations that they want to introduce.

This course is very interactive and includes a number of individual and group presentations. Additionally, guest speakers from ACGME and residency program directors from UIC will participate. The course assignment (group work) is preparation of a draft manuscript that will be edited and sent for publication.

Instructor: Ara Tekian

MHPE 494 Elective
Leadership & Professional Identity
Credit hours: 2

This course will provide an introduction to social science theories that focus on professional identity formation in leadership contexts. In this class, we will explore how leaders in the health professions learn the social norms associated with leadership, discuss how these norms are affected by various identities (such as gender, race, nationality, disability, and clinical specialty), and investigate the impact of these types of identities on interprofessional groups.

Instructor: Laura Hirshfield

MHPE 494 Elective
Advanced Program Evaluation
Credit hours: 2​

This course is a course in program evaluation with an emphasis on design and implementation of an actual evaluation plan for a curricular program.

Students are expected to have a basic knowledge of program evaluation and educational methods (e.g. MHPE 503- Curriculum and Evaluation) used in training health professionals. The course is intended for students who wish to conduct an evaluation of educational programs that they manage.

Instructor: Les Sandlow

MHPE 494 Elective
Disability, Education, Health Care, and Society for HPE Leaders
Credit hours: 2

Using disability as a focal point to investigate the interaction of health issues and society, the course will introduce health professions educators/leaders to various experiences, contexts and debates relating to people with disabilities, both American and non-American. In addition, students will use the course as a laboratory to then investigate and plan a disability education curricular intervention(s) for a chosen educational context (i.e. their medical school, residency, faculty development programs, CME, etc.) as well as design a mechanism to evaluate their proposed educational program.

Instructor: Sandy Sufian

MHPE 532 Elective
Qualitative Methods
Credit hours: 2

The MHPE Program, overall, is designed to prepare leaders and scholars in health professions education (HPE). Qualitative methods are a major component of the repertoire of scholars. Qualitative methods may be conceived of variously in terms of: research/scholarship paradigm or forms of inquiry (epistemology);  research design;  research methods;  instruments for data collection;  types of data collected;  methods of data analysis (e.g., interview with individuals or focus groups, captured in audiotapes/transcriptions of notes, responses to open-ended questions in survey formats;  observations, captured in field notes, and document analysis);  forms of results or conclusions;  and forms of reporting.  The purposes of this course are:  to provide students with a broad overview of qualitative methods, including all of the aspects above;  to help them develop skills in qualitative data analysis, namely data in the form of words or images;  to help them develop some skills in design, implementation, and reporting of qualitative studies;  and to provide them with knowledge of published qualitative studies conducted in the area of health science education and skills in critical analysis of such studies.

Instructor: Ilene Harris, Carol Kamin, and Laura Hirshfield

MHPE 533 Elective
Survey Research Methods
Credit hours: 2

This course will focus on the basics of quantitative survey design, administration, scoring, and statistical analysis for use in research and evaluation settings. Topics include: strengths and limitations of survey research methods; writing effective questionaire/survey/rating scale items; designing survey research instruments; sampling; survey administration; collecting and analyzing data; validity; reliability/reproducibility; and reporting the results. The course emphasizes quantitative methods and does not cover qualitative survey methods.

Instructor: Alan Schwartz

MHPE 534 Elective
Research Design and Grant Writing
Credit hours: 2

This course provides an introduction to the skills necessary to plan a research project and write a research grant proposal in an area of health professions education using a systematic approach.

Instructors: Matthew Lineberry and Georges Bordage

MHPE 537 Elective
Writing for Scientific Publication
Credit hours: 2

This course explores the process of fully preparing and submitting a manuscript to a health professions journal. Students must bring analyzed data set.

Instructor Comments:

“All academic health professionals are required–and many non-academic health professionals desire–to disseminate knowledge of research findings and scholarly information via professional publications. Many, however, receive little or no training in this skill. This course will give students the opportunity to learn and practice both the skills needed to produce a research manuscript and a conceptual approach to writing that will carry over to future writing projects.” — Georges Bordage, M.D., Ph.D.

Instructors: Georges Bordage and Ilene Harris