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 Alan Schwartz

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 and Yoon Soo Park

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: Janet Riddle and Gerald Wickham

MHPE 504
Leadership in Health Professions Education
Credit hours: 4

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

Instructors: Laura Hirshfield and Marcia Edison

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: Rachel Yudkowsky and Ara Tekian

MHPE 494 Elective
Simulations in HPE
Credit hours: 2

The purpose of this elective is to introduce the learners to the use of simulation technology in medical education. The scope is focused, not comprehensive, and addresses instruction and assessment at the level of individuals and teams. Participants are expected to design and present a clinical educational or assessment project that uses simulation technology.

Instructor: Ara Tekian

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.

Instructors: Alan Schwartz and Marcia Edison

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 instructor is to free students from the tyranny of fear of quantitative analysis.

Instructor: Alan Schwartz

MHPE 494 Elective
Innovative Assessment Methods
Credit hours: 2

Instructors: Rachel Yudkowsky and Dorthea Juul

MHPE 494 Elective
Learning Theory and Advanced Instructional Methods
Credit hours: 2

In this course, we review the three major investigative traditions in learning theory – behavioral, constructivist, and social-cognitive. In turn, we use the conceptual frameworks and practical recommendations associated with these three traditions of learning theory to design instruction, for large group, small group, and workplace settings.

Instructor: Janet Riddle

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 a spectrum of faculty development programs and activities, including workshops, fellowships and longitudinal programs, coaching, and mentoring. Particular attention will be paid to developing communities of practice. We will explore the workplace settings in which faculty apply the knowledge and skills learned during faculty development activities. Course activities include group reading and analysis of papers describing ‘best practices’ in faculty development, individual exercises to assess faculty development needs and the organizational context, and using the lessons learned to develop a faculty development plan for situations in students’ professional settings.

Instructor: Janet Riddle

MHPE 494 Elective
Assessment of 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, select competency milestones from a pool of items and map to specialty milestones. 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.

Instructor: Ara Tekian

MHPE 494 Elective
Leadership & Professional Identity
Credit hours: 2

This course provides an introduction to social science theories that focus on professional identity formation in leadership contexts. We explore: how leaders in the health professions learn the social norms associated with leadership; how these norms are affected by various identities, such as gender, race, nationality, disability, and clinical specialty; and the impact of these types of identities on inter-professional groups.

Instructor: Laura Hirshfield

MHPE 494 Elective
Admissions, Student Progress & Oversight
Credit hours: 2

This course focuses on policies and practice related to oversight for student assessment and progress in health science curricula.

Instructor: Timothy Murphy

MHPE 494 Elective
Diversity in HPE
Credit hours: 2

This course focuses on issues related to diversity in health professions education – diversity of students and of faculty; and diversity of disciplinary perspectives.

Instructor: Jorge Girotti

MHPE 494 Elective
Technology-Enhanced Instruction
Credit hours: 2

Provides students with conceptual frameworks and best practices for technology enhanced instruction.

Instructor: Gerald Stapleton

MHPE 494 Elective
Health Humanities
Credit hours: 2

This course focuses on the role of health humanities in instruction and assessment in health sciences curricula. Disciplinary perspectives are drawn from literature/narrative, history, and ethics.

Instructor: Sandy Sufian, Kristi Kirschner, and Michael Blackie

MHPE 494 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 494 Elective
Teaching about Disabilities
Credit hours: 2

Instructor: Kristi Kirschner

MHPE 494 Elective
Instruction and Assessment with SPs
Credit hours: 2

Instructor: Rachel Yudkowsky

MHPE 494 Elective
Intermediate Quantitative Data Analysis
Credit hours: 2

This course provides an intermediate-level overview of quantitative methods for conducting empirical research in health professions education. Course materials follow directly from the Introductory Quantitative Data Analysis elective course. Knowledge of basic data management and regression analyses are prerequisites for this course. Course materials are designed to promote hands-on experience in conducting quantitative data analysis using statistical software and interpret findings.

Instructor: Yoon Soo Park

MHPE 494 Elective
The Elements of Persuasive Writing
Credit hours: 2

Instructor: Michael Blackie

MHPE 532 Elective
Qualitative Methods
Credit hours: 2

This course is designed to introduce students to the logic and practice of qualitative research. After discussing various theories of research design, we will examine several methods of qualitative data collection used by researchers in health professions education, discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each, and talk about how social scientists decide which methods are appropriate for particular research questions and in particular research contexts. These methods include in-depth qualitative interviews, focus groups, participant observation/ethnography, and qualitative content analysis. We will also focus on how to analyze qualitative data once it has been collected. Finally, students will have the opportunity to practice these methods through in-class activities and homework assignments, and the coursework will culminate in the development of a proposal for a rigorous qualitative research study.

Instructor: Laura Hirshfield