Health Science Certificate Options
Healthcare Leadership & Administration Certificate
Certificate Highlights
Move into Healthcare Leadership & Administration
Our HLA Certificate is designed for healthcare professionals looking to gain the education to enhance their administrative and leadership career opportunities. Build the skills and knowledge you need to move into a leadership or administrative role in healthcare. Within the certificate program you will learn skills and behavior management strategies that promote patient-centric culture and help navigate individuals through a wide range of dynamic healthcare organizations including inpatient, outpatient, ambulatory care, community-based, and integrated systems. You’ll apply concepts and theories to authentic real-world situations to best prepare individuals who want to become healthcare administrators and leaders who deliver high-quality healthcare.
Increase Training & Development as a Current Leader or Admin
Are you already in a leadership or admin position in healthcare? Our HLA Certificate will increase your current leadership skill set with relevant healthcare leadership and administrative skills taught through meaningful and purposeful class assignments. You will be able to immediately apply what you learn to your current leadership situation. The HLA Certificate is a great resource and option to support continuing training and development. Some of the skillsets you will develop further include: Building, adapting, and improving healthcare organizations to meet the changing needs of healthcare communities.
- Integrating leadership theory into day-to-day administrative practices
- Mediating and managing communication at every level within an organization
- Collecting and critically analyzing research and data
- Integrating current literature and evidence-based practices into leading and supervising healthcare delivery to patients
Designed for Working Healthcare Professionals
Our HLA Certificate is designed especially for working healthcare professionals, administrators, and leaders. With a completely-online program designed to fit with busy schedules, and that has three start dates a year, the HLA Certificate can fit your schedule. Our HLA Certificate is designed to benefit individuals who fall into the following areas:
- Looking into a career as a healthcare administrator and may earn an MBA, MPA, or MHA degree in the future
- Currently working as a healthcare practitioner and are interested in gaining more administrative skills
- Presently working as a healthcare administrator and seeking additional confidence and leadership and administrative skills
Interprofessional Program Experience
Learn in an interprofessional program. Both students and instructors are from a variety of healthcare professions and are often former or current clinicians. Interact with healthcare professionals from a wide range of disciplines, deeping your learning and networking experience.
Transfer into our PhD or DMSc Programs
Are you interested in earning your doctorate? Credits from our HLA certificate transfer directly into our PhD in Health Sciences () or Doctor of Medical Science () programs. Our PhD is designed for a wide variety of healthcare professionals, while our DMSc is a clinical doctorate designed specifically for physician assistants. Make an easy transition from our certificate program straight into your doctorate degree.
Healthcare Professions Education
Certificate Highlights
Our Health Professions Education Certificate
Hear from Dr. Malissa Martin, the Vice Provost of Academic Affairs, about the HPE Certificate.
Move into Healthcare Education
Are you interested in becoming a healthcare instructor? Our HPE Certificate (any of the individual courses within the program) will prepare you to teach with confidence. Learn how to become a designer of learning. Develop the necessary understanding and skillsets to create an effective learning experience for students.
If you are a current healthcare professional (including athletic trainers, nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists, physician assistants, speech pathologists, radiologists, and community health center instructors) who wants to instruct future healthcare professionals in higher education and impact the healthcare world, you will find the Healthcare Professions Education Certificate instrumental in gaining healthcare education knowledge, strategies, and skills.
Increase Training & Development as a Current Educator
Are you already a current healthcare educator? Our HPE Certificate will increase your current education skill set with relevant healthcare professions education skills taught through meaningful and purposeful class assignments. You will be able to immediately apply what you learn to your current instruction situations. The HPE Certificate is a great resource and option to support continuing faculty training and development.
Some of the skill sets you will develop further include:
- Understanding your students’ learning preference and designing lessons to meet those learning preferences
- Developing learning outcomes from a backward-design approach using active, engaging learning activities that are meaningful and authentic to the learner
- Creating course and lesson plans, including online, blended, and face-to-face learning curriculum development based upon a broad focus of a dynamic healthcare and economical society
Evaluating and assessing student performance founded upon evidence-based best practices of teaching and learning - Learning clinical education techniques and strategies to support both didactic and clinical educational settings
- Expanding current and innovative technology skills to support teaching and student learning
Designed for Working Healthcare Professionals or Educators
Our HPE Certificate is designed especially for working healthcare professionals and educators. With a completely-online program designed to fit with busy schedules, and that has three start dates a year, the HPE Certificate can fit your schedule.
Our HPE Certificate is designed to benefit individuals who fall into the following areas:
- Preparing to enter an instructor role as a higher education faculty member in a healthcare education professions academic setting
- Looking to refresh healthcare education professions knowledge or increase their current education skills
- Wanting to utilize an individual course or entire program for a group of faculty to support faculty training and development efforts within an individual department or organization
- Seeking employment in a setting of healthcare education, community healthcare education programs, and healthcare clinical education venues
- Professionals who teach continuing education or community education
Interprofessional Program Experience
Learn in an interprofessional program. Both students and instructors are from a variety of healthcare professions and are either former or current clinicians. Interact with healthcare professionals from a wide range of disciplines, deeping your learning and networking experience.