Certificate in Health Sciences
Patient Centered Outcomes
The certificate is designed to provide credentialed health care professionals with information about the current trends and issues in health care to include the growing use of technology, use of evidence to inform practice decisions, and the use of outcome measures focused on the individual patient/client. The certificate will provide clinicians the opportunity to demonstrate career development in an area becoming increasingly important to clinicians both nationally and internationally.
The certificate is constructed so that all courses can be used as part of two other advanced master's degrees offered by the SHRS: the MS in Therapeutic Outcomes Research and the MS in Health Sciences. All four courses in the certificate are available online.
No credits will be accepted from other institutions to fulfill the requirements of the certificate. No undergraduate courses can be used to fulfill the requirements of the certificate.
Students must complete all required course work (the four designated courses) with a grade of B or better. Students will have three years to complete the certificate. The director of the Therapeutic Outcomes Research Program will be responsible for certifying completion of all requirements and will notify the Graduate Office once all requirements have been met. The director will ensure that the certificate information is properly recorded with university offices.
Four courses are required for certificate completion. They are:
SHRS W510 Trends and Issues in Health Sciences
A seminar course to review pertinent literature and other sources of information as a basis for discussing trends and issues affecting the therapeutic professions and the health care delivery system.
SHRS W520 Evidence Based Critical Inquiry in the Health Sciences
This course emphasizes fundamental concepts of critical inquiry grounded in evidence-based practice.
SHRS W540 Patient Reported Outcomes and Economic Evaluation
Exploration of selected patient centered outcomes assessment methodology and its use in economic evaluation.
INFO I530 Seminar in Health Information Applications
This course examines the basic concepts of design, evaluation and use of interactive applications in health informatics.