The use of mindfulness-based interventions in healthcare is expanding rapidly, as is the empirical evidence base supporting the benefits of mindfulness for both patients and healthcare providers. This interprofessional course provides students with a strong foundation in the history, theory, science, practice, and clinical application of mindfulness with patient/client populations across the lifespan and in various contexts. Students will actively engage in experiencing and exploring the core mindfulness practices for both professional and personal development.
Credits
3
Semesters Offered
- Spring
This course provides an in depth scientific knowledge base relevant to selected pathophysiological states. Major concepts from basic pathophysiology are built upon with consideration of responses across the lifespan. Advanced concepts of pathophysiological functioning are correlated with clinical decisions related to selected diagnostic tests and initiation of therapeutic regimens applicable to advanced practice nurses across specialties. Specific disease processes are examined incorporating the role of developmental physiology, embryologic, genetic, and environmental factors in the epidemiology of disease.
Credits
3
Semesters Offered
- Fall
This course will focus on social mission of increasing diversity of education, reducing stereotypes, and increasing empowerment of diverse voices in nursing education.
Credits
3
Semesters Offered
- Spring
Prerequisites: None. This course provides an overview of the stress system as it relates to health, illness, and the human experience. Concepts including allostasis, allostatic load, and resilience, along with the physiology of relaxation response will be presented, with evidence supporting clinical and interprofessional applications. Self-care practices will be presented and encouraged.
Credits
3
Semesters Offered
- Fall
The course focuses on developing assessment skills related to simulation-based education (SBE) encounters. This course covers the basics of tool development and evaluation, current simulation-based education literature appraisal, and commonly used research designs used to evaluate SBE learning outcomes. Customized project work supports the ongoing practice and science of simulation-based education, including development of foundational implementation science skills for transformational learning as part of participation an interprofessional simulation community.
Credits
3
Semesters Offered
- Summer
This course examines the evolution and current issues affecting persons with disabilities - the largest minority population in the United States. It includes changes in disability models and societal perceptions across time; disparities in access to education, employment, health care, transportation, and housing; and an evaluation of public spaces using ADA criteria. Emphasis will be placed on discussion of topics that affect persons with disabilities differently than persons without disabilities such as domestic violence and emergency preparedness. National and international perspectives and policies will be examined to determine their effectiveness on decreasing disparities, increasing access, and enabling participation.
Credits
3
Semesters Offered
- Summer
This course provides theoretical and practical preparation for diagnosing and treating infants, toddlers and their families. Through lectures, readings, and discussions, students will understand Individual Family Service Plans (IFSP), service coordination, family-centered practice, and federal and state legislation. In addition,students will learn hands-on remediation techniques. They will also become familiar with the diagnostic tools used in Massachusetts to determine eligibility.
Credits
3
Semesters Offered
- Summer
Prerequisites: HE-712 and HE-713 or instructor's permission. This course will focus on program level evaluation in the context of a broader system. It covers the major frameworks for program design and evaluation including alignment with broader goals of organizations and professions. Participants will examine organizational factors related to program effectiveness as well as accreditation and professional standards. Program evaluation and improvement strategies will be designed and critiqued as part of the final project.
Credits
3
Semesters Offered
- Summer
This course is designed for educators and trainers who want to learn how to design, develop, and deliver effective distance learning simulations in various fields. This is one of five one-credit courses based on the 2023 Distance Simulation Educator Competencies, specifically Domain 3 (Educational Principles Applied to Distance Simulation). In this course, participants will explore and apply the key principles and strategies for successful distance
simulations.
simulations.
Credits
1
Semesters Offered
- Spring
This is a comprehensive intermediate-level course in orthopaedic physical therapy. It encompasses commonly encountered disorders of the spine and extremities. The emphasis will be on the integration of current scientific literature and clinical practice into developing clinical reasoning skills and proficiency in the execution of manual therapy, and motor control, and exercise-based intervention procedures.
Semesters Offered
- Fall
- Spring
- Summer
This 8-week online intensive focuses on developing implementation science skills for creating transformational learning in the distance simulation-based education space. Customized project work supports the ongoing andragogy, practice, and scholarship of distance simulation-based education with its focus on skills and techniques that represent best practices for delivering simulation-based education from a distance. The course provides the foundation for subsequent courses devoted to specific guidelines outlined in the Society for Simulation in Healthcare Distance Simulation Guidelines.
Credits
1
Semesters Offered
- Fall
- Spring
- Summer
Prerequisites: HE-712. This course focuses on application of core concepts related to educational effectiveness. Various assessment strategies are reviewed and students gain skills related to appropriate selection of assessment methods based on instructional context, modality, objectives, and hidden curriculum considerations. They explore how literature can inform assessment choices and how various assessment techniques can be applied to their own teaching projects. Specific topics include individual assessment within group projects, insights from cognitive science, cultural considerations, and self-assessment.
Credits
3
Semesters Offered
- Spring
- Summer
MGH Institute of Health Professions
Charlestown Navy Yard
36 1st Avenue
Boston
MA
02129-4557