Health Professions

The 34.5-credit Master of Education (M.Ed.) in the Health Professions (MEHP) and the embedded post-master's certificate (see Post-Master's Certificate in Evidence-Based Teaching in the Health Professions for more information) is offered through a partnership among five JHU schools: Education, Medicine, Nursing, Public Health, and Business. The goal of the master's program is to develop interprofessional leaders and change agents who will globally transform health professions education.

The program consists of interprofessional educational experiences designed and delivered by faculty teams from the five partner schools. The master's program includes an educator portfolio built through the various courses of the program and a capstone experience in either educational leadership/professional development or educational research. MEHP Fellows are provided opportunities to engage in deep discussions, team projects, and group presentations in an interactive online community. The course schedule and online format is designed to complement the lives of busy health professionals who want to advance their competence as educators.

This program is designed to serve accomplished health professionals with advanced degrees in medicine, nursing, public health, pharmacy, dentistry, and other allied health fields. The curriculum prepares participants (MEHP Fellows) to become effective educators, educational leaders, and educational researchers. Applicants are required to hold an advanced degree (terminal degree preferred) in a health professions related field. All courses are offered in an online format. MEHP Fellows can complete the post-master's certificate within one-to-two years, and the masters' degree within two-to-four years, depending on whether they complete one or two courses per semester.

MEHP Fellows take the first 18 credits focused on evidence-based teaching as the core for the 34.5-credit MEHP program or as a stand-alone post-master's certificate. The emphasis of the core/certificate is on preparing health professionals to teach effectively. Participants examine learning theories, adult learning and development theories, hypotheses-driven education-based practice, curriculum development, assessment and feedback, instructional strategies, cultural competence, technology integration, and educational scholarship. MEHP Fellows create an educational philosophy to guide their work, conduct curriculum development and assessment projects, and begin to focus on an agenda for their educational scholarship.

Learning Outcomes

Core/Certificate Program Goals

As part of the core/certificate, participants will:

• Apply evidence-based strategies and methodologies to teach in a variety of settings.
• Use the assessment of learner needs in order to differentiate instruction.
• Effectively plan instruction and teach from an interprofessional perspective.
• Effectively teach as a member of an interprofessional team.
• Provide interdisciplinary learning experiences.
• Incorporate their knowledge of standards and standards-based instructional approaches to teaching.
• Demonstrate collaborative and clinical teaching models.
• Effectively assess learning.
• Effectively integrate technology into instruction.
• Demonstrate understanding of learning principles, theory, and development.
• Function as reflective practitioners.
• Demonstrate how to design, implement, and evaluate curriculum.
• Demonstrate cultural competence with colleagues and learners.
• Advise students effectively.

Educational Leadership/Professional Development Track

MEHP Fellows in the educational leadership/professional development track will:

• Serve as a mentor to others in their institution.
• Build and evaluate professional development programs.
• Evaluate professional development opportunities to improve them.
• Be a change agent in their organization.
• Incorporate the contributions of various health professions.
• Demonstrate negotiation skills.
• Apply cultural competence to educational program development and delivery.

Educational Research Track

MEHP Fellows in the educational research track will:

• Experiment to determine the effectiveness of knowledge transfer.
• Design and implement a scholarly project that uses appropriate methodology to evaluate programs or plan curricula.
• Review the appropriate literature and state the problem to be examined.
• Analyze data from quantitative and qualitative sources.
• Interpret data from quantitative and qualitative sources and identify limitations.
• Disseminate findings.