Professional & Medical Education
New Online Master’s Degree in Curriculum & Instruction with a Focus on Medical and Professional Education
The UF College of Education and the UF College of Medicine are pleased to announce a new online master’s degree program in Curriculum & Instruction with a focus on medical and professional education. The program is designed for health science professionals who want to pursue an advanced degree in professional education. This cohort based program will start in the Fall of 2012.
The program will help health science professionals acquire knowledge and skills they need to become educational leaders, and to pursue scholarly activities that will inform and improve health professions educational programs. Participants will enroll in a two-year, online, 36 credit hour master’s degree curriculum that focuses on adult learning, curriculum design, educational research and evaluation. Upon completion of all requirements, each student will earn a M.Ed. degree from the University of Florida’s School of Teaching and Learning.
It is intended that participants in this program will bring their unique professional contexts and experiences to their learning. They will be active contributors in each course, which will include applying the course’s learning objectives to their professional lives. This is a job embedded program, participants will be expected to apply their learning to their day-to-day activities as medical and health science educators, and bring back to each class discussion new experiences that arise.
Anticipated outcomes of the program for graduates include an expert understanding of teaching and learning theory and practice; more advanced skills for teaching, assessing and program evaluation; skills to conduct and assess educational research; robust mentorship practices; and leadership skills in educational environments.
Admission into the program requires submission of UF graduate application form, to be completed online at http://www.admissions.ufl.edu/start.html. When completing online admissions forms, please select Curriculum & Instruction as your program of study and type in OnMed as your program specialization.
Additional materials, listed below, must be submitted to the School of Teaching and Learning(stlgradadmiss@coe.ufl.edu). The application deadline is March 15, 2012.
- A statement of purpose explaining why you want to pursue the degree
- All official transcripts from all institutions of higher education you attended
- Three letters of recommendation (recommendation form is downloadable at UF Graduate School website above)
- Resume or curriculum vitae
- Evidence of professional licensure as a practicing physician or healthcare professional (if applicable)
- A context of practice that includes medical and professional education
Application materials are evaluated holistically by program area faculty. More information about these criteria are available at http://education.ufl.edu/school-teaching-learning/admissions/.
Any and all inquiries are welcome! For more information please contact:
Erik Black, PhD
ewblack@ufl.edu
