Health Care Education, MHS
Mission
The mission of the Master of Health Science (MHS) program is to prepare health care professionals to advance practice, education, and leadership across diverse health care and academic settings.
Program Description
The Department of Allied Health offers a 30-credit Master of Health Science (M.H.S.) degree designed for health care professionals who want to expand their roles in practice, education and leadership. The curriculum combines a health science core and a health care education emphasis to prepare graduates for roles that involve coordinating people, programs, and learning in health care and academic settings.
The master’s degree is offered fully online and can be completed in a 1-year accelerated schedule (with Dean’s permission), 2-year part-time schedule, or less-than-part-time schedule.
Student Learning Outcomes
Graduates will be able to:
- Apply learning theory and principles to develop aligned learning experiences and assessments.
- Apply ethical, legal, and systems perspectives to inform decision-making and professional practice.
- Adapt approaches to support effective teaching and care across varied patient and learner populations and contexts.
- Synthesize information from credible sources for an applied purpose.
Life Experience
Under no circumstances will academic credit be awarded for life experiences.
Continuous Enrollment
Effective Fall 2016, students pursuing a graduate degree who have completed all degree requirements, and have enrolled in but not completed a capstone, practicum, or thesis, will be required to maintain continuous enrollment at Washburn University until graduation (unless a leave has been approved). Continuous enrollment means that candidates must be enrolled in at least one credit hour until degree requirements are met. If all other course work has been completed, students will be required to enroll in a one-credit-hour class AL 777 Continuous Enrollment each semester until the program is completed. Credit hours completed through the AL 777 Continuous Enrollment will not count toward the credit hours required for graduation and will be recorded as a credit on the transcript. This requirement also applies to the summer term for students whose degrees are being awarded at the end of the summer term. Interruption of continuous registration due to a failure to follow this requirement will result in a need for readmission to the program.
Nondiscrimination
It is the policy of Washburn University and the Department of Allied Health to assure equal educational and employment opportunity to qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, sex, marital or parental status, or sexual orientation.
Admission Requirements
Candidates for admission must meet the following requirements:
1.A bachelor's degree with a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher in the last 60 credit hours*
2.A minimum of two years of professional health care experience (clinical education experience counts)
3.GRE or GMAT not required
4.Open to residents of all U.S. states
*Conditional acceptance to candidates with bachelor's degree and cumulative GPA of 2.75-2.99 in last 60 credit-hours
**Applicants residing in California can find information on the complaints process concerning out of state online schools through Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA)
Professional health care experience includes, but is not limited to, employment or clinical education experience in dental hygiene, diagnostic medical sonography, health care administration, health information technology, magnetic resonance imaging, medical laboratory science, occupational therapy, physical therapy, respiratory therapy, nursing, radiologic technology, and radiation therapy.
Admission Procedures
- Complete the University Graduate Admissions application. A link to the application can be found at: https://www.washburn.edu/ admissions/apply.html
- There is no fee to apply.
- When prompted select “Health Science” as your academic area of interest
- Select the “Master of Health Science” as the program
- Indicate your preferred start term
- Applicants will upload the following:
- Official or unofficial transcripts demonstrating completion of a bachelor’s degree. Official transcripts are required only after being admitted. Official transcripts may be sent electronically to etranscripts@washburn.edu or via U.S. mail to: Admissions, 1700 SW College Ave., Topeka KS 66621.
- Professional resume demonstrating professional health care experience (clinical education experience counts)
- One-page educational goals statement describing academic background, professional goals, and reasons for pursuing the MHS degree.
Transfer Credit
A maximum of 9 transfer credit hours may be approved on a case-by-case basis by the MHS Program Coordinator. Only relevant graduate coursework coming from a regionally accredited institution for which a grade of "B" or better was earned will be considered.
Academic Advising
Students completing the M.H.S. degree are required to consult with the MHS Program Coordinator every semester to decide a course schedule for the coming semester. The student’s Washburn University email address will be the official mode of electronic communication used by the University and Program.
Degree Requirements
- Complete all required coursework within six years of date of entry.
- Maintain no less than a “B” (3.0) grade point average in the MHS coursework.
- Two grades of “C” in the plan of study will count for credit. A student may re-take a course to meet this requirement, but a course may only be retaken one time.
- Students will be placed on probation whenever the MHS grade point average falls below 3.0 or one course grade of “C” have been recorded.
- Unless the instructor of the course stipulates an earlier deadline, an Incomplete Grade (I) must be completed by the end of two consecutive semesters, which excludes the summer session; otherwise, a grade of “F” will be recorded. An incomplete Grade (I) in the Capstone course will remain as incomplete until the course is completed.
- Maintain continuous enrollment each regular semester (fall and spring). A minimum of one (1) semester hour of graduate work constitutes continuous enrollment.
- Seventy-five percent (75%) of semester hours required for the degree must be earned at Washburn University.
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| AL 600 | Foundations of Health Care Education | 3 |
| AL 601 | Legal/Ethical Issues in Health Care | 3 |
| AL 602 | Special Populations in Health Care | 3 |
| AL 620 | Research Methods in Health Science | 3 |
| AL 622 | Organization and Administration in Higher Education | 3 |
| AL 624 | Assessment in Health Care Education | 3 |
| AL 626 | Instructional Technology | 3 |
| AL 628 | Systems Thinking and Safety in Health Care | 3 |
| AL 720 | Curriculum and Instruction in Health Care Education | 3 |
| AL 724 | Capstone Portfolio | 3 |
| Total Hours | 30 | |