Interprofessional Health Sciences Major (B.S.)

This course is designed for diverse health professionals, including future health practitioners with clinical backgrounds, whose responsibilities include health management for various health organizations. Applications of traditional health management skills and competencies are tailored to emphasize the role of clinicians, highly educated workforces, safety, and risks for health employees, and managing health delivery personnel services that are complex and are offered in disparate settings from emergency rooms to assisted care facilities.

This course introduces the fundamentals of Pharmacoeconomics. The course compares the cost and outcomes of therapies from an economic perspective. Various techniques are applied to the decision-making approaches to determine the value of the therapies under investigation. These techniques are applied in the selection of patient treatment and formulary evaluation. Quantitative techniques as they impact health policy on quality-of-life issues is discussed.

The Capstone project is a formative and summative assessment of the student’s knowledge and competencies in their interprofessional health science concentration. The Capstone course runs like a seminar although the student has a project advisor to guide the work. The outcome measures of the Capstone are a written product, either a paper or poster presentation, and/or an oral presentation of the work to the department, school or elsewhere. The individual Capstone project to showcase the student’s interest will be decided upon by the advisor and student. The Capstone project can be research-related, direct work experience or other application. The main criterion is that the advisor and student agree that the Capstone project reflects the student’s knowledge and skills in or related to their interprofessional health science concentration.

This course provides students with a solid foundation in bony and musculature structures of the body, and upper and lower extremities. A unit on the head and neck, and one on the major organs is also covered.

This course provides students with a solid foundation in bony and musculature structures of the body, and upper and lower extremities. A unit on the head and neck, and one on the major organs is also covered.

 This course introduces students to the pathophysiology of the healing process. Topics include acute musculoskeletal pathologies commonly seen in active individuals and acute care, and prevention of common musculoskeletal injuries. Hands-on skills such as wound care, ace wraps and basic taping techniques are taught and practiced.

 This course is designed to provide an in-depth understanding of the physiological responses to exercise. Time will be spent learning how body systems work and their individual responses to exercise. Focus will be placed on the integration of the body systems to understand the overall response to exercise. There will be both in class in lab-based experiences.

Biomechanics is the science of how force affects the human body. Dynamic human movement is explained by rigid-body mechanics. This course analyzes how anatomical and mechanical factors influence motor activities. Kinematics and kinetics are explored.

This course introduces students to exercise testing, prescription, and program development for active individuals across the lifespan. Students gain knowledge in exercise prescriptions for general exercise and for specific body regions. Special emphasis is placed on maintaining a safe exercise environment.

This course investigates how nutrition requirements change across the lifespan. Nutritional status and nutrient needs are explored in the context of normal growth and body development during childhood and across the lifespan. Special attention is given to the role nutrition plays in causing and preventing degenerative diseases, and to common health problems including obesity.

This course addresses physical activity interventions for special populations, including but not limited to: older adults, children, obesity, diabetes, CVD, cancer, anxiety, depression, osteoporosis, multiple sclerosis, COPD, PAD, arthritis & musculoskeletal injuries. The course covers basic principles of exercise programming for optimal health of the general population and evidence-based, advanced programming methods, and population-specific considerations for those with specialized conditions and/or disease states.

This internship provides the student experience in a setting related to exercise science. Internship locations are determined by the student and internship coordinator with a focus on the student’s future career path.

This course expands students' understanding of the various healthcare system components as they relate to the United States and global healthcare industries. This semester's work will focus on health and pharmaceutical economics, managed care and population health models, political and governmental issues, lobbying and advocacy, and international health systems.

This course familiarizes the student with the concepts of quality and outcomes management with a special emphasis on the introduction of quality improvement processes across the healthcare continuum. The relationship of quality improvement to customer satisfaction is discussed in detail. Students will utilize databases from AHRQ and IOM to evaluate quality outcomes.

 Organizations are rapidly adapting to change, with significant implications for leadership and organizations. Teams are essential to effective healthcare systems. Leaders find they must also be able to operate in a virtual environment. The course covers the essentials of successful human resources management illustrated through exercises in team dynamics and effective leadership in a team-based environment. The course has the goal of enhancing the teamwork skills of each participant.

This course introduces students to planning options and integrated delivery operating processes designed specifically for healthcare organizations. Building on the systems approach, students learn models appropriate for health delivery organizations regardless of site, size, and complexity (medical health complexes, community hospitals, urgi-care centers) and become familiar with best practices for clinical operations management. Applications of logistic theories to hospital-wide productivity metrics and ethical constraints in health care services supply and demand decisions are covered. Students apply the various decision tools used to assess impact of strategic alternatives appropriate for healthcare settings.

 This introductory course is for students interested in pursuing a career in the healthcare profession. The purpose of the course is for students to gain a basic knowledge of the skills required for diverse health professions. The course provides students with an overview of careers in the health systems. Various health care professions and career opportunities are incorporated into this course. The collaborative and interprofessional nature of the health care team is emphasized in the modern health care arena. Students are encouraged to explore health professions through assignments, observations, guest lecturers and interviews.

This course addresses professional role development integrating concepts of multidimensional care and analysis to inform clinical decision making, professional judgment, and lifelong learning.

This course introduces the student to the concepts of the promotion of health and wellness. Topics include understanding the health consumer, personal health, relationships, disease prevention, and substance use.

This course introduces statistical research methods in health science. This course provides students with the tools to collect and analyze data. Students will analyze peer-reviewed literature to improve critical thinking skills. Emphasis will be placed on concepts of data collection, data entry, data analysis and interpretation utilizing SPSS and Excel software programs.

This course introduces students to the social determinants of health and population health in the United States. Students develop knowledge of behavioral and social factors that contribute to population health inequity and the impact of health disparity. Other topics include skill development in cultural humility, deliberative dialogue, and active listening to reduce health inequities.

A review of the current national health care crisis and the impact on legal issues for reform. Topics include issues of health care access, cost and quality control, Medicare and Medicaid, and the impact of legal decisions on the roles of health institutions, health care contracts and claims, right to treatment, and federal health plans vs. private health coverage.

This course addresses key considerations for how and why healthcare professionals make prescribing decisions across multiple therapeutic contexts and disease states in the United States. Evidence-based clinical decision-making criteria will be reviewed for select common diseases. Basic pathophysiology, pharmacology, disease state management, clinical treatment guidelines, and outcomes will be covered. In addition, this course outlines the evidentiary requirements to support marketing claims in U.S. pharmaceutical advertising.

This course provides an opportunity to examine factors affecting the unique financing of health care. Current systems used by pharmaceutical finance as well as health care organizations are discussed with special attention paid to ownership forms, governance, tax status, and budget and revenue cycles based on health payor mix (Medicaid, Medicare, commercial, self, charity care). Nonprofit status budgetary concepts are highlighted. Topics also include introduction to value-based care and alternative payment systems.

This course introduces the role of the health consumer and health practitioner decision-making when selecting diverse health prescriptions, product (medical devices), and digital applications. Based on solid models of promotion, pharmaceutical branding processes and health tailored communications, this course introduces applied topics such as direct-to-consumer health service strategies as well as the increasing role of wearable devices as health products.

This course highlights the complex skills required for applying health research strategies to pharmaceutical and clinical products. Special focus on the unique role of pharma research & development decisions including the increasing complexity of advanced medicine, and escalating research and time investments to yield future return-on-investments. Basic research strategies are assessed for ethical considerations (discounting) and comparisons with direct to consumer (DTC) strategies to identify best-practice opportunities for the specialized healthcare and pharma market.