School of Health Professions Education Online and Face-to-Face EducationCourses and degree programmes for teachers of health professionals

“Lifelong Learning is a privilege. There is a need for ongoing learning

throughout a health professional’s career. Customized training is the new

keyword; we offer the best courses online and face-to-face. Engaging learners in

new knowledge and skill acquisition for practice setting application is our goal!”

Cees van der Vleuten, Scientific Director of the Graduate School of Health Professions Education

School of Health Professions Education (SHE)

Who’s SHE?

Health professions education lies at the basis of successful health care. Our future health professionals must be trained by professionals who have the vision, knowledge and skills to plan, deliver and improve sound educational programmes. The Maastricht School of Health Professions Education (SHE) is a graduate school for education, research and innovation in health professions education. SHE provides high quality multidisciplinary research and teaching aimed at the improvement of health professions education.The reputation and expertise SHE has in health professions education and educational innovation, as well as a strong belief in lifelong learning, guarantees a broad range of quality, student-centered on- and offline programmes to become part of.

For Whom?

For teachers, educators, managers, curriculum developers, decision-makers and all otherinterested in studying at a graduate school for education, training and research in health professions education. SHE covers the full educational spectrum. Our courses are designed to innovate health professions education. We therefore offer a full range from short and advanced courses to certificate courses, to full degree programmes, such as a Master’s and a PhD programme.

The International Character of SHE

SHE attracts participants from all over the world, from different educational contexts and with different professional backgrounds. This provides a rich source of practical perspectives to learn from.

SHE Collaborates, helps you to Innovate

SHE Collaborates is established as an office for international collaboration in health professions education within Maastricht University Medical Centre (MUMC+). Its aim is to improve health care globally, by helping higher educational institutes to achieve educational innovation. It also aspires to maintain long-term collaborations with institutes for higher education in countries all over the world by way of a demand and dialogue approach.

Innovating in Education - Problem-Based Learning (PBL)

Teaching at Maastricht University and SHE is characterised by a PBL-approach. Problem-Based Learning (PBL) is a hallmark of UM’s innovative character. This student-centred educational model is about analysing real-life problems and exchanging knowledge in a challenging and effective way. By means of this educational method, participants of the SHE courses acquire the knowledge and tools that will empower them to contribute to educational innovation at their institution.

A random selection of topics covered:• Problem-Based Learning (PBL)• Student assessment• Tutorial skills• Curriculum design• Management and organisation• Clinical teaching• ICT in learning

Maastricht University

Established in 1976, Maastricht University (UM) is the most international university in the Netherlands. With over 16,000 students and 4,000 staff, UM is renowned for excellence and innovation in learning. High rankings in Dutch and international publications attest to our focus on quality. UM graduates are highly appreciated on the international labour market and can be found all over the globe.

Maastricht University has more than 40 years of experience implementing student-centered learning in medicine and the health sciences. The Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences (FHML) of Maastricht University merged with the academic hospital into the eight academic medical centre of the Netherlands: Maastricht University Medical Centre+ (MUMC+). SHE is one of the six research schools. The excellence of the MUMC+ research is mirrored by its excellence in the selected areas of health care.

Every year the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences (FHML) welcomes more than 1,000 new students, making the faculty the largest of its kind in Europe. The “Maastricht Model” has won world-wide praise for its innovative approaches in teaching and learning. Several members of our academic staff have won awards for the high quality of teaching they provide, and have received honorary doctorates from other universities. But we also listen closely to our students who play an integral role in the evaluation of our educational programmes, thereby ensuring that we can tailor the curriculum even closer to their needs and wishes.

Based in Europe, focused on the world.

Maastricht University is a stimulating environment.

Where research and teaching are complementary.

Where innovation is our focus. Where talent can flourish.

A truly student oriented research university.

SHE Online EducationGet your education online, working at your own pace with personal guidance.

Why online education? SHE understands the current challenges facing traditional universities for ambitious professionals working in health training programmes and offers therefore also online courses for your: • Convenience and flexibility

that gives you the opportunity to plan your study time around the rest of your day instead of the other way around.

• Career advancement you take online courses and even complete entire degrees while working, while in between jobs, or while taking time to raise a family.

• Continuation in your profession to complete a degree programme, it doesn’t mean that you have to leave your current job.

100% Online Certificate Courses in Health Education, 16 weeksSHE Certificate Courses in Health Education In between the Advanced Focus Courses and the MHPE programme, a programme of Certificate Courses in Health Professions Education has been introduced. All certificate Courses can be followed as a MHPE track that can be used as an exemption for a unit in the MHPE programme.

Five Certificate Courses are provided:• Curriculum Development • Assessment and Evaluation• Educational Management and Leadership • Work-Place Based Learning• Educational Research

“The MHPE has opened my eyes to aspects of my everyday work.”It enabled me to seize new opportunities and to initiate projects, and it made me more aware of my skills (and my limits) as an educator. The MHPE is not only about “you” being a better educator, but is more about motivating and leading others toward evidence-guided changes in medical education. Not only do you gain the knowledge in education, but also you experience how to communicate and justify your ideas.

Alexandre LafleurGeneral internist and educator for competency training and assessment of residency programmes at Université Laval, Canada

“As a surgeon, I have been trained as a clinician, but lacked knowledge on several aspects of education.”The Certificate course was an excellent starting point for me, as a clinician, to find out that an online course is highly educative and can be combined with my busy clinical work and family life. As I wanted to expand my theoretical and practical skills in education. However, as a busy clinician with a family of three children, I was wondering if I could fit a master programme into my busy daily schedule. Therefore I applied for the certificate course, educational management and leadership. This certificate course gave me the opportunity to see if the course met my expectations with respect to the content, time management and the online format of learning. As a result, I decided to start the MHPE programme. I entered the MHPE and can recommend both the certificate course and the entire MHPE programme to anyone interested in learning various aspects of health profession education.

Esther HeutsOncological surgeon and assistant professor, Maastricht University Medical Centre+, the Netherlands

Online Degree ProgrammesMaster of Health Professions Education (MSc) (partly campus-based)A two-year, half-time programme on skills and knowledge required for a career in health professions education and educational research.• Mostly distance-based education. Two units are campus-based in Maastricht• Instructional method: Problem-Based Learning (PBL)• Year 1: introduction of the themes of learning and instruction, curriculum development,

assessment, organisation and leadership• Year 2: advanced modules on the themes treated in year 1. Students can choose between

a regular track and a specialised track which focuses more on research• Distance-based collaborating master’s programmes are also offered in Egypt, Canada,

Singapore and New York, USA

Masterclass Writing a PhD Research Proposal (partly campus-based, two weeks)Participants will write a high quality PhD research proposal consisting of a series of studies that are expected to be of interest to high quality international peer reviewed journals. SHE helps with the perfect preparation towards a PhD.

PhD in Health Professions EducationConducting research in health professions education within the participant’s own educational setting that results in a PhD thesis. With distance supervision from highly experienced and internationally acknowledged educational researchers associated with SHE. Help can be offered in writing a PhD research proposal.

More information and registration at www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/she

SHE Face-to-Face EducationFor professionals working in health training programmes who want to specialize and interact during in-person training.

Why face-to-face education?SHE fosters the dynamic relationship shared between a student, teachers and fellow students. Break out of your daily routine; come and work with the experts in the SHE masterclasses and network with peer professionals in an inspiring setting. Face-to-face education allows the entire experience to not only be heard but also seen and felt.

Short Courses & Masterclasses, 1 weekSummer Masterclass Introduction to Health Professions Education and PBLThe Summer Course is often the first inspiring and international encounter with SHE that leads to more ambitions to become a health professions educationalist. An introduction to health professions education informing participants about all aspects of PBL and curriculum innovation as applied at Maastricht University.

Masterclass Curriculum and Course Design in Medical EducationA course on how to systematically design a medical course or health educational programme. The theoretical basis is provided by the four-component instructional design model (4C/ID).

Masterclass Simulated and Standardized PatientThe first European course for Standardized Patient (SP)-educators about how to use simulated and standardized patients in your curriculum: training, assessment and research with SPs.

Masterclass Qualitative Research in Health Professions Education:Research Questions, Design and MethodsThis course provides a practical introduction to qualitative research methods as applied to Health Professions Education. During the course you will be guided in turning your project ideas into a feasible research proposal.

Masterclass Assessment of Professional CompetencesStarting point in this course will be the (new) messages from assessment research. The focus will be on the challenge to translate these insights to (your own) assessment practice. Attention will be paid to different approaches to assessment (design), including programmatic assessment.

More information and registration at www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/she

“Valuable introduction course that inspired me.”This interactive summer course gave an introduction to health professions education and informed the participants about all aspects of PBL and curriculum innovation as applied at Maastricht University. It will help me a lot in my work as member of the curriculum committee of a medicine programme responsible for developing a curriculum based on a student centered educational concept. My participation in the course helped me to acquire the knowledge and tools that will empower me to contribute to educational innovation at my institution.

Manal El saidAssociate Professor of Microbiology Head of Microbiology Department. Batterjee Medical College for Sciences and Technology, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

“Great professional interaction and networking opportunity”I had the opportunity to to participate in the course of Assessment of Professional Competence led by Professor van der Vleuten. The course was based on journal clubs, short lectures, interviews and many workshops. The staff acted as true role models for us by justifying the pace and the contents of the course according to our learning needs. Our informal discussions will have a great impact on my future work. This course gave me an opportunity to networking with educational activists, which is valuable also for my employer, the University of Helsinki

Leila Niemi-MurolaAssociate professor, clinical lecturer, consultant and anaesthesiologist University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Finland

“I cannot think of a better place in the world to take the next steps in my professional development in this area than the PhD programme at SHE.”I am a pediatric emergency medicine physician from the United States. I have been interested in medical education since early in my medical training and beginning the PhD programme with SHE was a large counter-balancing factor for me. Coming full circle, I decided to leave my role as an associate programme director to pursue a PhD because I was feeling like residency leaders often do not have the time to contribute to meaningful scholarship that moves the field forward. Rather, they look to the excellent work done by medical education researchers at places such as SHE. I crave thinking, reading, investigating, and writing about how we can innovate and improve medical education. I desire a career that is marked by this work.

Dan Schumacher, MD, MedAssistant Professor, Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, USA

SHE Online Education Dates

Certificate Courses in Health EducationCurriculum DevelopmentAssessment and EvaluationEducational Management and LeadershipWork-Place Based LearningEducational ResearchNovember 1, 2016 Application deadline: October 1, 2016May 1, 2017 Application deadline: April 1, 2017November 1, 2017 Application deadline: October 1, 2017

Masterclass Writing a PhD Research Proposal (partly campus-based)March 21-29, 2017 Application deadline: January 10, 2016October 3-11, 2017 Application deadline: July 15, 2017

Degree Programme (partly campus-based)Master of Health Professions Education (MSc) May 15, 2017 Application deadline: April 15, 2017

PhD in Health EducationFlexible starting dates

More information and registration at www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/she

SHE Face-to-Face Education Dates

Summer MasterclassIntroduction Course in Health Professions Education and PBLJune 19-23, 2017 Application deadline: May 5, 2017

Masterclass Curriculum and Course Design in Medical EducationApril 3-7, 2017 Application deadline: March 1, 2017

Assessment of Professional CompetencesApril 3-7, 2017 Application deadline: March 1, 2017

Qualitative Research in Health Professions Education Research Questions, Design and MethodsApril 3-7, 2017 Application deadline: March 1, 2017

Simulated and Standardized PatientApril 5-7, 2017 Application deadline: March 1, 2017

Writing a PhD Research Proposal March 21-29, 2017 Application deadline: January 10, 2016October 3-11, 2017 Application deadline: July 15, 2017

More information and registration at www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/she

Maastricht University / Maastricht UMC+School of Health Professions EducationFaculty of Health, Medicine and Life SciencesP.O. Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, The NetherlandsE: she@maastrichtuniversity.nl

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