HCCF - Healthcare Career Foundations

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Healthcare Career Foundations

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Program Level

Program Type

MINOR

Degree Designation

UG MINOR

Healthcare Career Foundations Minor

The Healthcare Career Foundations minor enriches the education of students from any major who are preparing for careers in medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, optometry, podiatry, veterinary medicine, physician assistant, physical therapy, public health, and other biomedical fields. It provides students with education in the STEM fields complemented with work in ethical leadership development and social sciences with a focus on understanding diverse communities or public health issues. Students who complete this minor will be better prepared to enter the healthcare workforce and live John Carroll University’s mission of inspiring “individuals to excel in learning, leadership, and service in the region and in the world.”

This minor has the flexibility to meet the needs and interests of individual students from different major fields of study and different healthcare career goals. As an interdisciplinary program that includes courses from the College of Arts and Sciences and Boler College of Business, this minor provides students with a foundation in the sciences, ethical leadership, and cultural competency knowledge necessary to provide compassionate healthcare to diverse communities. Students who complete this minor will be better equipped to interact with diverse patients and colleagues, advocate for social justice issues through the lens of healthcare, and develop into inspired leaders in healthcare organizations.

This program brings together areas of study that will provide students with the additional skills and knowledge that medical education and training programs are seeking.

Program Learning Goals

Students will be able to:

Demonstrate mastery of the core scientific knowledge necessary to enter healthcare professional schools.
Demonstrate a basic understanding of the diversity of healthcare professions and the application, education, training, and certification requirements for those professions.
Demonstrate a basic understanding of ethical leadership and collaborative principles and theories.
Demonstrate a basic understanding of culturally competent care and an understanding of others.

Minor Requirements

18-22 credits. Coursework contributing to any other major or minor requirements cannot be used to fulfill HCF minor requirements.

Required Courses

PHP 1010	HEALTH PROFESSIONS FOUNDATIONS	1
PHP 1210	SURVEY OF HEALTH PROFESSIONS	1

Subtotal: 2

Science Electives

Choose three from the following list of courses and lecture/lab combinations:

BL 1500	PRINCIPLES OF BIOLOGY I	3
	and
BL 1505	PRINCIPLES OF BIOLOGY LAB I	1

BL 1600	PRINCIPLES OF BIOLOGY II	3
	and
BL 1605	PRINCIPLES OF BIOLOGY LAB II	1

BL 2130	GENETICS	4

BL 2310	HUMAN ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY I	4
	and
BL 2315	HUMAN ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY LAB I	0
	or
ESC 2050	HUMAN ANATOMY	3
	and
ESC 2051	HUMAN ANATOMY LAB	1

BL 2320	HUMAN ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY II	4
	and
BL 2325	HUMAN ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY LAB II	0
	or
ESC 2060	HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY	3
	and
ESC 2061	HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY LAB	1

CH 1410	GENERAL CHEMISTRY I	4
	and
CH 1430	GENERAL CHEMISTRY LAB I	1

CH 1420	GENERAL CHEMISTRY II	4
	and
CH 1440	GENERAL CHEMISTRY LAB II	1

CH 4310	GENERAL BIOCHEMISTRY	4
CH 4350	BIOCHEMISTRY I	3

PH 1250	GENERAL PHYSICS I	3
	and
PH 1251	GENERAL PHYSICS LAB I	1

PH 1260	GENERAL PHYSICS II	3
	and
PH 1261	GENERAL PHYSICS LAB II	1

DATA 2600	INTERMEDIATE STATISTICS WITH SPSS	3

Subtotal: 10-14

Ethical Leadership Elective

Choose one:

LP 1350	LEADERSHIP AND SOCIAL JUSTICE	3
LP 2500	GLOBAL LEADERSHIP	3
PHP 2790	HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONS: CLINICAL DECISION MAKING, ETHICS, & JUSTICE	3
PL 2081	ETHICAL THEORY	3
PL 2084	INTRODUCTION TO ETHICS	3
PL 2088	BIOETHICS	3
TRS 3562	RELIGION, ETHICS, AND PUBLIC POLICY	3
TRS 3563	BIOETHICS	3

Subtotal: 3

Cultural Competency Elective