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To prepare students to be clinical professionals and health services leaders.

Prepare students to pursue undergraduate or graduate clinical professional education.

Prepare students to be essential drivers in health administration, public health or aging-related careers.

To provide knowledge of aging and its impact on individuals, families, and society to prepare students for or engaged in careers in which they will plan, manage, and deliver services for the aging through public or private sector organizations, agencies or institutions.

To cultivate leaders by providing dynamic didactic education and applied industry experiences to improve the health of the community and advance the delivery of services across health organizations.

1. Communication: Communicate healthcare information, in oral and written forms using appropriate media tailored to specific audiences. 
2. Analytic Assessment: Use healthcare information for analysis and decision making. 鈥�鈥� 
3. Healthcare Policy and Administration: Describe the evolution of the healthcare system and roles and issues across local, national, and global health systems.鈥�  
4. Evidence Based Practice and Quality Improvement: Demonstrate how to connect and use data to promote, protect and assure improved health outcomes and knowledge.鈥� 
5. Leadership and Management: Exhibit an understanding of healthcare leadership, management, and policy.鈥� 
6. Health Equity and Justice: Describe social, behavioral, cultural, and environmental factors that impact health. 
7. Professionalism: Demonstrate a commitment to professionalism, ethics, stewardship and lifelong learning in healthcare. 

1. Communicate public health information, in both oral and written forms and through a variety of media, to diverse audiences.
2. Locate, use, evaluate and synthesize public health information.
3. Exhibit understanding of the evolution of public health and the health care system and their roles and issues across local, national and global health systems.
4. Demonstrate ability to use data to promote, protect and assure improved health outcomes and knowledge.
5. Demonstrate an understanding of health leadership, management and policy using systems thinking.
6. Demonstrate an understanding of social, behavioral, cultural and environmental factors that impact health.
7. Demonstrate understanding of health ethics.
8. Demonstrate introductory knowledge of clinical sciences.

1. Distinguish between the key theories of aging.
2. Differentiate 鈥渘ormal鈥� aging from disease or pathology.
3. Interpret key parameters of the Medicare program including policy approaches and coverage.
4. Identify factors responsible for uniqueness in each person鈥檚 adult development.
5. Demonstrate communication skills, critical thinking, management of relationships, and analysis of information.
6. Assemble & analyze appropriate research to evaluate various aging perspectives in current literature.

1. Exhibit oral and written communication skills for diverse populations and environments.
2. Demonstrate competency in health leadership, management, and policy using systems thinking.
3. Demonstrate professionalism and knowledge of health care ethics, legal issues, stewardship, social justice, and lifelong learning.
4. Demonstrate an understanding of social, behavioral, cultural, economic, and environmental factors that impact the operations of health care organizations.
5. Develop skills and knowledge of the operation and value of strategic planning in health care settings.