You will be responsible for a group project in this course. Your
instructor will assign you to a team made up of members representing various
health professions. Your general assignment will be to develop a
mini
self study and a schedule for a coordinated site visit involving
three different health professions.
In order to accomplish this task you will need to do the following:
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Meet with your team members on a regular basis through e-mail.
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Create a fictional university, college, or health care institution that
has at least three health professions educational programs. The programs
do not have to be at the baccalaureate level.
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Decide on the three health professional programs that are to be reviewed.
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Obtain the necessary standards, essentials, site visit guidelines,
etc. as required to accomplish your task.
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Create an outline of a self-study document that incorporates the
requirements for the accrediting agencies involved. The document
should reflect an interdisciplinary approach to the process rather than
following the precision of each of the agencies involved. In the
process creativity and avoidance of replication is more important than
following a rigid prescribed outline.
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Using your discretion, wisdom, and creativity develop a mini self-study
which provides a sampling of the contents without going into the length
or depth which might be part of a regular self-study. For appendices
which might be excessively long you can indicate that "the documents
are on file in the document review room". The issue is for you
to be selective, to demonstrate your knowledge and understanding of the
contents of a self-study and present evidence of a relevant sample of the
final product.
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Develop a schedule for a team of site visitors who will come to the facility
and spend three days at the facility and/or sites associated with the facility,
e.g. clinical, demonstration, experimental.
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Put the components into a formal document and convey it via a letter of
transmittal to the president of your institution.
NOTE: There is no minimum but a maximum of 25 pages for
this assignment. Nevertheless, the emphasis is on mini self study
so choose your information wisely and avoid volume. It is a semester
group study project and should reflect the value attached to it in the
course evaluation section.
The group project is due one
week after the last class.
Your instructor will grade you and the group effort; you will be asked
to grade each individual member of your group.
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