CEPH UNDERGRADUATE COMPETENCY ASSESSMENT WORKSHEET

Sub Competencies

80% of the students will achieve a score of 85 or higher in the policy analysis paper.

Health Policy Analysis Paper – An analysis that provides informed advice to a client that relates to a public policy decision, includes a recommended course of action/inaction, and is framed by the client’s powers and values.

HLTH 4780 - Health Policy, Ethics, and Law

Health Systems Domain Articulates comprehension of the economic, financial, and ethical aspects of public health and healthcare policy

80% of students will get a score of 80 or higher in 100-point exam

Quizzes and midterm exam 2 Spring 2020

HLTH 4790 - Financial Mgmt and Budgeting for Hlth Service Org.

80% of students will get a score of 80 or higher in 100-point exam

Midterm exam questions focus on analyses and calculation of demand and supply of healthcare services, cost concepts and their application, and trade-offs of government interventions in the market.

HLTH 3610 – Introduction to HC Economics

HLTH 4980 - Population Health

80% of students will earn at least 85 points

Summary Paper: A paper written on an assigned country on direct and indirect impacts of designated policy.

HLTH 4700 - Global Health

Population Health Domain Appraise the direct and indirect impacts of a personal and/or public action(s) on a global health issue

80% of students will earn at least 85 points on the paper

Special Topics Review Paper - An analysis of specific strategies, policies, and actions that are being done to deal with a current environmental health issue.

HLTH 4310 - Public and Environmental Health

HLTH 3150 - Social Epidemiology

The student will receive a grade of at least 8 out of 10 on the Lesson developed and the lesson implemented.

The student will develop and execute a “Functional Movement” lesson for the HLTH 4021 lab students.

HLTH 4990 Independent study

All students will get 85% or higher based on the assignment rubric.

Design and implement a research study that addresses a current health care issue.

HLTH 4990 Independent study

All students will “Pass the class” with a score 8 or higher on Box 1 assignments (individual–based grade) and their “Selected “deliverables (team-based grade).

All students are required to satisfactorily complete “Box 1” Deliverables (attend meetings, complete trainings, complete certifications) and “Selected” semester deliverables (e.g. teach 8 lessons, write research abstract, create research poster, collect data, write manuscript draft, revise family guide). Students work in teams and final “Select” deliverables reflect team accomplishments.

HLTH 4970-Creative Inquiries

100% of students will answer questions posed to them in a professional manner with clarity, confidence, and accuracy with a score of no less than 3/4.

Final Presentation Q&A - During the question and answer portion of student final presentations, students will have to answer questions posed to them by peers, guests, and course instructor

HLTH 4970-Creative Inquiries

100% of students will score 80% or higher bassed on final project grading rubric

Final Project - Students must choose a public health question to answer that the techniques of spatial analysis can be used to tackle. Students design their GIS analysis and must find and prep their own data, prepare a work flow chart for the analysis and create a story map that communicates their results to a general audience

Hlth 4850 Introduction to GIS for Public Health

80% of students will score higher than 80% on the quiz

To use PubMed systematically as a research tool to look for health-related literature by completing a specific topic search and demonstrating skill by completing a quiz

HLTH 4600 Health Information Systems

Research and Skills Domain Demonstrate proficiency of a skill that is essential in a health care program or setting through an experiential learning experience

100% of students will pass the skills demonstration/practical exam either with or without remediation.

Fitness assessment skills demonstration/practical exam is administered by the instructor: body composition assessment, cardiorespiratory endurance assessment, musculoskeletal assessment.

HLTH 4020 Principles of Health Fitness

100% of students will pass the skills test either with or without remediation

American Heart Association basic Life Support (BLS) Adult and Infant one and two rescuer skills tests

Special Populations Domain Effectively evaluate health problems and healthcare challenges specific to a special population.

Pre-professional Health Studies Concentration

80% of students will get a score of 80 or higher in 100-point exam

Midterm exam questions focus on various dimensions of financial management and budgeting issues, covering both conceptual framework and practical application.

HLTH 4790 - Financial Management and Budgeting for Health Service Organizations

Effectively use Excel to calculate present values, discounted cash flows, internal rate of return, return on investment, payback period, liquidity ratios, solvency ratios, and profitability ratios.

80% of students will get 8/10 on exams

Exams: questions related to decision making in hospital operations will be given to students to solve during the two exams

HLTH 4750 - Principles of Health Care Operations Mgmt and Research

Demonstrates analytical skills in operation management

80% of students will get a score of 80 or higher in 100-point exam

Midterm exam questions focus on analyses and calculation of demand and supply of healthcare services, cost concepts and their application, and trade-offs of government interventions in the market.

HLTH 3610 – Introduction to Health Care Economics

Analyze economic issues in health and healthcare including the production of health and healthcare, demand for medical care, externalities in health, and health insurance.

Health Services Administration Concentration

80% of students will earn a score of at least 12 out of 15 points

MAP-IT Project - Using the MAP-IT format, a step by step planning approach will be used to create and deliver a public health program

HLTH 3400 - Health Promo Program Planning

Develop a plan for the implementation of health education/promotion program.

80% of students will earn at least 170 out of 200 points.

Floating Advocacy Project - Select an advocacy strategy based on the level of controversy for the specific issue and the best communication channel for advocacy target; craft the advocacy message; and conduct the advocacy activity.

HLTH 4800 - Community Health Promotion

Advocate community health needs using various resources based on outcome data

80% will get 17/20 on survey assignment

Survey Project – Create, administer, and analyze survey data to determine the most appropriate health communication message for a target audience.

HLTH 3030 -Public Health Comm

Analyze survey material to produce a health communication tool.

Health Promotion and Education Concentration

80% of students will earn at least 13 of 15 points on the Determinants essays.

Public Health Determinants essays - a reflective summary of how one's internship experience addressed social determinants, organizational behavior, and professional applications.

HLTH 4200 - Health Science Internship

Locate, use, evaluate, and synthesize public health information

Public Health Information Literacy

80% of students will earn at least 31 of 36 points on the Final Preceptor Evaluation

Final Preceptor Evaluation - a two page final evaluation completed by the site preceptor that scores the student on a variety of general attributes including oral and written communication skills

HLTH 4200 - Health Science Internship

Target objective (numerical)

Specific assessment opportunity

Course number(s) and name(s)*

Communicate public health information, in both oral and written forms and through a variety of media, to diverse audiences.

Public Health Communication