Health Professions Education
Advancing Health Professions Education (HPE) is crucial for enhancing healthcare, as it fosters skills in teaching, evaluation, curriculum development, and leadership for health sciences professionals. Local healthcare providers gain skills in the methodology of clinical teaching and integration of better education into national systems. These skills ultimately trade down, creating better doctors, providers, and students that can then spread through medical teaching culture affecting an entire national education. Better educated providers provide better care providing a infallible route towards improved health outcomes for individual patients and entire populations

Program Scope

The Master’s in Health Professions Education (MSHPE) is a 32-credit, one-year hybrid program delivered in collaboration with Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine. It prepares physicians and health professionals to become effective medical educators through training in curriculum design, competency-based education, clinical teaching, assessment, and medical education research.
A key feature is the Training of Trainers model, where participants not only build their own expertise but also train faculty within their institutions, supporting long-term capacity building in health professions education.

IMPACT of the HPE Program

  • Content-Rich & Innovative
Participants describe program as innovative initiative with potential to transform medical education culture in Armenia
  • Shift in Professional Thinking
Participants report fundamental change in pedagogical approach, moving from knowledge transmission to competency-based education
  • High Applicability
Applying knowledge in practice through revising lesson structures, implementing case-based learning, formative assessment

Master's in HPE

  • Mindset Transformation
ToT participants recognize that "teaching how to teach" is a structured discipline challenging assumption that subject knowledge equals teaching ability
  • Practical Application
Faculty apply new skills focusing on in-service learning, competency development, and resident assessment specific to their departments
  • Common Language
Program provides shared framework that can unify diverse departments under shared educational principles

Training of Trainers

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