Hybrid Learning, Online Certificates
Description
** Register now: Classes start June 2nd, 2025, and run through October 21, 2025
This program is a 5-month, fully online certificate program provides you with the knowledge and practice skills to effectively lead interprofessional teams. Now available to any healthcare professional who currently leads or aspires to lead interprofessional teams, you’ll participate in online live classrooms and engage with online learning modules that feature interactive exercises, videos, and journals. The online live classroom sessions use Project ECHO® to facilitate technology-enabled, peer-to-peer, collaborative learning, and adopts an “all teach, all learn” approach.
Program Details:
- Starts on June 2nd, 2025, and runs through October 21, 2025
- Classes meet on Tuesdays: 8:00 PM- 9:15 PM EST
- Approximately 2 hours weekly: 75 minute online live classroom and 1 hour self-paced online module weekly
- 5 online courses, 4 weeks per course
- This online course offers 4.0 CEUs — introductory, professional issues. Boston University is an AOTA Approved Provider of professional development. Course approval ID: 0000002363. The assignment of AOTA CEUs does not imply endorsement of specific course content, products, or clinical procedures by AOTA.
- Other CE credit hours vary depending on the profession.
For more information on this program, please contact Sargent College
Contributing Authors and Instructors:
Bronwyn Keefe, PhD, MPH is the Assistant Dean of Workforce and Professional Development, as well as the Director of The Center for Aging and Disability Education and Research (CADER) and The Network for Professional Education at Boston University School of Social Work.
Karen Jacobs, EdD, is the Associate Dean for Digital Learning & Innovation as well as the Program Director for Online Post-Professional Doctor of Occupational Therapy Program and a clinical professor at BU Sargent College.
Craig Slater,PhD, is the Director of the Interprofessional Education and Practice program at Boston University Sargent College, as well as a clinical assistant professor specializing in Occupational Therapy.
Alumni Mentors:
Online classrooms are facilitated by mentors who are Boston University alumni from Sargent College, School of Social Work, School of Public Health, and School of Medicine. Each of the alumni mentors have vast experience leading interprofessional teams and have clinical backgrounds in a range of professions, including: athletic training, medicine, nutrition, occupational therapy, public health, physical therapy, physician assistant, social work and speech language pathology.
Partnerships
This course has been funded by the Shipley Center for Digital Learning & Innovation at Boston University and created by the School of Social Work and Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences.
Objectives
- Recognize the value of interprofessional collaborative practice, develop team-based approaches to managing ethical issues, and apply practical strategies to foster collaborative teamwork.
- Enhance interprofessional communication through reflection on communication theory, techniques, and self-awareness; and develop confidence motivating teams and managing conflict.
- Integrate learning theories and practical strategies to enhance student learning on clinical placement, and develop skills necessary for effective professional supervision and mentorship.
- Explore the challenges and opportunities of leading interprofessional teams, reflect on leadership styles, and apply contemporary leadership models to effect meaningful change.
- Understand financial management principles, and develop effective strategies to market and evaluate organizational capacity to offer services.
Course Outline
Learners in the certificate program complete the following five courses:
- The Interprofessional Team (4 weeks) – Recognize the value of interprofessional collaborative practice, develop team-based approaches to managing ethical issues, and apply practical strategies to foster collaborative teamwork.
- Effective Communication (4 weeks) – Enhance interprofessional communication through reflection on communication theory, techniques, and self-awareness; and develop confidence motivating teams and managing conflict.
- Effective Supervision (4 weeks) – Integrate learning theories and practical strategies to enhance student learning on clinical placement, and develop skills necessary for effective professional supervision and mentorship.
- Leadership of Interprofessional Teams (4 weeks) – Explore the challenges and opportunities of leading interprofessional teams, reflect on leadership styles, and apply contemporary leadership models to effect meaningful change.
- Building Business Acumen (4 weeks) – Understand financial management principles, and develop effective strategies to market and evaluate organizational capacity to offer services.
Course Policies
For information about refunds, cancellations, accommodations and to contact us please visit the policies page.
Accessibility Information
All online courses are self-paced and are designed as reading-based and include interactive multimedia components including simulations, video, audio, and discussion boards.