Enhance Your Career by Earning Your Doctorate Degree Online. With a focus on qualitative and quantitative research, the hybrid Health Sciences, D.H.Sc. distance learning program will allow you to hone your skills in research, evidence-informed care delivery, education, curriculum development, and public health.
Learning Outcomes
Upon graduation from the Doctor of Health Sciences (D.H.Sc.) distance learning program, you will:
Concentrations
As a student, you can choose from one of three concentrations: Health Care Clinician, Health Care Education or Nutrition. Both have been thoughtfully designed to help you meet your professional goals. The dissertation topics can be an area of interest for you, with the approval of your advisor.
Clinician Concentration
Our Health Care Clinician concentration positions our graduates to be leaders in the complex and ever-changing health care environment. UB’s graduates of the Doctor of Health Sciences will have the knowledge and skills necessary to improve the health of the people and organizations they serve. The program will emphasize research, evidence-informed care delivery, and public health to meet the growing need. In fact, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics anticipates that health care will generate 3 million new wage and salary jobs between 2006 and 2016, more than any other industry.
Education Concentration
For students who wish to teach, there is a tremendous opportunity. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics notes that positions for post-secondary teachers in health care will grow by more than 15 percent.
There is a strong demand for doctoral-trained college professors in the health sciences. The Doctor of Health Sciences distance learning degree at the University of Bridgeport gives you the tools you need to be successful in the classroom. With coursework focused on research, leadership and education, you can leave the program confident in your ability to teach.
Clinical Nutrition Concentration
Students in the Doctor of Health Science Clinical Nutrition Concentration will review functional nutritional assessment and intervention applications of the major chronic diseases of our culture through evidence-based research.
This track contains four courses covering all the major disease states and their current nutritional and supplemental intervention strategies. Students will critically assess and evaluate these interventions and will hypothesize, design and upgrade current intervention strategies from a functional nutritional perspective. High-level critical thinking will promote innovative improved intervention theory, design and potential application of protocols for future clinical research and publication. An in-depth look at prevention and integrative approaches as it pertains to nutritional science will form a major component of this concentration.
Planlanan Ağustos 2024
School of Health Professions
126 Park Avenue,
BRIDGEPORT,
Connecticut,
6604, United States
Master’s degree from a regionally accredited institution with a cumulative graduate GPA of 3.0 or higher, or a first professional doctorate from a regionally accredited institution and professionally accredited program of study.
Healthcare experience, professional credentials, or licensure in a health-related field is preferred. Applicants without health care experience will be evaluated on their potential for success, such as significant leadership in education, health sciences, nutrition, and the clinical environment.
Completed application and all supporting documents must be received by:
Seçtiğiniz bölüme bağlı olarak farklı IELTS koşulları olabilir.