Benefits of the Health Certificate Program
1. All courses are online.
2. Possibility to receive a diploma certificate from the Department of Health and ECU Brody School of Medicine
3. Designed for professionals in public health in the community and local health authorities of the State.
4. Complete certificate program in 1 year.
5. Learn new skills for public health graduates will not only work well with the help of ethnic inequality and health, but also for professionals in public health support, ethnicity specific health and health disparities, intervention programs design.
6. In the second phase of the certificate program, we will highlight a specific disease-based health disparities curriculum (ie …) Cancer Health Disparities, to provide students with a specific disease based on the expertise of disparities Health and extramural funding to federal agencies will receive priority for training of public health with new skills in a particular area of health disparities in health.
Format of Online Health Courses:
The ECU is under the Blackboard system, each online course to be structured and organized with this system. In our initial phase of online courses, we will use the following strategies to manage our conferences, discussion forums and departure:
1. Podcast / Webcam Talks
2. Discussion Board Sessions
3. Chatroom Virtual classroom sessions
Podcast / Webcam Lessons:
The online courses use podcasting (MP3 audio) and webcam (video files) for his presentation style and presentation. Each week, Professor upload a podcast / webcam presentation (audio and visual) to a specific point on the blackboard system. Students can download the podcast / Webcam (mp3) in the conference papers of the Blackboard system is and hear / see on your computer or iPod. The Podcast lectures are the main contents of the conference named Mark and reading Discussion questions for the chat and virtual classroom sessions to present.
Discussion Board meetings:
Each week, students will respond to a discussion group on meeting, a topic that is directly connected to the conference weekly podcast. Students are required to report their responses after listening to the podcasts in the form of lectures, reading the chapters designated, and additional research if necessary until the end of the week, or be called a day other than Professor.
Virtual class chatroom sessions:
Each week highlights a virtual classroom, students will chat room session on key issues in the discussion forum to discuss during meetings. Normally, sessions chatroom virtual class will be early evening, come every seminar.