Overview

The Center for Health Professions Education (CHPE) is a key unit in the Department of Health Professions Education. The Center focuses on the research mission of faculty and learners while the Department of HPE directs CHPE. The Center’s additional activities and programs within the Department help USU meet its mission (e.g.,the Distance Learning Lab (DL Lab) and the Long-Term Career Outcome Study (LTCOS). HPE certificate and degree-seeking learners along with faculty conduct studies of Military Health System (MHS) learners across the continuum through extramurally funded research grants, the Long-Term Career Outcome Study (LTCOS), and future initiatives and programs which are in the purview of CHPE.

Mission

CHPE’s mission is to enhance the educational research of MHS, PHS, and VA health professions faculty stationed across the US and the world. They also conduct important educational scholarship through our faculty programs of research.

Vision

By 2030, CHPE will be widely recognized as a global leader in advancing health professions education scholarship. CHPE’s focus is on shaping scholars to include building the scholarship of our faculty, learner scholarship within our degree programs as well as scholarship generated through other efforts in the department (e.g. DL Lab, LTCOS).

Strategic Concepts

These concepts are meant to ensure that our team achieves our mission and vision. These concepts will shape how we approach the design, execution, and evaluation of each program element, as well as our entire program.

  1. Meaningfulness. We link scholarship with educational practice across the continuum and use theory to strengthen the generalizability of our work. We work in key themes/lines of research consistent with faculty expertise and MTF priority to strengthen synergy of effort in the MHS and with strategic civilian partners. We present and publish our work and foster collaborations with global partners, and we will offer courses at USU for the civilian community in order to enhance our capabilities to support the Warfighter.
  2. Relevance. Our work is relevant to the delivery of safe, quality care by ensuring that those who care for Warfighters and families are educated appropriately so that the MHS education community directly or indirectly supports Warfighter readiness and the health and well-being of the entire DoD and Public Health communities.
  3. Collaboration. We collaborate within the MHS and more broadly with HPE colleagues globally. This is a unique strategic advantage. We are inter-disciplinary by nature. We seek ways to foster collaboration nationally and internationally for our research programs.
  4. Visibility. We strive to disseminate/share best practices through relevant publications, presentations at national, international, and MHS-relevant meetings, as well as through extramural grant funding. We will publish an annual report, enhance our website, create an intentionally visible identity, pioneer educational development projects, attract visiting scholars, employ a targeted, research publication strategy, attend important global HPE meetings, and enhance partnerships with leaders in HPE worldwide.
  5. Credibility. We ensure credibility by collaborating with key stakeholders to develop University-wide initiatives. We work to increase the relevance and meaningfulness of our work and inform others about the usefulness of degree programs and the research we do. We aim to conduct top-notch HPE scholarship, and our work is both relevant and credible.
  6. Future-orientation. We seek to positively influence the future of America’s healthcare through leadership in HPE. To do so means that we stress the education of our future leaders.
  7. Stewardship. We invest our social and financial capital into activities that help ensure a demonstrable return on investment to our warfighters and the communities we serve. We strive to perform only those activities that we can reasonably accomplish with excellence.