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HCA Program Goals / Objectives & Student Learning Outcomes

• Goal 1: Education - Provide a high quality educational experience for HCA and other health professions students.
  
  • Comprehend industry structure, organizations, and reimbursement systems
  • Leverage practical educational experiences and interaction among students, alumni, and mentors throughout the region
  • Maintain AUPHA certification
  • Recruit and retain high quality faculty
  • Recruit and admit high quality and diverse student group
  • Establish and maintain strong relationships with community healthcare leaders/providers
  • Provide high quality student advising and career counseling
  • Collaborate with other ISU programs and colleges to organize and deliver high quality healthcare leadership programs and courses
• Goal 2: Scholarship - Promote an environment that supports learning and discovery through various forms of Scholarship
  
  • Undergraduate faculty to publish at least one (1) scholarly / peer-reviewed work annually
  • Undergraduate faculty to present scholarship at national / regional meetings at least once (1) per year
  • Faculty to initiate and respond to invited speeches / presentations
• Goal 3: Service - Demonstrate consummate professionalism by providing consequential service to the HCA Program, University, and profession.
  
  • Provide leadership and service to HCA program initiatives
  • Provide leadership and service to university-based committees / initiatives
  • Provide leadership and service to health related national/regional/local initiatives

  HCA Program Student Learning Outcomes

• Ensure that HCA students develop an in-depth understanding of the healthcare industry.
• Ensure that HCA students develop administrative, technical, problem-solving, conceptual, and human relations knowledge and skills that provide a foundation for effective leadership in the healthcare field.
• Ensure HCA students become well educated, productive citizens.

These student learning outcomes are further articulated in the various HCA program competencies. These competencies include the broad areas of (1) communication and relationship management, (2) leadership, (3) professionalism, (4) knowledge of the healthcare environment, and (5) business skills and knowledge.

HCA Program Internship Information

The HCA Internship provides students the opportunity to apply the skills and knowledge gained in the classroom to a real-world healthcare setting. The internship provides valuable networking opportunities and often helps students decide upon the work setting best suited to their career objectives.

Students work under the direct supervision of a preceptor, who is a manager or administrator in the healthcare organization. The preceptor guides and directs the intern’s work assignments as well as provides performance feedback and coaches the student’s professional development.

The internship is accomplished by completing 180 hours in an approved healthcare organization. The student earns three semester credits upon successful completion of the internship and receives a pass/fail grade.

Students typically complete their internship in their senior year, following the completion of their academic course work; however, they may take it in their junior year after being admitted to the HCA major by obtaining the permission/signature of their academic advisor and the HCA Internship Coordinator.

Students identify internship opportunities/placements and then work with the HCA Internship Coordinator, who will help the student identify internship goals and objectives. Students initiate contact with the appropriate on-site preceptor, and complete the HCA Internship Agreement document between ISU and the organization with the help of the HCA Internship Coordinator. The HCA Internship Coordinator will also oversee the specifics of the internship in regard to starting and ending dates, what the preceptor can expect from the student, and what the student can expect from the preceptor, and will ensure that the entire 180 hours are completed.