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You must have at least a bachelor’s degree with a 3.0 cumulative GPA, and you must be in some way involved with medical education or educational research or be moving toward a role in medical education or educational research. “Medical education” can be interpreted broadly, but does not include K-12 health education.
Yes, the program is not only for physicians, but for anyone within healthcare who is involved in or interested in medical education and / or educational research. Our students have included physicians, nurses, researchers, administrators, house staff personnel and others involved in a variety of positions with educational responsibilities within a healthcare environment.
K-12 teaching has licensure requirements that our program will not satisfy. Additionally, our program is focused more on adult education within a healthcare environment and may not provide you with the tools you need for a traditional K-12 classroom or student population.
We do cautiously admit residents on a limited basis. There are two important considerations: time and the ability to perform teaching and research activities. One of your recommendation letters MUST be from your residency director and it must address these two issues and state that participation in the master’s program will be supported while the student is in residency. Be aware that many students who have attempted a graduate degree while in residency have found it to be more difficult than they had anticipated and often take longer to graduate than they had hoped.
How this program will help your individual career will depend on your ambitions, goals, chosen career path and your institution’s policies. To date, our students and graduates have collectively had the following successes:
- 164 national presentations
- 52 publications
- 21 educational grant awards ($4,250,000 direct)
- 37 teaching awards
- 6 promotions
There is no travel required at all for our program. Everything from orientation through your final project defense is conducted using web-based technology. If you are ever in the Cincinnati area for any other reason, however, we would love the opportunity to meet you!
Our curriculum is arranged so that the program cannot be completed in less than two years. It is optimized for a student who begins in the autumn quarter – if two courses are taken each quarter, coursework can be completed in seven quarters. The actual quarter of graduation will depend on how long it takes to complete the final project.
Most of our students work full time. Physicians with busy clinic schedules and little or no protected time generally find it difficult to work two courses each quarter into their schedule. Because of this, the average time to complete the program is approximately three years.
Yes. The University of Cincinnati is accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools and the Higher Learning Commission.
Up to nine (9) credit hours may be transferred into the master’s program. The course must be a master’s-level course taken within the past five years, you must have earned at least a B grade, and it must match a class in our program or be applicable as your elective. No more than three credit hours can be transferred in for any one course. If the course you took was more than three credit hours, only three credit hours will be applied.
Please provide a course syllabus or detailed course description and an official transcript showing the semester and year, course and grade.
No credits may be transferred into the certificate program. Also, please note that a maximum of 15 credit hours from UC and other institutions may be transferred in. If a student starts with the certificate program and transfers all 15 credits into the master’s program, no other credits may be transferred into the master’s program from another institution.
Yes! If you are in the master’s program, you will have two advisers; if you are in the certificate program, you will have one:
Program coordinator – Lea Alaee provides advising assistance with applications, course selection, program progression, bill payment options, graduation, grades and all other administrative needs.
Faculty adviser – Master’s students will be assigned a faculty adviser who will head the student’s master’s committee for their final project and provide guidance and assistance with the individual study. Your faculty adviser will be assigned to you by the program office when you matriculate into the program.
In addition, Kadriye Lewis, the associate program adviser, can also assist with questions or concerns regarding the program overall or with course selection and program progression.
No. Neither the transcript nor the piece of paper for the certificate for master of education indicates that the program or any coursework was completed via distance learning or online.
On Nov. 18, 2008, the University of Cincinnati trustees voted to convert from a quarter-based academic schedule to a semester-based academic schedule beginning autumn 2012. This change will involve nearly every department within the university, and curriculum planning is taking place at the program and degree level. Master’s programs will be revised from 45 quarter credit hours to 30 semester credit hours. We are anticipating graduate certificate programs to be reduced from 15 quarter credit hours to nine or 12 semester credit hours. We are developing our revised curriculum and will provide additional information as available. For more information,
read the UC press release and
visit the UC Semester Conversion website.
