Can credits from this certificate program be transferred to other degrees?

Many online and traditional face-to-face programs at UWF accept the medical informatics courses as technical electives in their programs, including:

• Advanced Graduate Certificate in Medical Informatics Teaching and Integration - 18 sh
  • Students pursuing this advanced certificate program complete 18 hours of graduate coursework in medical informatics. This program was designed as part of our outreach efforts to community colleges.
  • Academic Advisor: Stephanie L. Reedy at medicalinformatics@uwf.edu
    
    
• Bachelor of Science in Health Sciences
  • Choose the Medical Information Technology track. All certificate courses will count as technical electives for this track.
  • Academic Advisor: Dr. Angela Hahn at ahahn@uwf.edu
    
    
• Master of Arts in Communication Leadership
  • This program allows one of the Certificate courses to count as a technical elective.
  • Academic Advisor: Dr. Gretchen Norling at gnorling@uwf.edu
    
    
• Master of Public Health
  • Choose a Special Topics course that is a core or required course in the MPH program.
  • Academic Advisor: Dr. Justice Mbizo at jmbizo@uwf.edu
    
    
• Master of Science in Administration - Biomedical/Pharmaceutical
  • The Introduction to Bioinformatics course also counts a core track course in this program.
  • Academic Advisor: Dr. Angela Hahn at ahahn@uwf.edu
    
    
• Master of Science in Software Engineering
  • Choose GIS Applications in Public Health for the Special Topics course. The Computer Science Project course with a health care or public health-based emphasis and completion of this degree substitutes for the competencies in the Introduction to Bioinformatics course.
  • Academic Advisor: Dr. Laura White at lwhite@uwf.edu

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Is this Certificate program accredited?

Both undergraduate and graduate courses taken as part of the Certificate in Medical Informatics program are part of the accreditation UWF has with SACS (Southern Association of Colleges and Schools). For the current status of UWF's SACS accreditation, see our FAQs.

Graduate courses are also part of the accreditation UWF has with CEPH (Council on Education for Public Health), for those students applying the courses to the online Master of Public Health program. For the current status of UWF's CEPH accreditation, see our Masters of Public Health program.

Don't see a degree that works for you? Contact us! We are working on new partnerships in 2009-2010 involving undergraduate computer information systems degree programs and a graduate track in Medical Informatics for the Master of Science in Administration degree.

Also, as indicated above, the number of courses accepted varies for each program, so check with the advisors for these programs to confirm any programmatic constraints. Acceptance of course credit for programs at other institutions is at the discretion of advisors at those institutions. UWF does not currently have any plans to offer a graduate degree in the field of medical informatics. Alternatively, the focus of our certificate program is to provide high quality and cost-effective hands-on training for those currently working in the health care arena and for students who are interested in becoming involved in the decision-making in medical informatics at various levels. The partnerships we have established with other programs at UWF are designed to enhance or create interdisciplinary degrees that address national workforce needs.

We'd Like to Hear from You

For more information about this certificate, please contact Stephanie L. Reedy, Academic Advisor, at medicalinformatics@uwf.edu.