Health Professions

• SAR HP 737: Instrumentation for Analysis of Motion
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: Consent of Instructor
  This course will provide a foundation in the use of equipment commonly used for human movement analysis. The curriculum will include in-depth discussion of motion capture, force platform, instrumented treadmill, and surface electromyography techniques. Additionally, students will be introduced to other technologies used for human movement analyses including inertial and wearable sensors, gait carpet, musculoskeletal modeling, dual fluoroscopy, and MR imaging. Hands-on lab activities will include working with relevant hardware and software. Students are required to sign up for both lecture and lab sections. The course includes a final project that requires understanding and use of some of the technologies discussed in the course. The course is for students who are currently using or are interested in using technologies for human movement analysis for research or industrial applications.
• SAR HP 770: Health Care Management - PT
  This course will instruct and reinforce students in the fundamental theories and skills of health care management for the physical therapist. The course is designed with an intent of putting oneself in the shoes of a clinician as well as a manager, with acknowledgement that leaders in the health care environment are rarely able to ignore sound management principles and understanding of healthcare systems for long. Whether knowing what is being asked of you as a clinician, or being placed in a leadership position, many health and rehabilitation professionals will assume the role of a manager or have leadership responsibilities during the course of their career, often sooner than expected. The increasing rate of change in the healthcare environment is a major factor in this emphasis on leadership. This can take many forms, and an emphasis will be placed on how one can assume a position of leading in different avenues. This course will help foster the growth of an individual's knowledge and capacity to lead, in whatever form it takes. This course also develops and enhances the students' understanding of the health care system, the social and economic forces affecting the health care system, and its ability to function effectively. Additionally, the course will prepare students to enter the workforce by introducing them to a variety of tools and experiences that will enable them to manage organizations, programs, resources, and people more effectively. Emphasis in this course is on US and Massachusetts's policies and legislation, managing human resources, marketing, technology and information, accounting and finance, quality improvement, and measuring performance. Professionalism, ethics, and the APTA will be discussed as they relate to our course objectives.
• SAR HP 771: Foundations of Motor Control
  The course includes discussion and synthesis of current theories of human action (performance, learning/plasticity, and development) with an emphasis on systems/constraints, dynamical systems and ecological psychology approaches to human action, perception, and action-perception coupling. It serves as an introduction to these theories. Emphasis is placed on understanding how to conceptualize and evaluate functional movement based on these theories. Student participation in class is essential and required reading should be completed prior to class so that each student can fully participate in discussion.
• SAR HP 804: Practicum: Teaching in the Health Professions
  Graduate Prerequisites: Consent of instructor
  Supervised academic teaching in the health professions. Development and implementation of a teaching unit. Critique of teaching styles. Development of a teaching portfolio.