Articulation With Bellevue College’s BAS Degree in Healthcare IT Pam Charney, PhD, RD Program...

Articulation With Bellevue College’s BAS Degree in Healthcare IT

Pam Charney, PhD, RDProgram Chair

Kim Hassell, MAOL

Why Articulate?

• Builds partnerships between colleges• Outlines specific courses that will transfer

from a two-year to a four-year college• Helps create pathways for students to

obtain a bachelor’s degree

and

Requisite for consortium membership

Healthcare IT BAS Degree

• Career-oriented• Specific to those with healthcare

and/or IT preparation and experience

• Wide exposure to healthcare IT

Healthcare IT BAS Degree

• All courses are online– Fully online– Hybrid courses (synchronous distance) using

virtual conferencing

Healthcare IT BAS Degree

• Program meets the needs of traditional and non-traditional students– Full time– Part-time

Where Will Graduates Work?

• Healthcare organizations• Vendors

What Are The Jobs?

• Data, integration or systems analyst• Software application coordinator• Trainer on health IT systems• System manager• Application analyst• Clinical application manager• HIT application liaison

Pathway to Articulation

Review Pre-Requisite Requirements

• 55 credits in either healthcare or IT-specific coursework as approved by the program

• Science – 10 credits (one lab course and one life science)

• English Composition I – 5 credits

• College level math – 5 credits – Statistics

• Technical Writing/Research Writing – 5 credits

• Social Science – 5 credits (either social science or humanities must be a communication course)

• Humanities – 5 credits (either social science or humanities must be a communication course)

Current Student Population

• Target student audience– Already have associate of applied science

(AAS) in healthcare or IT-related fields– Does this limit advancement options?

• BAS considered a 2+ 2 degree– Allows those with AAS to build on prior

education and applied training

• However………

Current Student Population

• BC is not limited to accepting only AAS graduates

• Students who have met the 90 credits of pre-requisite coursework are eligible to apply

Transfer Degree Option

• Nearly all community colleges have this option

• Designed to ease the transition to four-year colleges and universities

• Creation of specialized transfer degree option can create pathway for students– Satisfies the pre-requisites for the Healthcare

IT BAS program

Articulation in Progress

• Clark College– Major Related Programs (MRP) degrees – Modified to prepare students for direct

transfer to a given major

Getting Started

• Refer to pre-requisites for entry into the BAS program at Bellevue College

• Identify applicable transferable courses

• Submit this information to Dr. Charney for review– May be asked to provide course outlines, objectives and

syllabi

• Meet with BAS program faculty and staff to finalize course equivalency guide (can be done via web conferencing)

Questions?