Schoolwide Outcome:

Graduates achieve professional competencies as currently defined by their respective profession.

Objectives: SHP graduates will be able to:

1. Demonstrate appropriate content knowledge as required by either entry-level or post-professional practice
2. Demonstrate clinical, research and/or technical skills necessary for successful performance in the chosen discipline

Program Outcomes:

1. Ability to screen and interpret all types of cytology specimens

Schoolwide Outcome:

Graduates exhibit professional behaviors such as cultural sensitivity, integrity, respect, compassion, and altruism, and demonstrate excellence in delivery of service and a commitment to their profession.

Objectives: SHP graduates will be able to:

1. Exhibit professional behaviors in all interactions
2. Exhibit a commitment to their profession through professional membership or participation in professional activities, and by interrelating with other professionals
3. Identify and evaluate the impact of culture and diversity on health beliefs, practices, and actions
4. Apply and/or demonstrate leadership principles and strategies in organization or professional settings

Program Outcomes:

1. Graduates demonstrate the ethical role and responsibilities of Diagnostic Cytologist in practicing honesty and integrity in professional duties.
2. Graduates describe the ethical role and responsibilities of the Diagnostic Cytologist by practicing the principles of good professional relationships including cultural competence with patients, peers, staff, faculty, and the public

Schoolwide Outcome:

Graduates effectively communicate in oral, written, and technical formats.

Objectives: SHP graduates will be able to:

1. Express concepts in writing using proper grammar and stylistic guidelines
2. Appropriately document health information according to professional standards
3. Demonstrate critical thinking by synthesizing, organizing, presenting, and/or disseminating information following established guidelines at a level appropriate for the target audience
4. Adapt appropriate interactions and/or strategies in order to accommodate diverse audiences

Program Outcomes:

1. Communicate project ideas and their appropriate theoretical and methodological issues effectively.
2. Analyze and correlate patient data with visualized cytologic findings, recognize need for more data
3. Communicate research findings via written or oral report.
4. Write an accurate report utilizing current gynecologic, non-gynecologic and fine needle aspiration terminology.

Schoolwide Outcome:

Graduates collaborate with health care team members and other stakeholders to facilitate the attainment of common goals.

Objectives: Within their scope of practice, SHP graduates will be able to:

1. Identify roles and responsibilities of team members in the provision of patient/client/community care
2. Identify opportunities and/or participate with others to set and achieve goals

Program Outcomes:

1. Participate in diagnostic cytology and other healthcare professional organizations and the cytology community at large through patient advocacy, volunteerism, education and research.
2. Demonstrate appropriate professional relationships with diverse groups of patients, peers, other health care professionals, faculty and the public.

Schoolwide Outcome:

Graduates identify, critically evaluate, and practice professional, ethical and legal decision-making.

Objectives: Within their scope of their profession, SHP graduates will be able to:

1. Maintain and/or adhere to professional ethics and legal requirements
2. Articulate ethical and legal decision making practices (process by which an ethical/legal decision was made)
3. Apply ethical and legal principles to Identify breaches of professional ethics or legal requirements

Program Outcomes:

1. Integrate basic principles of ethics and cultural sensitivity within all interpersonal and professional activities.

Schoolwide Outcome:

Graduates incorporate educational strategies into their roles.

Objectives: Within the scope of their profession, SHP graduates will be able to:

1. Identify relevant educational content for a target audience
2. Plan, implement and/or evaluate an educational program appropriate for a target audiences

Program Outcomes:

1. The graduate will be able to evaluate cellular preparations with a high level of accuracy as defined by the program.
2. The graduate will be able to independently evaluate gynecologic, non-gynecologic and fine needle aspiration cytology specimens with sufficient competence to issue the final report for negative gynecologic specimens.

Schoolwide Outcome:

Graduates apply methods of scientific inquiry and disseminate findings.

Objectives: SHP graduates will be able to:

1. Propose a problem/topic and appropriate methods to investigate it
2. Use systematic search techniques to find and critically appraise research and other sources of evidence
3. Summarize and disseminate findings to appropriate audiences

Program Outcomes:

1. Graduates produce a comprehensive, well-organized written research project.
2. Graduates develop a research proposal and conduct research leading to a case study report.

Schoolwide Outcome:

Graduates identify, critically analyze, and solve a variety of challenges.

Objectives: SHP graduates will be able to:

1. Recognize and respond appropriately to various situations within their discipline regarding clinical, cultural, psychosocial, quality improvement and/or administrative problems
2. Design and/or implement solutions using best evidence and/or practice guidelines
3. Assess outcomes

Program Outcomes:

1. Apply principles and practices of quality assurance/improvement, method evaluation, management, regulatory compliance, emergency management, critical thinking and problem solving to diagnostic cytology laboratory services to reduce diagnostic errors, improve efficiency and timeliness and reduce costs.
2. Critically review, appraise and synthesize the diagnostic cytology, pathology and health sciences literature identify and systematically investigate research questions to promote evidence-based cytology practice.
3. Use a variety of information technologies to address both theoretical and practical problems, enhance communication, and disseminate knowledge to applicable audiences and interest groups.
4. Demonstrate appropriate professional relationships with diverse groups of patients, peer, other health care professionals, faculty and the public.

Schoolwide Outcome:

Graduates effectively access, manage and use scientific, health care and/or patient/client information while respecting the ownership and privacy of sources.

Objectives: SHP graduates will be able to:

1. Identify and access sources of evidence/information to inform the decision making process for scholarship or patient care
2. Analyze evidence/information for quality, economic, legal, and social implications
3. Demonstrate proficiency in information privacy regulations, e.g. HIPPA and PHI
4. Adapt to changing technology in their field

Program Outcomes:

1. Use a variety of information technologies to address both theoretical and practical problems, enhance communication, and disseminate knowledge to applicable audiences and interest groups.
2. Comply with professional codes of ethics and display ethical behavior in practice, education, professional and scholarly activities.

Schoolwide Outcome:

SHP graduates create a safe practice environment for themselves and their patients.

Objectives: Within their scope of practice, SHP graduates will be able to:

1. Recognize medical, behavioral, and public health emergencies
2. Demonstrate skills to create safe environments and respond to health emergencies

Program Outcomes:

1. Comply with laboratory safety measures and regulations.
2. Demonstrate basic awareness of emergency procedures and preparedness as a member of the healthcare workforce.