URMC / Medicine / Geriatrics & Aging / Finger Lakes Geriatric Education Center / IAPHPC Certificate Program

Certificate Program

Interdisciplinary Aging, Public Health, and Palliative Care Certificate Program

Enhancing the Health and Social Services Workforce

Co-Sponsors

Lifespan of Greater Rochester, Inc.
St. Peter's Health Partners

Program Description

This interdisciplinary workforce education and training certificate program provides generalist-level education in aging, public health and palliative care, including geriatrics, gerontology, social work, psychology, health policy and advocacy, and pastoral and spiritual care. The overarching framework of this virtual course offering is public health and palliative care, orienting the learning experience to the contexts and challenges presented by serious or chronic illness and death or dying, as well as pandemics, disasters, migration, and humanitarian crises. The course aims to build knowledge, capacity and generalist-level skills for those working in the aging, health and social services fields, and provides a foundational curriculum in the following knowledge areas:

Social Policy and the Law
Ethics and Bioethics
Social Work, Psychological and Community-based Research and Research Methods
Palliative Care and Geriatrics
Community-based Services
Humanism

Certificate

Non-credit bearing and non-NYS DOE-approved program; certificate documents completion and satisfaction of educational requirements of the program

Continuing Education Credits

CE credits are available for licensed social workers (LMSW/LCSW) in New York State from Lifespan of Greater Rochester. Lifespan of Greater Rochester is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0089.

Goals

Educational
Career advancement

Requirements

Regular attendance at all sessions (exceptions can be made with prior approval),
Active participation in dialogues, and
Completion of a capstone project to earn the certificate
Project outline: IAPHPC Project Proposal Form

Pedagogical Modalities

Plenary lectures and panels: Common foundations
Discussions and participant presentations
Small groups: In-depth reading, discussion of case-studies
Asynchronous individual mentoring (Oxford model): Individualized study and project development/execution

Eligible Participants

This program is recommended for all health care professionals, community-based workers, chaplains, and health care administrators from the US and internationally.

Faculty

Mary Beth Quaranta Morrissey, PhD, MPH, JD, Director
Thomas V. Caprio, MD, MPH, MS, Co-Director
Beverly D. Carter, DM
Christopher Comfort, MD
John Dow, JD
Bruce Jennings, MA
Melissa Lang, DrPH, MPH, MPA, MA
Ann Leonhardt-Caprio, DNP, RN, ANP-BC
Laura M. Robinson, MPH
Frederick J. Wertz, PhD
Faculty Bios

2025 Program Dates

Weekend 1: Saturday, February 1 and Sunday, February 2, 2025
Weekend 2: Saturday, February 15, Sunday, February 16, and Monday, February 17, 2025
Weekend 3: Saturday, March 8 and Sunday, March 9, 2025
Weekend 4: Saturday, March 22 and Sunday, March 23, 2025
Weekend 5: Saturday, April 5 and Sunday, April 6, 2025

Attendance Policy

With the goal of building knowledge and capacity in each of the topic areas, this program requires attendance at all sessions. Creation of rich discussion between faculty and program participants is dependent upon regular attendance. Absences may occur due to life situations and can be approved on an individual basis.

REGISTRATION

Questions?

Please email LauraM_Robinson@urmc.rochester.edu