Variant of the Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) Canada 2021 Version 1.0 for Alternative primary groupings

Variant of the Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) Canada 2021 Version 1.0 for Alternative primary groupings
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10 - Health and related fields

51. - Health professions and related programs

This series comprises instructional programs that prepare individuals to practice as licensed professionals and assistants in the health care professions and related clinical sciences and administrative and support services.

51.32 - Health professions education, ethics, and humanities

This subseries comprises instructional program classes 51.3201 to 51.3299.

51.3201 - Bioethics/medical ethics

This instructional program class comprises any program that focuses on the application of ethics, religion, jurisprudence, and the social sciences to the analysis of health care issues, clinical decision making, and research procedures. These programs include courses in philosophical ethics, moral value, medical sociology, theology, spirituality and health, policy analysis, decision theory, and applications to problems such as death and dying, therapeutic relationships, organ transplantation, human and animal subjects, reproduction and fertility, health care justice, cultural sensitivity, needs assessment, professionalism, conflict of interest, chaplaincy, and clinical or emergency procedures.

  • Illustrative example(s)

    • bioethics
    • medical ethics

    All examples

  • Exclusion(s)

    • applied ethics(38.0104)
    • ethics(38.0103)
51.3202 - Health professions education

This instructional program class comprises any program that focuses on education and administration leadership skills for clinical educators across health professions and specialties. These programs include courses in academic leadership, assessment, clinical decision making, curriculum development, ethics, primary care education, program evaluation, research methods, and statistics.

  • Illustrative example(s)

    • health professions education

    All examples

  • Exclusion(s)

    • health teacher education(13.1307)
    • medical education(61.0207)
    • nursing education(51.3203)
    • public health education and promotion(51.2207)
51.3203 - Nursing education

This instructional program class comprises any program that prepares registered nurses to teach in academic and clinical settings, including staff development. These programs include courses in advanced nursing practice, nursing role development, curriculum and instruction, program and course design, clinical instruction, and evaluation of learning.

  • Illustrative example(s)

    • nursing education
    • nursing teaching
    • teaching nursing

    All examples

  • Exclusion(s)

    • health occupations teacher education(13.1327)
    • health professions education(51.3202)
    • health teacher education(13.1307)
51.3204 - Medical/health humanities

This instructional program class comprises any program that focuses on the ethical, historical, literary, philosophical, and religious dimensions of medicine or health. These programs include courses in art, cultural studies, economics, ethics, history, literature, medical anthropology, philosophy, religion and spiritual thought, science and technology, visual art, and writing.

  • Illustrative example(s)

    • health humanities
    • medical humanities

    All examples

  • Exclusion(s)

    • history and philosophy of science and technology(54.0104)
    • history of medicine(51.3205)
    • humanities(24.0103)
51.3205 - History of medicine

This instructional program class comprises any program that focuses on the historical evolution and socio-economic context of medical theories, education, practices, and technologies; and on the history of diseases, therapeutics, patients, and healers. These programs include courses in the concepts and methods of the historiography of medicine; the history of science, medicine, and technology; and of research methods in the history of medicine.

  • Illustrative example(s)

    • history of medicine

    All examples

  • Exclusion(s)

    • history and philosophy of science and technology(54.0104)
    • medical humanities(51.3204)
51.3206 - Arts in medicine/health

This instructional program class comprises any program that focuses on the design, implementation, and management of programs that use the visual and performing arts in support of health and wellness among diverse individuals and communities. These programs include courses in dance, literary arts, music, theatre, healthcare systems, program administration, and public health.

  • Illustrative example(s)

    • arts in health
    • arts in medicine

    All examples

  • Exclusion(s)

    • art therapy(51.2301)
    • dance therapy(51.2302)
    • drama therapy(51.2315)
    • music therapy(51.2305)
    • socially-engaged art(50.1101)
51.3299 - Health professions education, ethics, and humanities, other

This instructional program class comprises any program not listed above that relates to Health professions education, ethics, and humanities.

  • Illustrative example(s)

    • other health professions education, ethics, and humanities

    All examples

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