MS in Rehabilitation Sciences and Healthspan Promotion
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UIC’s Master of Science in Rehabilitation Sciences and Healthspan Promotion provides students with state-of-art knowledge in research design, measurement techniques, advances in healthspan promotion and rehabilitation, and critical appraisal of the evidence needed to support contemporary clinical practice.
Graduates are prepared to pursue careers as faculty, assume leadership positions in the clinical and community settings, and contribute to the development of a scholarly basis in healthspan promotion and rehabilitation.
Areas of research focus on numerous aspects of healthspan promotion and rehabilitation, including chronic disease prevention through healthy lifestyle as well as neurological, cardiovascular, pediatric, and orthopedic rehabilitation. Both treatment effectiveness and basic underlying mechanisms are addressed using quantitative and clinical measures.
Through coursework, research and mentorship, you’ll learn about the measurement of impairment, functional limitations and disability.
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Healthspan promotion and rehabilitation science professionals help patients recover from injuries or surgery. They also work with people with disabilities in fields like rehabilitation counseling or occupational therapy.
What can an MS in Rehabilitation Sciences and Healthspan Promotion do for your career?
- Engage in scientifically based practice and team research
- Take on leadership roles in the rehabilitation community
- Entry-level positions in higher education teaching
- Continue on to further graduate study
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Our program allows you to choose between thesis, project, or coursework only curriculum. If you choose to pursue the thesis or project options, you’ll conduct independent research in an area of healthspan and rehabilitation sciences, working directly with a faculty mentor. Your research findings are applied, tested, and evaluated.
Our students are active in research, present at national and international conferences, and publish in their field. When you join a research team, you’re involved at every level.
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Still wondering what an MS in Rehabilitation Sciences and Healthspan Promotion can do for you? Contact Erin Fagan and get your questions answered.
You can contact Erin at:
Email efagan@uic.edu
Phone 312.996.1501
Address 1919 W. Taylor St.
450 AHSB, MC 898
Chicago, IL 60612