The Master Program in Respiratory Therapy at Universidad de Las Américas prepares highly qualified health professionals with critical thinking, comprehensive training, and solid knowledge in the field of cardiovascular and pulmonary therapies. The program provides graduates with research competencies, strategies, best practices, and cutting-edge approaches to efficiently help patients and gain the skills that will improve their health and quality of life.
The graduate has a solid knowledge of cardiopulmonary anatomy and physiology and its interaction with the body. He evaluates and analyzes the alterations in the cardiopulmonary system and how they affect the individual in his daily life; he analyzes and reflects on the scientific and technological changes that lead to research in the search for new therapeutic alternatives. The graduate plans and executes cardiorespiratory physiotherapeutic intervention programs individually and as part of multidisciplinary teams, oriented to the prevention and treatment of cardiorespiratory dysfunctions. He understands and uses technology as a facilitating tool in the process of evaluation, care, and rehabilitation, improving clinical observation and therapeutic action.
The graduate in respiratory therapy is expected to perform his profession with ethics and respect for patients' dignity, beliefs, and rights, and to display leadership qualities in the establishment of intersectoral activities for the benefit of the community and the profession. Furthermore, it is expected that graduates will continually enhance their skills and be active in research activities and to conduct themselves in an ethical, creative, proactive, and responsive manner always respecting all legal frameworks, while being committed to the country’s health development process for the benefit of society. The graduate in Respiratory Therapy can work in the areas of critical, acute, moderate, chronic, and home care, as well as in pulmonary and cardiac rehabilitation.
Program enrollment: Program headcount totals the number of students enrolled yearly.
Graduation rate: is calculated through the 2020-2021 academic year, based on new, first-time students entering in the fall semester, regardless of whether they enroll in the daytime or evening version of their program (if available). These rates do not consider incoming transfer students.
In every semester, the program provides assessment results according to its Multiannual Assessment Plan (MAP), which typically considers one or more of its program learning outcomes (PLOs). Most programs utilize the platform Brightspace to collect and assess student work and to present the data and evidence of student achievement. These results and their analysis, with the objective of identifying areas for improvement, are presented in the program’s annual assessment report. In the graphic below, the most recent period in which a PLO has been assessed is indicated, with the percentage indicating achievement of the expected performance standard for that PLO, according to the rubric used to evaluate the student work. This standard can be designated at an introductory, intermediate, or final level, depending upon how the course learning outcomes (CLOs) align to each PLO in the program’s curriculum map.