The ACCHS Admin is dedicated to supporting all constituents during this time, and recognizes that there is an interconnectedness at play; how everyone is doing affects how everyone else is doing. We are developing guidelines and resources to help students and faculty navigate the distance learning experience, to minimize undue stress or disproportionate expectation on everyone. We understand that the present circumstances are disruptive to every member of the ACCHS Community, and that no one has an increased capacity, but rather the opposite is true. We are working hard to ensure that your student learning experience remains exceptional, and minimizes the challenges with online learning to the greatest extent possible.
Online / Distance Education Task Force
The ACCHS Admin have created a task force and brought in subject matter experts (Karin Parramore & Anthony Von der Muhll) to develop training for faculty to tackle the challenges of online learning. Class sessions will be broken up, so there can be activities such as pre-recorded lecture or readings, reflections on a given topic, etc. that have to be done before a face-to-face online session, and then specific reflections or assignments completed after class. This can break up a 3-hour class into several components, only one of which must be fulfilled as face-to-face time. This can allow greater flexibility in managing your schedule, and reduce the toll of an 8-hour day in front of the computer.
Please click on the individual topics below the video to learn more about ACCHS position going into the Summer 2020 trimester along with responses to specific topics of interest brought forward by the student body.
Thank you!
— ACCHS Admin
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We are in constant communication with ACAOM, and abiding by their limits of what is acceptable during the pandemic. CAB has not yet released guidelines, but rather has indicated to follow ACAOM’s guidelines. We are well aware of CAB’s guidelines regarding licensure, and will not do anything in our education that poses a risk of students failing to fulfill CAB’s requirements.
ACCHS has sought to find a solution to the problems at hand that would not necessitate greatly delaying everyone’s matriculation through the Masters program. Because of the highly linked nature of the curriculum, any change to class order is difficult, and many changes are impossible without radically re-arranging the entire curriculum (a process that necessitates many steps in order to be considered legitimate by accrediting agencies).
ACCHS plans to run its standard MAcCHM Summer trimester curriculum in full so that no student will fall behind in didactic matriculation. ACCHS Admin acknowledges that certain classes lend themselves to online education better than others. In the future, should students wish to take the entire course again, they can do so at no charge. In addition, ACCHS will offer practical, hands-on elective courses in Fall 2020 to make up for any lack of hands-on experience during the Summer 2020 trimester. These can be audited at $80 per unit, which basically just offsets the cost of operating the courses.
ACCHS will return to an in-person on-site curriculum as soon as is safely possible per state and federal guidelines. Our hope is that no student will be delayed in their graduation during this time, and we will do all that is reasonable and will not compromise our standing with accrediting agencies to help that happen.
- ACCHS will not be offering clinical training during the break or online in the Summer 2020 term.
- Clinic will allow students to make-up hours that they were not satisfied with via online learning in future trimesters. If a student chooses to pass on the online clinic, they can notify their supervisor and the clinic admin (Andrea), and do the make-up in the next term when on-site clinic is available.
- Clinic by necessity is not being offered in the Summer, but we anticipate having in-person clinic in the Fall 2020 trimester, and can possibly open up clinic mid-trimester should the situation change dramatically in the Summer.
The total number of hours approved by ACAOM for Distance Education are as follows:
- 50 hours of clinical observation
- 70 hours of clinical internship
- 35 treatments of student delivered patient care
Summer Elective Courses
In the Summer, ACCHS is adding 4 units of elective classes to the curriculum. Summer Trimester elective courses are offered in addition to the standard curriculum, and do not take place of any courses/units in the standard MAcCHM curriculum.
ACCHS plans to add hands-on elective courses in the Fall to supplement student learning in the wake of Shelter-in-Place. These classes will be offered at audit prices ($80/unit) opposed to the standard $261/unit. In future trimesters when the courses that students took online are offered again in-person, these students will be allowed to enroll in these classes for free.
Cost per unit will remain the same for in-person and online learning: $261/unit. In-person Fall elective courses aimed to supplement student learning for hands-on courses will be offered to all students at audit price: $80/unit. All students taking a course online in the Summer trimester will be able to enroll/audit in the same course in the future at no cost.
Please visit the following links for information about Financial Aid: https://studentaid.gov/announcements-events/coronavirus & https://acchs.edu/students-alumni/#studentsFinancialAid
Financial Aid checks will be sent out to students addresses listed in Empower (https://acchs.empower-xl.com/fusebox.cfm). Ensure you login to Empower to indicate where you would like your Financial Aid check mailed to asap.
At this time we can not take back or lend books due to COVID 19. Please hold on to books. They will be automatically renewed and all fines waived. If you wrote any books down in library binder, please email bmorris@acchs.edu.
Library webpage updated at https://opac.libraryworld.com/opacv4/index.php library name is acchs no password required.
Beth is available for zoom meetings for virtual research help if needed.
Faculty/instructors will need to be mindful that due to COVID19 print materials such as books may not be accessible. Libraries nationwide are either closed or providing limited/virtual services
To access library from the ACCHS website
>students/alumni> library> click on online searchable catalog
If device asks for user and password: type in library name (acchs) no password needed
