Thursday February 20, 2025
Work-Based Learning Programs
Enhance career pathways in some of healthcare’s most challenging support roles through Competency-based Work-based Learning Programs.
ASHHRA and Dallas College have teamed up with healthcare systems and sites to onboard, train, and retain employees through comprehensive on-the-job training programs designed to upskill and reskill the workforce. Reach out to us about these innovative, employer-driven experiences available nationwide through Elevate programs.
Recruit new staff or upskill/reskill your top employees through a structured on-the-job training program led by preceptors, while engaging in online, asynchronous coursework. These high-quality, employer-focused, competency-based programs recognize prior learning and experience, allowing participants to focus on the skills and competencies needed for success and certification. This approach enables a faster launch into a sustainable career, with the benefit of earning a full-time salary and incurring little to no student debt.
Benefits to health systems include:
- Increased employee productivity
- Bolstered recruitment (internal and external candidates)
- Reduced turnover, increased engagement and loyalty
- Turnkey program you can plug-and-play or customize
- Community benefit
- Competent staff equates to better patient outcomes
- Substantial return on investment
Elevate programs are recognized by the American National Standards Institute National Accreditation Board (ANAB) and lead to industry-recognized credentials.
The following Elevate programs were developed by Dallas College in collaboration with ASHHRA and industry experts in each specific occupation:
- Medical Assistant (clinical or administrative)
- Sterile Processing Technician
- Pharmacy Technician
- Medical Billing & Coding
- Health Care Culinary Services
- Health Care Supply Chain
- MRI Technologist
