Clinical Services

College of Health Sciences

The College of Health Sciences at Tennessee State University was established to offer educational programs designed to produce allied health professions practitioners and to prepare individuals who are interested in pursuing careers as educators in the health professions; to encourage, develop and support interest in research; and to provide health care, when appropriate, and continuing educational services to the community. This threefold purpose is consistent with the stated mission of Tennessee State University. The specific objectives of the College of Health Sciences are as follows:

1. To develop and implement educational programs designed to produce allied health practitioners and educators based upon employment demands and the availability of resources.
2. To recruit students interested in careers in the health care field in programs offered in the School and instill in these students the basic principles of morality and and professional ethics; to provide these students with career counseling, academic advisement, and tutorial assistance designed to assist them in their effort to achieve their career goals.
3. To maintain full accreditation by appropriate agencies for all programs offered by the School.
4. To recruit and maintain faculty capable of making significant contributions to the basic and applied research efforts of the supporting institutions.
5. To encourage and promote the rendering of service to the community through the sponsorship of seminars, workshops, consultation, and the delivery of health care whenever appropriate.
6. To identify and serve the needs of students whose prior educational and/or cultural disadvantage has prevented their being fully prepared to pursue an allied health career as well as the needs of advantaged students.
   

Instruction is achieved through the following department(s):

Department of Cardio-Respiratory Care Sciences
Department of Dental Hygiene
Department of Healthcare Administration and Health Sciences
Department of Health Information Management
Department of Medical Technology
Department of Occupational Therapy
Department of Physical Therapy   
Department of Speech Pathology & Audiology

Clinic Services

For more information, write the College of Health Sciences, Tennessee State University, 3500 John A. Merritt Blvd., Campus Box 9639, Nashville, TN 37209, or call (615) 963-5871