Degree Plan & Curriculum
The Department of Respiratory Therapy offers the Master of Science in Respiratory Therapy (MSRT) degree.
The entry-level MSRT program is designed for students with a Bachelor's degree who want to become Registered Respiratory Therapists.
Clinical education in Respiratory Therapy involves the application of skills acquired in the classroom and laboratory settings to actual patients in a clinical setting. Students must demonstrate cognitive, psychomotor, and affective learning domains and
apply it to patient assessment, clinical reasoning, problem-solving, synthesizing care plans, and troubleshooting equipment.
Curriculum
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The MSRT curriculum is an intensive 94 credit hours over 2 years that includes 30 credit hours of clinical experience. The final semester culminates the educational experience with a capstone project, a clinical internship, and an intensive board exam review.
Prerequisites for the program include having a baccalaureate degree, a minimum GPA of 2.75, and 8 hours of anatomy, 4 hours of chemistry, and 4 hours of microbiology
Total: 94 Credits
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Admissions Requirements
Application Deadlines
To be considered for admission to the Respiratory Therapy program, applicants must present official documentation of the following:
- Degree
- Bachelor of Science or Bachelor of Arts
- GPA
- Minimum: 2.75 on a 4.0 scale
- Preferred: 3.0 on a 4.0 scale
- Prerequisites
- 16 credit hours of specified prerequisites from an accredited college or university
Prerequisites
To check if your courses meet our prerequisite credits, visit the Texas General Education Core Web Center http://board.thecb.state.tx.us/apps/TCC/.
| Anatomy and Physiology (A&P) | 8 |
| Chemistry | 4 |
| Microbiology | 4 |
Total Credit Hours: 16
Note:
- A grade of "C" or higher is required to satisfy any prerequisite.
Application Process
- Visit the Allied Health Centralized Application Service (AHCAS) and sign in or create an account. New applicants should create an online account.
Returning applicants should login and complete the application.
- Applicants are required to request to have all their transcripts sent to AHCAS.
- Once the application is completed, we will review the application and invite top candidates for a virtual interview and to meet with faculty. You will be notified via email whether or not you have been accepted into the program.
- UTMB will send an email to the applicant with the link for the supplemental application ($40). Your application will not be processed until the supplemental application is completed.
- If accepted, you will need to log in to MyStar and accept the position of your desired program. Please allow several weeks for processing.
International Students
Applicants whose tertiary-level education has been completed at international institutions in a non-English speaking country must take and score satisfactorily on the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) or the International English Language
Testing System (IELTS) if the native language is not English. A minimum satisfactory score is a total of 550 for the TOEFL PBT (or a minimum score of 79 on the TOEFL iBT (internet based)) or 6.5 for IELTS; however, TOEFL or IELTS score requirements
are one of the many criteria of a student's admission, and the requirement could vary based upon previous education, GPA, and related factors.
Applicants from international institutions must use one of the credentialing services approved by UTMB to provide a verification and a course by course evaluation of transcripts in order to be considered for admission to programs at UTMB.
The application will walk you through how to do this.
More information for international students including visa requirements can be found here on the UTMB Enrollment Services website.