Career Readiness Microcredentials
Career Readiness Microcredentials
UNT Health Fort Worth offers a set of career readiness microcredentials that let you turn the skills you build during your studies into verifiable digital badges. Each badge is recognized by UNT Health and shows employers exactly what you can do, backed by evidence rather than a line on a resume. You earn microcredentials through experiences you are already having in your program, and you can share the badges you earn anywhere you want to be seen.
A new way to show what you have learned: Parchment Digital Badges in Canvas
Our microcredentials are powered by Parchment Digital Badges, the digital badging platform built directly into Canvas (formerly known as Canvas Credentials). When you complete the requirements for a microcredential in Canvas, your achievement is issued automatically as a verifiable digital badge. You can view your badges in the Credentials or Badges area of your course, and from there you can share them on LinkedIn, add them to your resume or email signature, or send them to a prospective employer. Each badge links back to the competency UNT Health verified, so the people you share it with can confirm what you accomplished. Your badges are portable and remain yours to share, including after you graduate.
This replaces our previous Portfolium-based system. You no longer need a separate Portfolium account to earn or display your microcredentials.
The microcredentials you can earn
Resiliency
Build the capacity to manage stress, recover from setbacks, and sustain your wellbeing
while meeting the demands of health science training. This microcredential helps you
connect how you handle pressure to how you show up in clinical, research, and team
settings.
Coming soon
Problem-Solving
Strengthen your ability to analyze complex or ambiguous situations, reason through
evidence, and arrive at sound decisions. This microcredential develops the critical
thinking that health science work demands when there is no single clear answer.
Coming soon
Communication
Develop the ability to convey information clearly, listen well, and adapt your message
to your audience across written, verbal, and interpersonal channels. This microcredential
focuses on the communication skills that shape patient safety, research integrity,
and effective teamwork.
Coming soon
Leadership
Grow your ability to take initiative, motivate others, and make principled decisions,
whether or not you hold a formal title. This microcredential helps you recognize and
practice the leadership that already shows up in your projects, your advocacy, and
your mentoring.
Coming soon
Interprofessional Teamwork
Learn to collaborate effectively across disciplines, respecting the distinct roles
and expertise each profession brings to shared work. This microcredential is grounded
in the interprofessional competencies that team-based health care and research require.
Coming soon
How you earn a badge
Every microcredential follows the same three-milestone path, and you complete each milestone using your own experiences. In the first milestone, the curricular component, you demonstrate the competency through something from your academic program. In the second milestone, co-curricular participation, you show the same competency through an experience outside the classroom, such as a student organization, a volunteer role, or a job. In the third milestone, the culminating project, you bring those experiences together and translate the competency into language you can use professionally, including a resume-ready statement and an interview story. When you finish all three milestones, your badge is issued through Parchment Digital Badges.
Why microcredentials matter
A microcredential gives you proof, not just a claim. Instead of listing a skill on your resume and hoping it lands, you can point to a verified badge that shows what you actually did and the competency UNT Health confirmed. Because you earn these credentials through experiences that are already part of your studies, they capture growth you are making anyway and make it visible. And because each badge is a portable, verifiable credential, you can carry it with you onto LinkedIn, into interviews, and into your career long after you leave UNT Health Fort Worth.
Get started
The microcredential courses will be available in Canvas soon. If you have questions in the meantime, contact the Career Readiness Center.