Curriculum

42 credit minimum
Students may complete the M.P.H. portion of the M.D./M.P.H. Public Health Medicine program in as little as 13 months

Basic Curriculum (30.5-31.5 credits)

PubH 6020    Fundamentals of Social and Behavioral Science (3)
PubH 6102    Issues in Environmental and Occupational Health (2)
PubH 6210    Seminar: Public Health Medicine (1)
PubH 6299    Public Health as a Team Sport: the Power of Collaboration (1.5)
PubH 6320    Fundamentals of Epidemiology (3)
PubH 6414    Biostatistical Methods I (3)
PubH 6415    Biostatistical Methods II (3)
PubH 6741    Ethics in Public Health: Professional Practice & Policy (1)
PubH 6751    Principles of Management in Health Services Organizations (2)

Students must take two courses from the following:

PubH 6724    The Health Care System and Public Health (3) OR
PubH 6852    Program Evaluation in Health and Mental Health Settings (2) OR
PubH 6862    Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Health Care (3)

Students must register for the following while enrolled in School of Public Health.  They may choose to completed during their time at the SPH or after returning to medical school. A public health medicine setting is required for field placement but may be double counted for clinical rotation with advisor approval.

PubH 7294    Master's Project (3)
PubH 7296    Field Experience (3-4)

Elective Curriculum (10.5-11.5 credits)

The elective curriculum is arranged around a theme of interest. It gives the student the opportunity to investigate specific public health applications.

Themes of Interest are:

• Maternal & Child Health
• International Health
• Occupational & Environmental Health
• Infectious Disease
• Clinical Preventive Practice
• Nutrition
• Students may choose to design a theme in consultation with the program adviser/director.

Students are required to choose one course each from four different types of public health functions within the theme of interest:

• Public policy evaluation and implementation
• Primary prevention interventions
• Epidemiologic analysis of specific health problems
• Management of health care organizations.

Sample Courses

Public Health Policy sample courses:

• PubH 6055    Social Inequalities in Health (2)
• PubH 6078    Public Health Policy As A Prevention Strategy (3)
• PubH 6105    Environmental and Occupational Health Policy (3)

Public Health Intervention sample courses:

• PubH 6010    Public Health Interventions for AIDS (3)
• PubH 6103    Exposure to Environmental Hazards (2)
• PubH 6914    Community Nutrition Intervention (3)

Epidemiology of a Health Problem sample courses:

• PubH 6140    Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology (2)
• PubH 6387    Cancer Epidemiology (3)
• PubH 6389    Nutritional Epidemiology (3)

Public Health Management sample courses:

• PubH 6066    Building Communities, Increasing Health (3)
• PubH 6724    The Health Care System and Public Health (2)
• PubH 6558    Health Care Finance (3)

Key learning objectives of the elective curriculum include:

• Develop a public health analysis of a common health problem
• Understand the application of public health tools to a specific health problem.
• Apply public health skills in a clinical practice setting