Learning Objectives
Distinct Objectives by Majors
To achieve the Field Experience's goals, students, in consultation with their advisor, will identify objectives specific to their field placement. The following list provides examples of relevant objectives for the different majors, but is by no means exhaustive.
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>Public Health Administration and Policy
>Public Health Biostatistics
>Public Health Community Health Education
>Public Health Environmental Health
>Public Health Epidemiology
>Public Health Maternal and Child Health
>Public Health Nutrition
>Public Health Practice-Executive
>Public Health Practice-Medicine
>Public Health Practice-Veterinary
Public Health Administration and Policy
- Exposure to the political process as it relates to public health.
- Understanding of how a county/ state/ health department operates.
- Development of community partnerships.
- Development of programs.
- Administration of an existing or developing program in the area of long-term care.
Public Health Biostatistics
- Participation in a research or evaluatory setting in a project which involves application of the principles and methods of biostatistical theory and skills which the student has learned in classes.
- Get experience in protocol development and program evaluation.
- Improve SAS macro programming skills, and gaining an understanding of the role of a statistician in informing policy decisions.
Public Health Community Health Education
- Get experience and skills related to writing a grant proposal and determine and intervention ideas.
- Apply needs assessment's theoretical, practical, and methodological skills in a practice setting.
- Experience in application of theory to current problems in the field;
- Exposure to organizational settings for community health education practice;
- Gain an understanding of community health education and how it relates to other professions and public health;
- Learn new skills relating to practice and professional development;
- Gain the ability to apply theoretical, practical, and methodological skills in a practice setting.
- Obtain knowledge concerning the opportunities and constraints of settings in which the health education profession is practiced.
- Experience in working with professionals from other fields and nonprofessional groups and individuals on public health problems.
- Establish an identity as a public health education professional.
Public Health Environmental Health
- Assist the public in interpretation of information about cancer and environmental substances.
- Increase citizen information about environmental substances that are either suspected or known to be hazardous.
- Develop a draft questionnaire based on Six Sigma that can be used as a tool for evaluating employers' satisfaction with occupational health surveillance services.
- Develop an audit tool to evaluate quality of care for health care provider examination of patients.
- Gain additional insight into programs, personnel, management, governmental relations, public relations, legislative support and, particularly, knowledge of special investigations conducted by these organizations.
Public Health Epidemiology
- Practice epidemiologic knowledge of data collection and analysis in a practice based setting.
- Improve epidemiologic skills of data collection and management of studies.
- Review scientific literature.
- Assist with proposal development.
- Create databases/enter epidemiologic data.
- Analyze epidemiologic data.
- Write scientific reports.
- Participate in other community-based public health activities where epidemiologic skills are needed.
Public Health Maternal and Child Health
- Explore and apply methods of working effectively with communities or special populations within the community.
- Participate in needs identification, planning, organizing, directing, coordinating, and/or evaluating the components of health services, programs, and projects related to MCH.
- Interpret current MCH research findings and their practical application to personal and community health through appropriate consultation experiences for physicians, nurses, social workers, therapists, teachers, nutritionists, or other health workers.
- Plan, direct, implement, and evaluate in-service education and orientation programs for professional and allied health workers in MCH programs.
- Participate in planning, implementing, and evaluating needs assessments and health surveys that relate to MCH issues.
- Select, plan, prepare, and evaluate teaching aids and materials to disseminate information to professional and nonprofessional audiences through various media.
- Interpret legislation for professionals and consumers.
Public Health Nutrition
- Conduct nutritional assessment, surveillance, and identifying diet / health relationships.
- Communicate research and scientific information appropriately and effectively for different audiences.
- Practice effective ethical interviewing and counseling skills.
- Effective participation on a health promotion team.
- Application of knowledge and techniques that affect behavior change.
- Coordinate public health nutrition services with related programs.
- Select, prepare, and evaluate teaching materials to disseminate nutritional information to professional and nonprofessional audiences through various communication channels.
- Gain skills in interpreting research and its implications for the public's nutritional status.
- Evaluate food assistance programs and modify agency plans accordingly.
- Recognize the purpose and functions of food Assistance and feeding programs in the community.
Public Health Practice-Executive
- Establish a public health community intervention site from conception to termination.
- Develop skills as a public health speaker & educator.
- Learn current practices in cultural & linguistically competent health care and how these theories & standards are applied.
- Understand how health providers break language barrier with Limited English Proficient (LEP) hospitalized patients in order to provide an adequate cultural care.
Public Health Practice-Medicine
- Develop a public health analysis of a common health problem.
- Be acquainted with the leadership role(s).
- Better understand how a public health department strives for primary & secondary prevention.
- Better understanding of protocols & every day proceedings.
- Gain experience and understanding in preventive principles through a preventive medicine rotation at a Clinic.
- Understand the application of public health tools to a specific health problem.
- Apply public health skills in a clinical practice setting.
Public Health Practice-Veterinary
- Understand the application of the incident command system.
- Review basic risk communications principles for major exotic zoonotic diseases of public health importance.
