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EDIT The DrPH program of studies is intended to be an individually designed program that makes it possible for students to develop the course of study that best fulfills their unique needs, with the advice of their Faculty Advisor and doctoral committee. We recognize that the students recruited into the program have experience in the field of public health or similar disciplines and have career directions that may vary tremendously, including policy development and services, senior leadership positions, applied research, and other foci. Students will be expected to graduate with not only excellent methodological skills, but also a wider and deeper understanding of public health and their individual area of focus.
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EDIT Students must develop a program of study to meet the requirements of the DrPH program in the USF graduate catalog of their choice, beginning with the catalog published in the year of their admission. The plan of study should be prepared with the student’s Faculty Advisor, and completed by the end of the first year of enrollment. A copy of the completed and signed plan of study should be submitted to your advisor and the DrPH program director.
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The requirements for your degree program are contained in the USF catalog for the year you start your degree. When a new catalog is released subsequently, you have the choice of following the new catalog or the one you started with. The USF Graduate School has current and archived catalogs for all USF degrees and programs, available at this link: http://www.grad.usf.edu/catalog.php. There is also a College catalog, although the USF Catalog has precedence. Current and archived College catalogs are available here: College of Public Health Catalog |
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Practice-Based Dissertation
Each student must present a portfolio of documentation and evidence for any course substitutions, transfers, or waivers requested. This is the supporting evidence to the Program of Study form that the student must complete by the end of the first year. The documentation needs to make the case for achievement of DrPH competencies and course learning objectives, as appropriate to the request.
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Advocacy Domain: The ability to influence decision-making regarding policies and practices that advance public health using scientific knowledge, analysis, communication, and consensus-building. - Present positions on health issues, law, and policy in multiple sectors.
- Analyze the impact of legislation, judicial opinions, regulations, and policies on population health.
- Influence health policy and program decision-making based on scientific evidence, stakeholder input, and public opinion data.
Leadership Domain: The ability to create and communicate a shared vision for a positive future; inspire trust and motivate others; and use evidence-based contextually and culturally appropriate strategies to enhance essential public health services - Demonstrate a commitment to public health professional values.
- Influence others to achieve high standards of performance and accountability.
- Promote effective strategies to address the challenges presented to public health leadership
- Collaborate with multi-disciplinary researchers and practitioners.
Communication Domain: The ability to assess and use communication strategies across diverse audiences to inform and influence individual, organization, community, and policy actions. - Discuss the inter-relationships between health communication and marketing.
- Prepare oral and written communications from briefs, position papers, scientific articles, community pieces
- Guide an organization in setting communication goals, objectives, priorities, and strategies.
- Integrate health literacy concepts in all communication and marketing initiatives.
Community/Cultural Orientation Domain: The ability to communicate, interact, engage and work with people across diverse communities and cultures for development of programs, policies, and research. - Develop collaborative partnerships with communities, policy makers, and other relevant groups.
- Conduct community-based participatory intervention and research projects.
- Engage communities in creating evidence-informed, culturally competent programs.
- Implement culturally and linguistically appropriate programs, services, and research.
Management Domain: The ability to provide fiscally responsible strategic and operational guidance within both public and private health organizations for achieving individual and community health and wellness. - Develop capacity-building strategies at the individual, organizational, and community level.
- Apply principles of human resource management.
- Organize the work environment with defined lines of responsibility, authority, communication, and governance.
- Implement strategic planning processes.
- Guide organizational decision-making and planning based on internal and external environmental research.
- Evaluate organizational performance in relation to strategic and defined goals.
Professionalism and Ethics Domain: The ability to identify and analyze an ethical issue; balance the claims of personal liberty with the responsibility to protect and improve the health of the population; and act on the ethical concepts of social justice and human rights in public health research and practice. - Demonstrate cultural sensitivity in ethical discourse and analysis.
- Design strategies for resolving ethical concerns in research, law, and regulations.
- Develop tools that protect the privacy of individuals and communities involved in health programs, policies, and research.
Critical Analysis Domain: The ability to synthesize and apply evidence-informed research and theory from a broad range of disciplines and health-related data sources to advance programs, policies, and systems promoting population health. - Interpret quantitative and qualitative data following current scientific standards.
- Synthesize information and derive pertinent implications from multiple sources for research and practice.
- Apply theoretical and evidence-informed perspectives from multiple disciplines in the design and implementation of programs, policies, and systems.
- Design needs and resource assessments for communities and populations.
- Translate research-informed approaches to public health practice
- Evaluate the performance and impact of health programs, policies, and systems
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This form shows all of the DrPH competencies along with the courses that meet these competencies. This table can be downloaded here: http://health.usf.edu/publichealth/pdf/DrPH-Table-of-Competencies-&-Courses.docx Cluster 1: Advocacy, Leadership, and Community Engagement Domains | Definitions | Benchmark Competency Knowledge/Comprehension | Milestone Competency Apply/Analyze | Capstone Competency Evaluate/Create | Advocacy | The ability to influence decision-making regarding policies, and practices that advance health using scientific knowledge, analysis, communication, and consensus building | Present positions on health issues, law, and policy in multiple sectors | Analyze the impact of legislation, judicial opinions, regulations, and policies on population health | Influence health policy and program decision making based on scientific evidence, stakeholder input, and public opinion data | Courses | PHC 6120 Community Partnerships and Advocacy (3cr) | PHC 7932 Practical Applications 1: Policy, Advocacy, and Public Health (1cr) | Practice-Based Mentorship Practice-Based Field Study (9cr) Practice-Based Dissertation (9cr) | Leadership | The ability to create and communicate a shared vision for a positive future; inspire trust and motivate others; and use evidence-informed contextually and culturally appropriate strategies to enhance essential public health services | Demonstrate a commitment to public health professional values | Influence others to achieve high standards of performance and accountability | Promote effective strategies to address the challenges presented to public health leadership Collaborate with multi-disciplinary researchers and practitioners | Courses | PHC 7103 Transforming Public Health Practice (3cr) | PHC 7149 Practical Applications II: Public Health Leadership (1cr) | Practice-Based Mentorship Practice-Based Field Study (9cr) Practice-Based Dissertation (9cr) | Communication | The ability to assess and use communication strategies across diverse audiences to inform and influence individual, organization, community, and policy actions | Discuss the inter-relationship between health communication and marketing | Prepare oral and written communications from briefs, position papers, scientific articles, community pieces Guide an organization in setting communication goals, objectives, priorities, and strategies | Integrate health literacy concepts in all communication and marketing initiatives | Courses | PHC 6411 Introduction to Social Marketing in Public Health (3cr) | PHC 7935 Risk Communication in Public Health (3cr) | Practice-Based Mentorship Practice-Based Field Study (9cr) Practice-Based Dissertation (9cr) | PHC 7934 Writing for Scholarly Publication in the Health Sciences (3cr) | PHC 7937 Advanced Seminar in Grant Writing (3cr) | Community/ Cultural Orientation | The ability to communicate, interact, engage and work with people across diverse communities and cultures for development of programs, policies, and research | Develop collaborative partnerships with communities, policy makers, and other relevant groups | Conduct community-based participatory intervention and research projects Engage communities in creating evidence-informed, culturally competent programs | Implement culturally and linguistically appropriate programs, services, and research | Courses | PHC 7103 Transforming Public Health Practice (3cr) | PHC 6412 Health Disparities & Social Determinants (3cr) | Practice-Based Mentorship Practice-Based Field Study (9cr) Practice-Based Dissertation (9cr) | PHC 6462 Cultural Competency in Public Health Practice (2cr) | PHC 6462 Cultural Competency in Public Health Practice (2cr) |
Cluster 2: Management and Ethics Domains | Definitions | Benchmark Competency Knowledge/Comprehension | Milestone Competency Apply/Analyze | Capstone Competency Evaluate/Create | Management | The ability to provide fiscally responsible strategic and operational guidance within both public and private health organizations for achieving individual and community health and wellness | Develop capacity-building strategies at the individual, organizational, and community level | Apply principles of human resource management Organize the work environment with defined lines of responsibility, authority, communication, and governance Implement strategic planning process Guide organizational decision making and planning based on internal and external environmental research | Evaluate organizational performance in relation to strategic and defined goals | Courses | PHC 7103 Transforming Public Health Practice (3cr) | PHC 6181 Organizational Behavior in Health Services (3cr) | Practice-Based Mentorship Practice-Based Field Study (9cr) Practice-Based Dissertation (9cr) | PHC 6104 Management of Public Health Programs (3cr) OR PHC 6146 Health Services Planning and Evaluation (3cr) | Professionalism and Ethics | The ability to identify and analyze an ethical issue; balance the claims of personal liberty with the responsibility to protect and improve the health of the population; and act on the ethical concepts of social justice and human rights in public health research and practice | Demonstrate cultural sensitivity in ethical discourse and analysis | Design strategies for resolving ethical concerns in research, law, and regulations | Develop tools that protect the privacy of individuals and communities involved in health programs, policies, and research | Courses | PHC 6412 Health Disparities & Social Determinants (3cr) OR PHC 6442 Global Health Applications in the Field (3cr) | PHC 6421 Public Health Law & Ethics (3cr) | Practice-Based Mentorship Practice-Based Field Study (9cr) Practice-Based Dissertation (9cr) |
Cluster 3: Evidence-informed Public Health Domains | Definitions | Benchmark Competency Knowledge/Comprehension | Milestone Competency Apply/Analyze | Capstone Competency Evaluate/Create | Critical Analysis | The ability to synthesize and apply evidence-informed research and theory from a broad range of disciplines and health-related data sources to advance programs, policies, and systems promoting population health | Interpret quantitative and qualitative data following current scientific standards Synthesize information and derive pertinent implications from multiple sources for research and practice | Apply theoretical and evidence-informed perspectives from multiple disciplines in the design and implementation of programs, policies, and systems Translate research-informed approaches to public health practice | Design needs and resource assessments for communities and populations Evaluate the performance and impact of health programs, policies, and systems | Courses | PHC 6063 Public Health Data, Information and Decision-Making (3cr) OR PHC 6442 Global Health Applications in the Field (3cr) | PHC 7154 Evidence-Informed Public Health: Part I (3cr) | Practice-Based Mentorship Practice-Based Field Study (9cr) Practice-Based Dissertation (9cr) | PHC 7610 Transforming Public Health Practice (3cr) | PHC 7156 Evidence-Informed Public Health: Part II (3cr) | PHC 7154 Evidence-Informed Public Health: Part I (3cr) |
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The syllabi for all DrPH courses can be found at this link: Course Listing . You can look to see what content, competencies, learning objectives, and assessments are offered in each course. |
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Marcia Conner: "In what is known as the 70/20/10 learning concept, 70% of learning and development takes place from real-life and on-the-job experiences, tasks, and problem solving, 20% of the time development comes from other people through informal or formal feedback, mentoring, or coaching, and10% of learning and development comes from formal training.” Our philosophy in the DrPH program is consistent with this quote. We know that you bring a myriad of knowledge, skills, and experience with you to our program. If you are fully prepared in an area, there is no need for you to take a course covering what you already know and do. However, you must establish this by providing convincing documentation substantiating your knowledge, skills, and experience. Any transfers, substitutions, or waivers must be approved by your Faculty Advisor. | Expand |
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| You can transfer up to 40% of the DrPH degree program from courses taken in other degree programs, or as a non-degree student. If you took those courses at USF prior to the DrPH degree, they still must be transferred in. First, you must follow a college-internal process for course transfer approval, and once approved, you must follow a USF process to get credit for those courses towards your degree. Any transferred courses have to be completed with a B grade, and the pre-requisite core courses cannot be transferred into the program. | Expand |
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| The process for getting your transfer courses approved is explained on the DrPH Course Transfer form: http://health.usf.edu/publichealth/pdf/DrPH-Course-Transfer-Form.docx. If your advisor approves, you can transfer courses to meet the core requirements, or you can transfer courses into the focus area. You have to fill out this form for each course you desire to transfer, and attach supporting documentation if required: - If you are transferring in the focus area, they will be approved if your Faculty Advisor agrees, but no justification of competencies or learning outcomes is required.
- If you are transferring into the core requirements, you must follow the process for showing that the courses you took included similar competencies and learning objectives as the required course.
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| All courses approved for transfer to USF must be submitted to USF on the following form: http://www.grad.usf.edu/inc/linked-files/transfer_course.pdf. You have to submit official transcripts to USF in order to have transfer courses processed by them, unless the courses were taken at USF. |
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| The process for waiving a required course is explained on the DrPH Prior Learning form: http://health.usf.edu/publichealth/pdf/DrPH-Prior-Learning-Waiver-Form.docx. You can waive a course if your advisor approves, and you can document, with evidence, that you have any combination of experience or learning that meets all of the competencies and learning outcomes of the required course you want to waive. |
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Marcia Conner: "In what is known as the 70/20/10 learning concept, 70% of learning and development takes place from real-life and on-the-job experiences, tasks, and problem solving, 20% of the time development comes from other people through informal or formal feedback, mentoring, or coaching, and10% of learning and development comes from formal training.” Our philosophy in the DrPH program is consistent with this quote. We know that you bring a myriad of knowledge, skills, and experience with you to our program. If you are fully prepared in an area, there is no need for you to take a course covering what you already know and do. However, you must establish this by providing convincing documentation substantiating your knowledge, skills, and experience. Any transfers, substitutions, or waivers must be approved by your Faculty Advisor. |
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