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In addition to coursework, the DrPH program includes requirements for applied practice experiences and integrated learning experiences. While you are completing your required coursework for the DrPH program, you can work on the applied practice experiences that will develop your public health practice skills. Once you finish the coursework, you will integrate your learning by taking a qualifying examination and producing a practice-based doctoral project.
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DrPH Applied Practice Experiences (APE)
All DrPH students will engage in one or more practice-based experiences. The applied practice experiences (APE) should develop the student’s advanced practice and leadership skills and knowledge through completion of meaningful projects for public health organizations, including government, non-government, non-profit, industrial, and for-profit settings. These can include the student’s own work setting, or another setting that the student selects, and the student must identify a mentor in the organization who will guide the student during these experiences.
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| title | Here is the table of courses and competencies for each concentration in the DrPH. You must use the competency list that applies to your concentration for your APE requirement. At present there is only one concentration: Advanced Practice Leadership in Public Health
DrPH Courses and Competencies 2017.docx
DrPH Courses and Competencies: Advanced Practice Leadership in Public Health Fall 2017, that is effective in Fall 2017. We are also developing a second concentration: Public Health Laboratory Science and Practice, which will be submitted for Fall 2018 approval. We will post those documents as they become available. Students who are admitted to a particular catalog year can select a different catalog year later on, and may request to change their concentration as concentrations become available. The mechanism to make this change can be found here: Archivum Change of Concentration.
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DrPH Courses and Competencies 2017.docx This list is accurate but incomplete at present. Two additional courses were added to the curriculum for Fall 2017, but the competencies have not been firmly established. This list is sufficient for all competency-related requirements (applied practice experiences, doctoral project). DrPH Courses and Competencies: Advanced Practice Leadership in Public Health Fall 2017 COURSES (22 credits) | F=CEPH FOUNDATIONAL COMPETENCIES | C=APL CONCENTRATION COMPETENCIES | Cluster 1: Community Engagement | PHC 7103 Transforming PH Practice 3 credits | F6. Integrate knowledge, approaches, methods, values and potential contributions from multiple professions and systems in addressing public health problems F9. Promote equity within public health programs, policies and systems F14. Design a system-level intervention to address a public health issue F17. Propose interprofessional team approaches to improving public health C1. Demonstrate a commitment to public health professional values C2. Demonstrate holistic thinking ability and understanding of the inter-connectivity of system elements | PHC 7932 Policy & Advocacy 1 credit | F5. Communicate public health science to diverse stakeholders, including individuals at all levels of health literacy, for purposes of influencing behavior and policies F16. Integrate scientific information, legal and regulatory approaches, ethical frameworks and varied stakeholder interests in policy development and analysis | PHC 7935 Health Disparities/ Cultural Competency 1 credit | F4. Propose strategies for health improvement and elimination of health inequities by organizing stakeholders, including researchers, practitioners, community leaders and other partners F10. Propose strategies to promote inclusion and equity within public health programs, policies and systems | Cluster 2: Leadership and Management | PHC 7935 Org Behavior in PH Systems 3 credits | F7. Create a strategic plan F8. Facilitate shared decision making through negotiation and consensus-building methods F9. Create organizational change strategies F12. Propose human, fiscal and other resources to achieve a strategic goal F13. Cultivate new resources and revenue streams to achieve a strategic goal F17. Propose interprofessional team approaches to improving public health | PHC 7149 Leadership in PH 1 credit | F11. Assess one’s own strengths and weaknesses in leadership capacities, including cultural proficiency C3. Influence others to achieve high standards of performance and accountability | Cluster 3: Communication and Education | PHC 7934 Writing for Pub 3 credits | F5. Communicate public health science to diverse stakeholders, including individuals at all levels of health literacy, for purposes of influencing behavior and policies C5. Communicate public health research, policy, or practice in a scholarly paper suitable for publication in a recognized journal | PHC 7935 Innov. Educ. in PH 1 credit | F18. Assess an audience’s knowledge and learning needs F19. Deliver training or educational experiences that promote learning in academic, organizational or community settings F20. Use best practice modalities in pedagogical practices | Cluster 4: Evidence-Informed Public Health | PHC 6411 Intro to Social Mktg 3 credits | C6. Use concepts and methods from social and behavioral sciences in the design and implementation of community health research and intervention programs | PHC 7154 Evidence-Informed PH 1 3 credits | F1. Explain qualitative, quantitative, mixed methods and policy analysis research and evaluation methods to address health issues at multiple (individual, group, organization, community and population) levels F3. Explain the use and limitations of surveillance systems and national surveys in assessing, monitoring and evaluating policies and programs and to address a population’s health | PHC 7156 Evidence-Informed PH 2 3 credits | F2. Design a qualitative, quantitative, mixed methods, policy analysis or evaluation project to address a public health issue F6. Integrate knowledge, approaches, methods, values and potential contributions from multiple professions and systems in addressing public health problems F15. Integrate knowledge of cultural values and practices in the design of public health policies and programs C4. Translate research-informed approaches to public health practice |
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DrPH Qualifying Examination & Admission to Candidacy
USF requirement: As soon as the substantial majority of the course work is completed, the student must pass a written qualifying examination covering the subject matter in the major and related fields. This examination may be supplemented by an oral examination. Students must be enrolled for a minimum of two (2) hours of graduate credit in their discipline at the time they take the qualifying examination. If the exam is taken between semesters, students must be enrolled for a minimum of two (2) hours of graduate credit in the semester before or following the exam.
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| When all required coursework is satisfactorily completed (including tools of research and prerequisites), the student must pass a written comprehensive qualifying examination covering the subject matter in the major and related fields. Exam questions will be generated by the DrPH Admissions and Advisory Committee. The exam will be administered and evaluated by the student’s DrPH Dissertation Committee. Results of the written exam will be communicated in writing to the student within 15 working days of the examination. If all or part of the exam is failed, the student will have one more opportunity to retake the exam. After successful completion of the qualifying exam and appropriate paperwork is submitted to and approved by the Office of Graduate Studies, the student is admitted to candidacy and may register for dissertation hours in the semester following Office of Graduate Studies approval. |
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| When all required the majority of the student's coursework is satisfactorily completed, the student must pass a written qualifying examination covering the subject matter in their DrPH concentration. The exam qualifying examination. The student is required to submit a concept paper describing the proposed doctoral project, followed by an oral examination that relates the content, approach, and deliverables of the project to the DrPH curriculum domains in the student's concentration. The examination will be administered and evaluated by the student’s DrPH Dissertation Committee. After successful completion of the qualifying exam and appropriate paperwork is submitted to and approved by the Office of Graduate Studies, the student is admitted to candidacy and may register for dissertation hours in the semester following Office of Graduate Studies approval. doctoral project committee. The student must enroll in at least two credits in the semester the exam is completed. Please note that a DrPH student should not submit the "Admission to Candidacy" form to USF–it is not required in this program. Instead, the student must submit a DrPH-specific form: DrPH Qualifying Exam |
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- The student must complete a dissertation that is designed to influence programs, policies, or systems addressing public health practice. The dissertation must also demonstrate synthesis of competencies across all domains in the student's concentration, as follows:
- Advanced Practice Leadership in Public Health:
- Community Engagement
- Leadership and Management
- Communication and Education
- Evidence-Informed Public Health
- When the majority of the student’s coursework is satisfactorily completed, the student must pass a qualifying examination. The student is required to submit a concept paper describing the proposed dissertation project, followed by an oral examination that relates the content, approach, and deliverables of the project to the DrPH curriculum domains in the student’s concentration. The examination will be administered and evaluated by the student’s doctoral project committee. The student must enroll in at least two credits in the semester the exam is completed.
- The concept paper will be initially developed in the Evidence-Informed Public Health 2 course. The student should then work with the Major Professor and other committee members as needed on completing the concept paper prior to submission for evaluation.
- Once approved by the Major Professor, the student will notify the committee members of intention to be examined on the concept paper, and will schedule the oral examination with the committee members at a mutually agreeable time. The oral examination can take place via electronic means of communication if the student is unable to be physically present at the Tampa campus. The student must submit the final draft of the concept paper to the committee members a minimum of two weeks prior to the scheduled oral examination.
- The oral examination will consist of questions and clarification on the content, approach, and deliverables of the proposal, as well as questions on how the proposal demonstrates synthesis of competencies across the domains in the student's concentration. Typical questions for the concentration in Advanced Practice Leadership in Public Health could include:
- How does the proposed project engage the community? Explain how your content, approach, and deliverables are grounded in your knowledge of community engagement.
- How does the proposed project develop the leadership skills or management goals of yourself or others connected to your project? Explain how your content, approach, and deliverables are grounded in your knowledge of the development of leadership skills, and how organizations and systems are managed.
- How does the proposed project provide for the communication and education needed for transforming public health practice? Explain how your content, approach, and deliverables are grounded in your knowledge of communicationa and education in public health practice.
- How are the approach, procedures, and deliverables of your project evidence-based? Explain how your content, approach, and deliverables are grounded in research evidence and methodology, and/or in evidence-based program or policy evaluation or program delivery methods.
- The committee members will verify satisfactory completion of the qualifying examination by providing their signature on the Admission to Candidacy form, within one week of completion of the qualifying examination. After submitting the Admission to Candidacy form to Graduate Studies and obtaining approval, the student will be eligible to enroll in PHC 7910: Dissertation in a subsequent semester.
- If the student's research involves human subjects, the student is responsible for applying for review by the appropriate IRB review board before proceeding with the proposed work.
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