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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 practicefield-based doctoral project.


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DrPH Applied Practice Experiences (APE)

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titleUse of "c" in Degree Acronyms

The College of Public Health does not permit students who are pursuing masters or doctoral degrees to use the degree acronym after their names and a small “c” for candidate. In other words, students are not permitted to use MPHc, MSPHc, MHA, PhDc, or DrPHc. If students, after successfully completing the qualifying exam for the doctoral degree wish to put after their name the words “master degree candidate” or “doctoral degree candidate*” – we allow this. The use of the degree acronym and small “c” creates confusion for faculty, employers, and other individuals who are reviewing students’ CVs and other materials. It creates a situation wherein a student appears to have earned a degree when such is not the case. As a degree‐granting College, we do not allow this.

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To complete the doctoral project, the student will be required to enroll in a minimum of six credits in PHC 7908 Specialized Field Study. The final doctoral project deliverables must be approved by the doctoral project committee prior to graduation, and the student must be enrolled in a minimum of two credits in the semester the doctoral project is completed and approved.

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titleDoctoral Project Defense

Information on requirements for submission of the finished and approved manuscript copies is available online at the Thesis and Dissertation website. Students who fail to submit the final copy of a dissertation by the posted submission deadline will not be considered for graduation. The student may be considered for graduation in the following semester and must therefore apply for the degree (graduation) by the posted deadline, enroll in a minimum of two (2) dissertation hours for that subsequent semester, and meet the submission requirements as posted on the Thesis/Dissertation website. Only after the Office of Graduate Studies has approved the manuscript can the student be certified for the degree. 

Students are required to submit the dissertation in an electronic format (ETD). Requirements and procedures are available at the Office of Graduate Studies website. All theses/dissertations will be submitted to the Office of Graduate Studies designated System for official publication and archiving. Once a dissertation is approved and accepted by the Office of Graduate Studies for publication, it cannot be changed. 

DrPH Doctoral Project Defense Announcement: DrPH Doctoral Project Defense Announcement.docx

DrPH Doctoral Project Defense Completion Form: DrPH Doctoral Project Defense Form.docx

After the Doctoral Committee has determined that the doctoral project is suitable for presentation, the committee will request the scheduling and announcement of a public doctoral project oral defense. Procedures for conducting the doctoral project defense are as follows:

  1. The doctoral project defense should be conducted at the latest by one month prior to the end of the semester in which the student would like to graduate.

  2. The presentation should be considered an important function and all graduate students and faculty be encouraged to attend. The presentation and defense are open to the public and as such, must meet the requirements of the Sunshine Laws for the State of Florida. The doctoral committee deliberation is not public.

  3. The room selected for the examination should have adequate seating with an alternate room selected in case of problems.

  4. Participation of the student and/or external mentor is permissible via speakerphone or video conference.

  5. The length of the examination period will generally not exceed three hours. Throughout this time the Faculty Chair is to be in charge of all proceedings.

  6. The Faculty Chair, at any time during the course of the examination, may request all visitors to leave.

  7. Presentation:

    • The Faculty Chair should open the proceedings by introducing the candidate and the doctoral committee.

    • The examination should begin with a presentation by the candidate designed to summarize the doctoral project.

  2. Questions: Following the presentation the student will be questioned about the doctoral project. The order of the proceedings is described below:

    • The examination will consist of questions about the research by the doctoral committee.

    • It is suggested that questioning should be limited to about 15 minutes for each committee member with subsequent rounds of questioning as necessary.

    • Questions from the faculty‐at‐large and/or the public may be allowed following the presentation. It is suggested that questioning from the general audience be limited up to 5 minutes per person.

  3. Deliberations and Voting: Following the completion of these proceedings, the Faculty Chair:

    • will ask all visitors and the candidate to leave and will re‐convene the doctoral committee only.

    • will preside over the deliberations and voting of the doctoral committee.

    • is responsible for tallying the votes and informing the candidate of the final decision. The voting is to be limited to “pass” and “fail” votes. The vote of the doctoral committee must be unanimous. If unanimous agreement cannot be reached, the Faculty Chair notifies the DrPH Program Director, who will endeavor to resolve the dispute in an expedient fashion.

    • withholds his/her own signature on the DrPH Doctoral Defense From until all required revisions are satisfactory.

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    titleDoctoral Project Final Submission
      • Prior to the defense, the student must fill out the Doctoral Project Defense Form with the following information:
        • required student information
        • description of the doctoral project deliverables
        • list of the DrPH competencies that the project synthesizes (minimum five)
      • After a successful defense, the student should obtain signatures from all committee members other than the Faculty Chair(s). The Faculty Chair will sign once all revisions are completed an accepted.
      • The signed form must be submitted prior to the end of the semester to Academic and Student Affairs at cophpermits@health.usf.edu, and uploaded to the student's document folder in Box: https://usfhealth.account.box.com/login.
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    titleDoctoral Project Final Submission

    Students are required to submit all doctoral project deliverables electronically, emailed to the committee members, emailed to the Office of Academic and Student Affairs at cophpermits@health.usf.edu, and uploaded to the students documents folder in Box: https://usfhealth.account.box.com/login. This must be completed prior to graduation.

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    titleUse of PhD in Credentials and Publication

    Students may only use the credential of “Ph.D.” after degree conferral is granted. It is inappropriate to use the credential until it is officially and formally granted. The use of the abbreviation “Ph.D.” in university publications, correspondence, etc., including websites and other electronic media, shall be upper case “P”, lower case “h” followed by a period, an upper case “D” and another period. It shall not be used in the format of all upper case letters without periods, as in “PHD”. 

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