Develop your practice, integrate your learning, and graduate!
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 field-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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COPH FORM: DrPH Applied Practice Experience Form.docx Purpose & Setting: All DrPH students will engage in one or more practice-based experiences. The applied practice experiences 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. Please see the section on Practice-Based Mentors. Process: While attending each DrPH Institute, the student will start a proposal for an applied practice experience. The student will then work with their faculty advisor and an identified mentor to develop a complete proposal for the competencies, learning objectives, activities, and deliverables required for each applied practice experience. The final proposal must be approved by the student, the faculty advisor, the mentor, and the DrPH Director. Competencies: The student is expected to achieve demonstrated growth in at least five of the DrPH competencies throughout the series of practice experiences, and at least one competency must relate to leadership or management. The student will identify the targeted competencies for each applied practice experience in their proposal, drawn from the competencies specified in the list of DrPH Courses and Competencies for their concentration. The experiences proposed to meet these competencies can be done in a single large project, or several smaller projects, and can be spread across multiple semesters; this depends on the objectives, activities, and deliverables of each practice experience. Learning Objectives: In consultation with the faculty advisor and mentor, the student will identify the learning goals for the applied practice experiences based on the competencies targeted. The student will honestly assess their experience and build upon any limitations to enhance the skills and knowledge needed as an advanced professional, or to inform the doctoral project the student would like to pursue. Carefully considering the additional experiences needed to round out the student’s skills and practical knowledge is primary, along with ensuring that opportunities are included to enhance leadership skills. Activities: Details of the practice activities are developed and agreed to jointly by the student, mentor, and faculty advisor. This represents the heart of the three-way agreement that is integral to developing practice experience. It is necessary to describe the specific actions, projects, processes, and tasks that will allow the student to meet the chosen competencies and objectives. Activities should take the form of statements that begin with action verbs, that are specific, measurable, and time-limited. The student should also state the expected dates for involvement in and completion of the activities, including a temporal view of the entire lifetime of each proposed activity. Deliverables: The proposal must include deliverables that both meet the needs of the organization, and demonstrate reflection on development of the stated competencies and fulfillment of the learning objectives. This may require more than one deliverable (e.g., the completed project for the organization plus a reflection on competencies and learning objectives achieved). The student should consider what type of deliverables are appropriate for the organization, whether a report on activities performed, a summary of data collected and analyzed, tests from training sessions, etc. Evaluation: The practice site mentor provides guidance on an ongoing basis, and assists the student with the project deliverables as needed. The student will submit the final deliverables to the faculty advisor, who will provide a final evaluation of the quality and achievement of the deliverables, and whether the student met the stated learning objectives. The deliverables, reflection paper, and signed evaluation must also be submitted to Academic and Student Affairs at cophpermits@health.usf.edu, and the student must upload a copy into their student Box folder at this link: https://usfhealth.account.box.com/login.the DrPH Director for final review and approval. |
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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, 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. To change their concentration, students must complete and submit the USF Change of Graduate Concentration form to cophdoctoral@usf.edu.
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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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Please look at the descriptor that applies to the catalog you will graduate under.
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DrPH Qualifying Exam Completion Form: DrPH Qual Exam Completion Form.docx
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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. |
DrPH Doctoral Project
After successfully completing the qualifying examination, the student must complete a field-based doctoral project that is designed to influence programs, policies, or systems applicable to public health practice. The doctoral project must include a minimum of three high-quality, evidence-based deliverables, with at least one written product. The doctoral project must also demonstrate synthesis of competencies across all DrPH curriculum domains in the student's concentration.
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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The DrPH student must complete a doctoral project that is designed to influence programs, policies, or systems applicable to public health practice. For example, the student can propose to implement and evaluate a project in the field, adapt an evidence-based program to be used on a local level, do a behavioral, economic, or policy analysis, or evaluate a public health intervention. The student must produce a minimum of three high-quality, evidence-based deliverables, with at least one written product. These can be presented in any form that is acceptable to the committee members. Examples of types of deliverables include the following:
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Institutional Review Board Approval (IRB) All research investigators at USF are responsible for making the initial determination as to whether their research will involve human subjects as defined in the Quick Start Guide for Investigators (2004), available online at http://www.research.usf.edu/cs/quickstart.htm. When it is not clear whether the research involves human subjects, research investigators must seek assistance from the USF Office of Research. If it is determined that human subjects are involved, the investigator is responsible for applying for review by the appropriate IRB. This task is accomplished by research investigators preparing a protocol giving a complete description of the proposed research, a detailed application and, when appropriate, a sample of the proposed informed consent form. All forms can be found online at http://www.research.usf.edu/dric/ As a part of the application process, the student should ensure that adequate scientific review of the research study has been performed, via the student's signature, the major professor's signature, and the signature of the DrPH Program Director or designee before the IRB form is forwarded. All doctoral students must complete the IRB training during their first semester following admission. IRB training courses are available online at http://www.research.usf.edu/dric/ |
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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:
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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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Students may only use the credential of “DrPH” after degree conferral is granted. It is inappropriate to use the credential until it is officially and formally granted. |
USF Graduation
To graduate, a student must submit the Application for Degree. This application must be submitted in the term of expected graduation by the deadline noted in the academic calendar. If a student applies for graduation and is not approved, a new Application for Degree must be submitted by the deadline in a new term. In order for the degree statement to appear on a student’s academic record, the student must file the aforementioned application whether or not participation in the commencement ceremony is desired.
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Doctoral degrees must be completed within seven (7) years from the student’s original date of admission for doctoral study. All courses applied to the doctoral degree must be completed within seven (7) years, including courses taken
prior to admission to the USF doctoral program,
taken as non‐degree seeking, or
transferred in from other institutions.
In the event that a student nears the end of the time limitation as specified above, but the student needs more time to complete the degree, the student may submit a request for an extension using the Time Limit Extension Request Form, available on the Office of Graduate Studies website. Requests must include:
the reasons for the delay in completion,
the anticipated time needed for completion,
endorsements from the graduate faculty advisor, graduate program, and College Dean or designee,
a detailed plan of study and timeline for the remaining requirements for the degree
If approved, the time limit extension also applies to courses applied toward the degree. However, programs may require additional or repeat coursework as part of the condition of the time limit extension. Students who exceed the time limitations may have their registration placed on hold until a request for extension has been approved. Only one time limit extension request is permitted. Students who are temporarily unable to continue the program should submit a Leave of Absence Request, which extends the time limit for the duration of the approved Leave.
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The Application for a Graduate Degree is an online process done in Oasis. The application must be submitted to the College advising office prior to the graduation application deadline. Inquiries concerning approval or denial of graduation should be made to the appropriate college. It is the student’s responsibility to clear all “I” (Incomplete) and “M” (Missing) grades in all courses and to provide official transcripts of all transferred course work needed for graduation at least three weeks prior to the end of the term in which he/she expects to graduate. |
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Graduate students may not participate in commencement exercises until all requirements for the degree sought have been fulfilled. All doctoral graduates receive degree conferral from the Tampa campus. Diplomas are mailed to the student’s permanent address approximately six (6) weeks after commencement. Students with a change of address need to fill out a change of address form at the Registrar’s office. Questions regarding diplomas and degree certification should be directed to the Registrar’s office at 974‐2000. |
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