ELEC 8178 - Public Health Practicum: Elective I, II, and III [for SOMA DO/MPH dual degree program only]

4 credit hours

The SOMA Public Health Practicum requires completion of a project in an approved supervised public health setting emphasizing public health policy and/or management. This course is only open to SOMA DO/MPH students. Students will have a one-month Elective involving intense study in a public health area of their choice.

The student must be registered in the CGHS MPH874 during the time of the SOMA Public Health Practicum Elective. The student will obtain a CGHS advisor and will identify their Practicum site, location and preceptor. The one month SOMA Practicum Elective will be spent at that site. The student will begin logging hours towards the practicum as he or she works on their literature review prior to the start of this one-month Elective.

The student may not take the Elective until their practicum proposal is approved by the course director from SOMA and the practicum faculty advisor from the CGHS. The proposal for any projects that involve human subjects must also be submitted to the ATSU institutional review board. The student must also have a preceptor on location and a faculty advisor from the School of Health Management. The course director can serve as the faculty advisor from SOMA, but a SCGHS faculty advisor is also required.

A formal write up of the experience in the form of a scholarly paper or innovations project paper is required for completion of the Elective. The student will also be required to present an oral report. It may be required that the ‘oral report’ be recorded electronically.