Description
This course is designed for MPH students to complete their culminating public health integrative learning experience, and is comprised of two main components: (1) a written comprehensive exam; and (2) a public health professional development activity. The MPH comprehensive exams are designed to evaluate students' ability to apply foundational public health knowledge and skills developed in the MPH core courses to novel contexts, problems and populations. Through an essay-based comprehensive exam, MPH students will produce a high-quality written product tath is appropraite for their educaiton and professional objectives, and that demonstrates critical thinking, and integration of at least two public health foundational competencies and a least one MPH core competency. In addition, students will be expected to complete one public health professional development activity which may include passing a national certification exam (the National Board of Public Helath Examiners Certified in Pub