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Coordinated MD (School of Medicine)/MPH (Health Behavior)
The Coordinated MD (School of Medicine)/MPH (Health Behavior) degree program is offered with the University of Alabama School of Medicine. This program enables students to obtain a General MPH with a focus in Health Behavior simultaneously with a MD. The MPH degree requires a minimum of 42 credit hours.
Admissions: Students are admitted separately to the MPH and MD degree programs and must meet admission requirements in both the School of Public Health and the School of Medicine.
Curriculum: Students must complete a minimum of 42 semester hours of credit for the MPH degree, which includes eight credit hours of required Medicine course work. Nineteen credits in the School of Public Health meet the requirements for core courses in the Master of Public Health program and provide a strong knowledge base in epidemiology, biostatistics, health behavior, environmental health sciences and health care organization and policy. Twenty-three additional credits (15 Health Behavior credit hours and 8 Medicine credit hours) meet the requirements for the Health Behavior focus in the School of Public Health. If a coordinated degree student drops out of the MD program, he/she must apply for transfer to the MPH Health Behavior track.
MD/MPH Program Objectives
The Coordinated MD (School of Medicine)/MPH (Health Behavior) degree program specifies that Health Behavior graduates will learn to effectively apply state of the art:
· social and behavioral science theories as they relate to public health;
· program evaluation principles and skills to the assessment of health promotion and disease prevention program outcomes and the clinical and community levels; and
· social/behavioral research methods to the design and implementation of clinical and community-based intervention/prevention programs.
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Credit Hours |
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MPH Core (including the Integrative Experience) |
19 |
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BST 600 |
Biostatistics for Public Health |
4 |
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ENH 600 |
Fundamentals of Environmental Health Sciences |
3 |
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EPI 600 |
Introduction to Epidemiology |
3 |
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HB 600 |
Social and Behavioral Science Core |
3 |
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HCO 600 |
Introduction to Public Health Systems and Population-Based Health Programs |
3 |
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MCH 695 |
The Public Health Integrative Experience |
3 |
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Health Behavior Track |
15 |
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BST 619 |
Date Collection |
3 |
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HB 602 |
Alcohol & Drug Abuse |
3 |
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HB 611 |
Mental Illness as a Public Health Issues |
3 |
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HB 624 |
Advanced Theory |
3 |
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HB 641 |
Research Methods in Behavioral Science |
3 |
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HB 643 |
Health Program Evaluation |
3 |
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Required SOM Curriculum |
8 |
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PUH 697 |
Public Health Practice Internship |
8 |
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MPH Total 42 |
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