School of Public Health, University at Albany

SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH, UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY

PLAN OF STUDY FOR MASTER OF PUBLIC HEALTH DEGREE

Track: Preventive Medicine – General

TOTAL CREDITS FOR MPH DEGREE = 51 HOURS MINIMUM, or 42 credits with a 9 credit internship waiver.

Name of Resident: ______

Area of Concentration: PREVENTIVE MEDICINE – GENERAL TRACK

Name of MPH / PMR Advisor: ______

CREDIT REQUIREMENTS: 42 course credits (33 taken/9 transferred in) + 9 internship credits waived (PMR practicum rotations will count toward the MPH internships)

I. CORE COURSES (18 credits):

Course / Course Title / Credits / GRADE / YEAR TAKEN
BMS 505 / Biological Basis of Public Health / Transferred in ( see below)
EPI 501 / Principles and Methods of Epidemiology I / 3 / ______/ ______
EPI 551 / Principles Statistical Inference I (or EPI552) / 3 / ______/ ______
EHS 590 / Introduction to Environmental Health / 3 / ______/ ______
HPM 500 / Health Care Organization, Financing & Delivery / 3 / ______/ ______
HPM 525 / Social & Behavioral Aspects of Public Health / 3 / ______/ ______
SPH 680 / First Year MPH Seminar (1cr/sem x two semesters) / 2 (total) / ______/ ______
SPH 685 / Capstone MPH Seminar / 1 / ______/ ______
SUBTOTAL I: (excludes BMS505 since included in transferred in credits) / 18

II. REQUIRED COURSES FOR AREA OF CONCENTRATION (15 credits):

Course / Course Title / Credits / GRADE / YEAR TAKEN
SPH 603 / Advanced Topics in Preventive Medicine / 3 / ______/ ______
A Quantitative/Analytic Course (3cr) (see list of options below):
______/ ______/ 3 / ______/ ______

Three elective courses (9 credits) (see list of suggested electives below):

______ / ______ / ______ / ______ / ______
______ / ______ / ______ / ______ / ______
______ / ______ / ______ / ______ / ______
9
SUBTOTAL II: 15
CREDITS TAKEN (I+II): 33
III. TRANSFERRED IN CREDITS (9 credits):
COURSE(S) TRANSFERRED IN TO SUBSTITUTE FOR BMS 505:1
Institution / Course Title / Credits / Date of Transfer Request
______ / ______ / ______ / ______
______ / ______ / ______ / ______
3
COURSES TRANSFERRED IN TO SUBSTITUTE FOR TWO MPH ELECTIVES:1 (in addition to BMS 505):
Institution / Course Title / Credits / Date of Transfer Request
______ / ______ / ______ / ______
______ / ______ / ______ / ______
CREDITS TRANSFERRED (III):
TOTAL CREDITS (I+II+III):
/ 6
9
42

1 Transfer credit (transferring in credits without having to take another course) and course waivers (transferring in credits with having to take an upper level course) must be accompanied by an approved petition showing that a comparable graduate course was completed at another institution. Up to 9 total credits are allowed to be transferred in.

III-a. ADDITIONAL COURSES TAKEN (if any):
Course Title / Credits / Year Taken
______ / ______ / ______
______ /
______ / ______
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TOTAL CREDITS (III-a): /
______ / ______

IV. INTERNSHIPS (9 credits): PM residents waive all 9 internship credits on the basis of past public health experience and/or PMR practicum rotations:

For internship waiver credit, submit a waiver petition including a full description of previous public health experience to the Internship Subcommittee for approval. The waiver petition must be submitted to PMR program no later than February 15 of the practicum year and will be forwarded to SPH Waiver Committee for final approval.

List of Quantitative/Analytic Courses (choose 1):

EPI 502 Principles and Methods of Epidemiology II

EPI 553 Principles of Statistical Inference II (prerequisite EPI 552)

HPM550 Financial Management

HPM 511 Economic Analysis

HPM 520 Fundamentals of Research Design

HPM 570 International Health Economics

HPM 647 Program Evaluation

HPM 635 Economic Evaluation in Health care

List of Suggested Electives (choose 2):

BMS 622 Cancer Biology

EPI 613 Occupational & Environmental Epidemiology

EPI 624 Genetic Epidemiology

HPM 626 Social & Behavioral Aspects of Chronic Illness

BMS 505 Biological Basis of Public Health

EPI 605 Infectious Disease Epidemiology

EPI 609 Reproductive Epidemiology

EPI 610 AIDS Epidemiology

HPM 501 Policy Analysis

HPM 521 Preventing Death, Disease and Disability

HPM 535 Community Based Public Health

HPM 627 Program Development in Health Promotion

SPH 569 Public Health Leadership

SPH 589 Emergency Preparedness: The Public Health Perspective

Additional quantitative/analytic courses from list above.

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Student Signature Date

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Advisor’s Signature Date

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