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MPH Practicum

 

The Practicum Experience:

 

The Colorado School of Public Health is committed to providing students with practical experience in public health settings.  The MPH practicum experience is intended to support student growth, both personally and professionally while connecting and contributing to community needs.  The experience is intended to provide students an opportunity to develop professional skills by leading a project in a public health setting that contributes to an unmet need of the host site. 

 

The goals of the practicum are to:

  • Apply classroom theory, knowledge, skills and techniques to a professional work setting;
  • Enhance and develop new skills needed to function as a professional in a public health setting;
  • Work on a specifically defined public health problem or issue project that is salient to the preceptor site;
    Participate in a setting that allows the student to explore future career decisions;
  • Engage in professional self-assessment and personal reflection;
  • Build a personal network of professional leaders in public health;
  • Connect with local and state public health agencies, other community-based organizations, and  community-based participatory research projects which serve the public’s health to create support for the public health community and future recruitment opportunities.
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    Practicum Prerequisites:

     

    In order to sign up for a practicum experience students must do the following:

    1) Successfully complete the Foundations of Public Health Course
    2) Successfully complete one -year of academic requirements
    3) Gain approval of their concentration director

  • Applied Biostatistics Lorri.Ogden@ucdenver.edu
  • Community & Behavioral Health Lori.Crane@ucdenver.edu
  • Community Health Education Deborah.Givray@unco.edu
  • Environmental & Occupational Health Jill.Litt@ucdenver.edu
  • Epidemiology Marci.Sontag@ucdenver.edu
  • Health Systems, Management, & Policy Lucinda.Bryant@ucdenver.edu
  • Generalist (UC Denver) - Jack.Barnette@ucdenver.edu
  • Generalist (CSU) - Lorann.Stallones@ColoState.edu
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