Summer Session for Public Health Studies
Practicum and Culminating Experience
This opportunity permits a field practicum wherein students can apply techniques acquired from the classroom to active investigations. The primary goal of this program is to provide students with the broad-based competencies needed to perform these investigations. Finally, all students must present the results of their projects in a capstone seminar held during the last summer of their program.
Clinical Effectiveness (CLE)
For students in the concentration in Clinical Effectiveness, an
off-site practicum will be developed whereby students complete an
applied research project at their home institution under the
supervision of a local mentor and a member of the faculty at HSPH. The
nature of the projects should be relevant to student's goals. These
projects may include aspects of clinical epidemiology, health services
research or quality improvement.
Quantitative Methods (QM)
The practicum for the Quantitative Methods Concentration will follow
the same guidelines and will focus on a variety of quantitative public
health subjects. The practice will provide students with a culminating
experience that combines work during the year primarily between Summer
II and Summer III with contact with fellow students via e-mail and
study groups.