Undergraduate Public Health Education: Is There an Ideal Curriculum?

Frontiers in Public Health

Leonard H. Friedman¹ 

关键词: undergraduate students;    undergraduate public health education;    public health;    curriculum;    education;    medical;    competencies;    BSPH;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpubh.2015.00016

学科分类：卫生学

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

This commentary speaks to the need to design a curriculum that best meets the needs of students who are enrolled in Bachelor of Science in Public Health (BSPH) degree programs. The past 10 years has witnessed a dramatic growth in the number and size of these programs. While several of these degrees are housed within schools and colleges of public health, many are located in colleges of arts and science, allied health, medicine, and many other academic homes. It is difficult to determine the actual number of BSPH programs (or similar type degrees but with different names) due to a lack of national accrediting standard. The number of students in these programs varies widely with as few as 25 to as many as 600. In addition to stand-alone BSPH degrees, there are a number of what is known in the field as three plus two programs where a student spends 3 years completing their undergraduate courses and then an additional 2 years of study that completes both their BS degree in addition to their Master of Public Health (MPH).

【 授权许可】

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