PhD - Population Health Science

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Plan of Study

General Track

Year 1 - Fall
PHS 700	Essentials of Population Health Science	3
PHS 702	Statistical Methods in Research	3
PHS 703	Epidemiology I	3
PHS 731	Social Determinants of Health	3
Total		12
Year 1 - Spring
PHS 704	Epidemiology II	3
PHS 712	Science Communication and Dissemination	3
PHS 742	Multivariate Regression	3
PHS 750	Population Health Research Methods	3
Total		12
Year 2 - Summer
PHS 718	Proseminar*	3
PHS 747	Survey Development Qualitative Methods and Analysis	3
Total		6
Year 2 - Fall
PHS 701	Applied Demography	3
PHS 714	U.S. Healthcare Organizations and Delivery*	3
PHS 717	Health Behavior Theory	3
PHS 753	Systems Science and Population Health	3
Total		12
Year 2 - Spring
PHS 713	Implementation Science	3
PHS 743	Program Evaluation for Pop-level Intervention	3
PHS 744	Bioethics and Society	2
PHS 749	Advanced Statistics in Population Health	3
Total		11
Year 3 - Summer
PHS 740	Grant Writing	3
Q-Exam	Qualifying Exam	0
Total		3
Year 3 - Fall
PHS 799	Doctoral Proposal Development	6
Total		6
Year 3 - Spring
PHS 799	Doctoral Proposal Development	6
Total		6
Year 4 - Summer
PHS 798	Doctoral Dissertation Research	1
Total		1
Year 4 - Fall
PHS 798	Doctoral Dissertation Research	1
Total		1
Year 4 - Spring +
PHS 798	Doctoral Dissertation Research	1
Total		1
May be offered every other year *Electives: With the approval of the advisor and program director, students can choose from the following elective options: PHS 722 Health Information Visualization (3 credit hours) PHS 745 Community Engagement and Community-based Participatory Research (3 credit hours) PHS 746 Systemic Review, Meta-analysis, and Evidence Synthesis (3 credit hours) PHS 748 Spatial Analysis and Geographic Information Systems for Population Health (3 credit hours) PHS 760 Health Economics (3 credit hours) PHS 761 Health care Finance (3 credit hours) PHS 762 Methods for Economic Evaluations of Health Programs (3 credit hours) Other departmental/school and university-wide electives, including PHS 791 Independent Study, may be taken with the approval of the faculty advisor and program director.

MD/PhD Program Track

M0 or M1 - Summer
PHS 740	Writing and Reviewing Scientific Papers	2
PHS 747	Qualitative Methods and Analysis	3
Total		5
P 1 - Fall
PHS 700	Essentials of Population Health Science	3
PHS 702	Statistical Methods in Research	3
PHS 703	Epidemiology I	3
PHS 750	Population Health Research Methods I	3
Total		12
P1 - Spring
PHS 704	Epidemiology II	3
PHS 717	Principles of Classic, Modern, and Emerging Health Behavior Theory	3
PHS 731	Social Determinants of Health	3
PHS 742	Multivariate Regression	3
Total		12
P2 - Summer
PHS 744	Bioethics and Society	1
Total		1
P2 - Fall
PHS 701	Applied Demography	3
PHS 714	U.S. Healthcare Organizations and Delivery	3
PHS 743	Program Evaluation for Population-Level Interventions	3
PHS 749	Longitudinal and Multilevel Models	3
Total		12
P2 - Spring
PHS 712	Science Communication and Dissemination I	3
PHS 713	Implementation Science	3
PHS 753	Systems Science and Population Health	3
PHS 799	Doctoral Proposal Development	3
Total		12
P3 - Summer
PHS 798	Doctoral Dissertation Research	1+
Total		1+
P3 - Fall
PHS 798	Doctoral Dissertation Research	1+
Total		1+
P3 - Spring
PHS 718	Proseminar	1
PHS 798	Doctoral Dissertation Research	1+
Total		2+
*MD-PhD students in their third year must take at least three elective hours from any of the courses offered by the Department of Population Health Science, with the approval of the graduate program director.