DrPH Specialty Competencies

SPECIALTY COMPETENCIES - EPIDEMIOLOGY

DrPH Epidemiology specialty competencies designed by the PHP are the following:

1. Evaluate and assess risk and protective factors associated with public health problems.
2. Demonstrate knowledge of the issues of bias, error, confounding, effect modification, sampling and how they relate to the interpretation of study results.
3. Carry out appropriate sample size and power calculations to ensure that a study is sufficiently powered to achieve the scientific aims or address a specific research hypothesis.
4. Translate basic research into epidemiologic applications.
5. Use computer software for data entry and database management and for summarizing, analyzing and displaying research results.
6. Critically review and interpret the scientific, statistical methods and epidemiological measures presented in public health and medical literature to identify strengths and weaknesses and identify potential biases in these studies.
7. Apply underlying scientific, statistical and epidemiological measures to design, plan and conduct a variety of public health and biomedical studies including cohort, case control, cross sectional and clinical trials.
8. Use methods of measurement-design data collection forms; determine the validity of the instrument; identify the presence and magnitude of measurement error; [adjust] for measurement error.

INTEGRATIVE LEARNING EXPERIENCE COURSES PRE-REQUISITES

1. Students must be in good academic standing and have completed most (for CE) or all (for dissertation) of their coursework before proceeding to register for the Integrative Learning Experience. Good standing is defined as having a minimum GPA of 3.0 on a 4.0 points scale.
2. For registering DPH 8005 (doctoral dissertation) the student should Pass all comprehensive examinations.