2017/18 Taught Postgraduate Programme Catalogue

MPH Public Health (International)

Total credits: 180

Entry requirements:

- Candidates will either be medical graduates or health professionals with a good honours degree or equivalent in a relevant subject.
- They will normally have at least two years of international public health experience.
- Extensive experience in relevant public health work may exceptionally constitute an alternative basis for admission.

School/Unit responsible for the parenting of students and programme:

Leeds Institute of Health Sciences, School of Medicine

Examination board through which the programme will be considered:

School of Medicine Examination Board

Programme specification:

The programme teaches the essential skills, knowledge and attitude necessary to improve existing and to build new health services, programmes and related management systems in order to improve the public health of the communities amongst whom the participants work. The dissertation can be taken as a distance learning option. The programme includes an optional placement in a British public health organization and an optional field visit to the World Health and international organizations in Geneva (Switzerland).

The programme will:
- Provide an international learning environment, with staff and students drawn from many countries, within which students drawn from a variety of professional backgrounds around the world benefit and learn from their collective professional and cultural experiences;
- Offer opportunities to develop the ability to think analytically; a capacity for independent learning; the capability to complete a challenging, extended piece of independent study and an awareness of the importance of and opportunities for continuing professional development;
- Offer flexibility, enabling students to attain high levels of professional skill whilst also pursuing individual study interests in a learning environment where research informs teaching with optional module choices and dissertation opportunities reflect shared staff and student research interests.

And also:
- Introduce the essential learning skills for postgraduate level study within a structured framework with particular emphasis on the challenges facing those returning to study;
- Present health and health systems in an international policy context and provide a clear appreciation of the conceptual framework within which public health policy and management is located;
- Teach the essential skills required to improve existing and build new health services, programmes and related management systems to improve the public health of the communities amongst whom the participants work with emphasis on epidemiology and statistics and evidence-based public health interventions;
- Build upon the core skills and knowledge acquired early in the programme by choosing areas of study from the list of optional modules in specialist fields of public health, planning and management;
- Introduce the concept of the Learning Portfolio which strongly encourages a reflective approach to learning and can form the basis of career-long independent learning;
- Develop a capacity for independent learning and an awareness of the importance of continued professional development;
- Offer the opportunity to plan, initiate, execute and complete a substantial piece of independent research, in the form of the dissertation, within a supportive framework which provides specific research training and preparation for the dissertation.

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[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]

Compulsory modules:

Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules:

Optional modules:

Candidates will be required to study 60 credits from the following optional modules:

Candidates are eligible for the award if they pass the 75 credits of compulsory taught modules, the 60 credits of optional taught modules chosen and the compulsory 45 credit dissertation.

This is a list of optional modules typically available, the availability of optional modules varies from year to year.

Last updated: 10/05/2017

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