Applied Practice Experience&Integrative Learning Experience for Clinical Effectiveness (SUM-focused)

EPI 947S Subject & Catalog Number

Description

This course fulfills the Applied Practice Experience (APE, or “practicum”) and Integrative Learning Experience (ILE) requirements for Summer-focused MPH in Clinical Effectiveness (MPH CLE) students. For the practicum, all students develop and conduct an applied analytic project that includes aspects of epidemiology, biostatistics, decision sciences, or other quantitative aspects of public health. The project must have an analytic component (i.e., it cannot be a purely descriptive project.) Each student works with a local mentor (at their host organization or home institution) as well as a Harvard faculty mentor. The practicum culminates in a final presentation about their project in EPI 947U, an on-campus seminar that students must attend during their second or third summer of the program.
 
All Summer-focused MPH CLE students must register for two semesters of EPI 947 in their final year of the program: EPI 947S (Full Spring) and EPI 947U (Full Summer), which are 2.5 credits each (5.0 credits total). There are no class meetings of EPI 947S during the Spring, but students will work independently on their projects (with guidance from their local and Harvard mentors) and submit several assignments, including a Learning Agreement and Analysis Plan. During the Summer, students will register for and attend EPI 947U, an on-campus daily seminar (from 1-1:50 pm ET) in which they will present the methods and results from their practicum projects, write two critiques of other students’ presentations, and submit their final Integrative Learning Experience paper. Attendance at the EPI 947U seminars during the second or third summer is mandatory.
 
Before registering for EPI 947, students must submit the CLE Practice Course Application (https://hsph.me/CLE-PracticeCourseApplication). Students must request permission to register for EPI 947 in my.harvard, and Dr. Baer will approve this request after reviewing the CLE Practice Course Application. If students do not know what project they are working on for the practicum, they should contact Dr. Baer directly before registering for EPI 947 (hbaer@bwh.harvard.edu).
 
More detailed information about the practicum can be found at this site: https://hsph.me/CLE.overview
 
Course Note: Student must attend the on-campus sessions of this course during their second or third summer, to present their own practicum projects and hear other students’ presentations. Regular contact between students and mentors is expected during the year to seek advice, provide activity updates, and to discuss approaches to the solution of methodological issues. 
 
Enrollment Requirements:
Course Restricted to students in the MPH summer-focused CLE program. Students must have completed the CLE Practice Course Application (https://hsph.me/CLE-PracticeCourseApplication) before registering.