Program: Public Health (MPH, MS)
Degree: Master's
Date: Mon Oct 07, 2013 - 8:27:53 am
1) Below are your program's student learning outcomes (SLOs). Please update as needed.
Epidemiology Competency
1. Identify patterns of disease and injury in human populations and apply epidemiological methods to the identification and control of health problems.
2. Identify key sources of data and apply descriptive techniques commonly used to summarize public health data used to inform scientific, ethical, economic, and political discussion of health issues.
3. Calculate basic epidemiological measures, apply common statistical methods, and interpret results of statistical analyses used in public health studies.
Social and Behavioral Health Sciences Competency
4. Identify basic theories, concepts, and models from a range of social and behavioral disciplines that are used in public health research and practice.
5. Identify the causes of social and behavioral factors that affect health of individual and populations.
6. Describe the merits of social and behavioral science interventions and policies.
7. Apply evidence-based approaches in the development and evaluation of social and behavioral science interventions.
Biostatistics Competency
8. Apply basic statistical methods to address, analyze and solve problems in public health.
Environmental Health Competency
9. Describe how environmental factors (biological, physical, and chemical) affect the health of a community.
Health Policy and Management Competencies
10. Identify the main components and issues of the organization, financing and delivery of health services and public health systems in the US.
11. Describe the legal and ethical bases for public health and health services.
12. Apply the principles of program planning, development, budgeting, management and evaluation in organizational and community initiatives.
13. Apply “system thinking for resolving organizational problems.
Diversity and Culture Competency
14. Explain why cultural competence alone cannot address health disparities; be able to interact with both diverse individuals and groups on public health issues.
Leadership Competency
15. Organize community partnerships to create and communicate a shared vision for a changing future; discuss solutions to organizational and community challenges; and maximize motivation to reach public health goals.
Public Health Biology Competency
16. Discuss how public health biology – the biological and molecular context of public health – impacts public health practice.
Systems Thinking Competency
17. Recognize system-level properties that result from dynamic interactions among human and social systems and how they affect the relationships among individuals, groups, organizations, communities, and environments.
Program Planning Competency
18. Plan for the design, development, implementation, and evaluation of strategies to improve individual and community health.
Ethics and Professionalism Competency
19. Demonstrate ethical choices, values and professional practices implicit in public health decisions; consider the effect of choices on community stewardship, equity, social justice and accountability; and to commit to personal and institutional development.
Communication and Informatics Competency
20. Collect, manage and organize data to produce information and demonstrate ability to present this information in meaningful ways to different audiences.
2) Your program's SLOs are published as follows. Please update as needed.
Department Website URL: www.hawaii.edu/publichealth Student Handbook. URL, if available online: http://www.hawaii.edu/publichealth/download/students/1112_Handbook.pdf
Information Sheet, Flyer, or Brochure URL, if available online: UHM Catalog. Page Number: http://www.catalog.hawaii.edu/schoolscolleges/medicine/phse.htm Course Syllabi. URL, if available online: www.hawaii.edu/publichealth/academics/courses.html Other: Other: 3) Select one option:
- File (03/16/2020)
4) For your program, the percentage of courses that have course SLOs explicitly stated on the syllabus, a website, or other publicly available document is as follows. Please update as needed.
0% 1-50% 51-80% 81-99%
100%5) Did your program engage in any program assessment activities between June 1, 2012 and September 30, 2013? (e.g., establishing/revising outcomes, aligning the curriculum to outcomes, collecting evidence, interpreting evidence, using results, revising the assessment plan, creating surveys or tests, etc.)
Yes No (skip to question 14)6) For the period June 1, 2012 to September 30, 2013: State the assessment question(s) and/or assessment goals. Include the SLOs that were targeted, if applicable.
MPH students are required to complete the 6 core courses and 7 specialization courses with a passing grade of an “A”, “B”, or “C”. The SLOs competencies are linked to a range of required courses in the MPH degree program. The specific selected competencies are listed in each syllabus that show which competencies were obtained upon completion. The teaching faculty members select the appropriate competencies and note them in their syllabi that are obtained by satisfactory completion of their course.
7) State the type(s) of evidence gathered to answer the assessment question and/or meet the assessment goals that were given in Question #6.
The methods of evidence for MPH include the following five (5) items: 1) MPH portfolios collected in final PH 789 Integrative Seminar course, 2) the final competency matrix completed by the students themselves, 3) passing grade with “A” “B” or “C” as assigned by the faculty of the courses that is linked to competencies,4) faculty's syllabi with selected linked competencies, and/or 5) competency system re-designed to link more closely with MPH curriculum (map).
8) State how many persons submitted evidence that was evaluated. If applicable, please include the sampling technique used.
The number persons included the 21 faculty members who teach in the MPH program and then submit the MPH students’ grades for those SLOs courses.
All MPH students submitted their MPH protfolio and SLO (public health competencies) with competencies table to the Public Health Student Services in order graduate.
9) Who interpreted or analyzed the evidence that was collected? (Check all that apply.)
Course instructor(s) Faculty committee Ad hoc faculty group Department chairperson Persons or organization outside the university Faculty advisor Advisors (in student support services) Students (graduate or undergraduate) Dean/Director Other: 10) How did they evaluate, analyze, or interpret the evidence? (Check all that apply.)
Used a rubric or scoring guide Scored exams/tests/quizzes Used professional judgment (no rubric or scoring guide used) Compiled survey results Used qualitative methods on interview, focus group, open-ended response data External organization/person analyzed data (e.g., external organization administered and scored the nursing licensing exam) Other: 11) For the assessment question(s) and/or assessment goal(s) stated in Question #6:
Summarize the actual results.
Summary of the results produced 100% of graduating MPH students for total of 22 completed all five pieces of evidence for SLOs (MPH competencies) for those graduating at December 2012 and May 2013 graduation.
12) State how the program used the results or plans to use the results. Please be specific.
The results were shared with the Department’s Curriculum Committee and these members helped refine the MPH assessment process each year.
13) Beyond the results, were there additional conclusions or discoveries?
This can include insights about assessment procedures, teaching and learning, program aspects and so on.
The Office of Public Health Studies's Office of Graduate Student and Administration Service (OGSAS) office collects an exit survey for each student to get more feedback on how the graduate student feels about his/her MPH education. Within three years after graduation,OGSAS collects an alumni survey to see if the graduates have gotten employed.
14) If the program did not engage in assessment activities, please explain.
Or, if the program did engage in assessment activities, please add any other important information here.
OPHS did engage in assessment and nothing more at this time.