DVM-MPH
The Doctor of Veterinary Medicine-Master of Public Health (DVM-MPH) dual degree program provides advanced professional training in both veterinary medicine and public health.
The dual-degree program allows students to complete both the DVM and MPH degrees in five years and allows for an overlap of up to eight credits between the two programs. DVM students complete the first two years of their veterinary curriculum before entering the MPH program. Students then step out of veterinary school to complete the core requirements, electives and Applied Practice Experience (APEX) for the MPH program over the course of three semesters before returning to veterinary school.
The DVM-MPH dual degree requires that students apply to and be admitted to each program separately. DVM students can apply to the MPH program during any application cycle in the first two years of veterinary school. Admitted students can defer their admission until after the second year of vet school. The MPH program does not have rolling admission.
DVM-MPH Course Schedule
Fall
- PUBLHLTH 780 Evidence-Based Decision-Making
3 credits - PUBLHLTH 782 Determinants of Health and Health Equity: A Systems Approach
3 credits - PUBLHLTH 783 Quantitative Approaches to Public Health
4 credits - PUBLHLTH 791 Communicating Public Health Effectively II
3 credits - PUBLHLTH 792 Policy and Public Health
3 credits
16 total credits
Spring
- 784 Quantitative Approaches To Public Health II
3 credits - PUBLHLTH 785 Public Health and Health Care Systems
3 credits - PUBLHLTH 786 Planning and Management to Promote Health
3 credits - PUBLHLTH 787 Applied Practice Experience Seminar
1 credit - PUBLHLTH 790 Social Justice and Public Health: Tools and Models
2 credits - PUBLHLTH 793 Public Health Leadership
2 credits
14 total credits
Summer
- PUBLHLTH 788 Applied Practice Experience
6 credits
6 total credits
DVM Program
- Discipline-Related Courses and Electives
8 credits -
- Path Bio 512 Intro Veterinary Epidemiology (2 credits)
- Path Bio 515 Reg Vet Med and PH (2 credits)
- Med Sc-V 675 Applied Epi (2 credits)
- Med Sc-V 775 PH Externship (2 credits)
8 total credits