UIC
School of Public Health Student Handbook 2008-2009
The Master of Public Health: Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences
To print
the PEP curricular table for the EOHS
MPH, please download
here(pdf)
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Professional Enhancement Program
(PEP) MPH Curriculum
TOTAL Credit Hours = minimum of 42
semester credit hours (SH)
http://www.uic.edu/sph/eohs.htm
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School-Wide
Core
Requirements
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EPID 400 Principles and Methods (3
SH)
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BSTT 400 Biostatistics I (4 SH)
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HPA 400 Principles of Management in Public
Health (3 SH)
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CHSC 400 Public Health Concepts and Practice (3
SH)
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EOHS 400 Principles of Environmental Health
Sciences (3 SH)
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CHSC 401 Behavioral Sciences in Public Health (3
SH)
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Required Non-Credit
Training:
(http://tigger.uic.edu/depts/ovcr/research /protocolreview/irb/education/initial.shtml)
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HIPAA Research 101 (non-credit)
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Investigator Training 101 (non-credit)
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Culminating Experience:
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IPHS 650 Field Experience in Public Health (3-5
SH)*
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IPHS 698 MPH Capstone Experience (1 SH)**
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SUB-TOTAL: 23-25 semester credit
hours
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Divisional Core Requirements
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All students are required to take a
minimum
of 12 semester credit hours in EOHS courses;
choosing
at least one course in each of the following
three areas:
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Exposure Assessment and Measurement
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Health
Assessment
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Intervention Strategies
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Select at least one
of the following:
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EOHS 405 Environmental Calculations (2 SH)
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EOHS 418 Analysis of Water and Wastewater
Quality (2 SH)
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Select at least one
of the following:
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EOHS 450 Principles of Occupational
and Environmental Medicine (2 SH)
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EOHS 455 Environmental and
Occupational Toxicology (3 SH)
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Select at least one
of the following:
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EOHS 408 Biological, Chemical, Explosives, and
Nuclear Weapons as Public Health Threats (3 SH)
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EOHS 411 Water Quality Management (4 SH)
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EOHS 421 Fundamentals of Industrial Hygiene (2
SH)
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EOHS 428 Industrial Hygiene Laboratory I (2 SH)
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EOHS 438 Air Quality Laboratory (2 SH)
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EOHS 440 Chemistry for Environmental
Professionals (3 SH)
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EOHS 542 Water Chemistry (4 SH)
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EOHS 543 Environmental Organic Chemistry (4 SH)
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EOHS 557 Design and Analysis of Experiments (4
SH)
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EOHS 564 Geographic Information System
Application in Public Health (3 SH)
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EOHS 565 Datamining Applications in Public
Health (3 SH)
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EOHS 495 Environmental/ Occupational
Health Seminar (1 SH)
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EOHS 551 Occupational Diseases (4
SH)
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EOHS 554 Occupational and
Environmental Epidemiology (2 SH)
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EOHS 555 Advanced Toxicology (3 SH)
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EOHS 571 Injury Epidemiology
(3 SH)
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EOHS 431 Air Quality Management I (3 SH)
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EOHS 461 Community Health and Consumer
Protection (2 SH)
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EOHS 463 Safety Management Systems (2 SH)
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EOHS 482 Occupational Safety Science (2 SH)
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EOHS 556 Risk Assessment in Environmental and
Occupational Health (3 SH)
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EOHS 572 Environmental Risk Assessment and
Management (4 SH)
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SUB-TOTAL: 12 semester credit hours
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Electives
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Students must complete the number of electives
necessary to bring total program hours to a
minimum
of 42 semester credit hours.
SUB-TOTAL: 5-7 semester credit hours
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For
Occupational Medicine
Residents
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Occupational Medicine Residency
Program
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Students must complete the School-Wide Course
Requirements and all of the following courses in
lieu of the Divisional Core Requirements:
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EOHS 421 Fundamentals of Industrial Hygiene (2
SH)
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EOHS 455 Environmental and Occupational
Toxicology (3 SH)
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EOHS 482 Occupational Safety Science (2 SH)
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EOHS 551 Occupational Diseases (4 SH)
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EOHS 554 Occupational and Environmental
Epidemiology (2 SH)
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Electives – Students
must complete the number of electives necessary
to bring total program hours to a
minimum
of 42 semester credit hours.
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Culminating Experience:
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IPHS 650 Field Experience in Public
Health (3-5 SH)*
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IPHS 698 MPH Capstone Experience (1
SH)**
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TOTAL HOURS
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Minimum of 42 semester credit hours
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To print
the Comprehensive curricular table for the EOHS
MPH, please download
here(pdf)
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Comprehensive MPH Curriculum
TOTAL Credit Hours = minimum of 43
semester credit hours (SH)
http://www.uic.edu/sph/eohs.htm
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School-Wide
Core
Requirements
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EPID 400 Introduction to
Epidemiology: Principles and Methods (3 SH)
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BSTT 400 Biostatistics I (4 SH)
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HPA 400 Principles of Management in Public
Health (3 SH)
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CHSC 400 Public Health Concepts and Practice (3
SH)
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EOHS 400 Principles of Environmental Health
Sciences (3 SH)
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CHSC 401 Behavioral Sciences in Public Health (3
SH)
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Required Non-Credit
Training:
(http://tigger.uic.edu/depts/ovcr/research /protocolreview/irb/education/initial.shtml)
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·
HIPAA Research 101 (non-credit)
·
Investigator Training 101 (non-credit)
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Culminating Experience:
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IPHS
650 Field Experience in Public Health (3-5 SH)*
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IPHS 698 MPH Capstone Experience (1 SH)**
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SUB-TOTAL: 23-25 semester credit
hours
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Divisional
Core
Requirements
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All students are required to take a
minimum
of 12 semester credit hours in EOHS courses;
choosing
at least one course in each of the following
three areas:
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Exposure Assessment and Measurement
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Health Assessment
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Intervention
Strategies
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Select at least one
of the following:
·
EOHS 405 Environmental Calculations (2 SH)
·
EOHS 418 Analysis of Water and Wastewater
Quality (2 SH)
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Select at least one
of the following:
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EOHS 450 Principles of Occupational
and Environmental Medicine (2 SH)
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EOHS 455 Environmental and
Occupational Toxicology (3 SH)
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Select at least one
of the following:
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EOHS 408 Biological, Chemical, Explosives, and
Nuclear Weapons as Public Health Threats (3 SH)
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EOHS 411 Water Quality Management (4 SH)
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EOHS 421 Fundamentals of Industrial Hygiene (2
SH)
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EOHS 428 Industrial Hygiene Laboratory I (2 SH)
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EOHS 440 Chemistry for Environmental
Professionals (3 SH)
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EOHS 438 Air Quality Laboratory (2 SH)
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EOHS 542 Water Chemistry (4 SH)
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EOHS 543 Environmental Organic Chemistry (4 SH)
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EOHS 557 Design and Analysis of Experiments (4
SH)
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EOHS 564 Geographic Information System
Application in Public Health (3 SH)
·
EOHS 565 Datamining Applications in Public
Health (3 SH)
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EOHS 495 Environmental/ Occupational
Health Seminar (1 SH)
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EOHS 551 Occupational Diseases (4
SH)
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EOHS 554 Occupational and
Environmental Epidemiology (2 SH)
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EOHS 555 Advanced Toxicology (3 SH)
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EOHS 571 Injury Epidemiology
(3 SH)
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EOHS 431 Air Quality Management I (3 SH)
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EOHS 461 Community Health and Consumer
Protection (2 SH)
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EOHS 463 Safety Management Systems (2 SH)
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EOHS 482 Occupational Safety Science (2 SH)
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EOHS 556 Risk Assessment in Environmental and
Occupational Health (3 SH)
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EOHS 572 Environmental Risk Assessment and
Management (4 SH)
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SUB-TOTAL:
12 semester credit hours
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Electives, Tracks, and
Concentrations
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Students may use their electives to pursue a course
of study in one of the following optional
tracks, or divisional or inter-disciplinary
concentrations; or may customize their program
of study by selecting from a broad range of
course work to meet their career goals and
interests.
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Optional Tracks
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With the approval of the faculty advisor, MPH
students choose from among a series of grouped
quantitative courses to acquire skills that can
be applied to occupational and environmental
content. These include
three courses, one of which should be at the 500 level.
Following are a few samples of three-course
quantitative tracks, but other series may be
developed with the advisor's approval.
EOHS Epidemiology/Biostatistics: EPID 403 Introduction
to Epidemiology: Principles and Methods (3 SH),
BSTT 401 Biostatistics II (4 SH), EOHS 554
Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology (2
SH)
Environmental Health Data Management and
Analysis: BSTT 401 Biostatistics
II (4 SH), HPA 465 Health Information and
Decision Support Systems (4 SH), EOHS 564
Geographic Information System Application in
Public Health (3 SH)
Environmental Chemistry:
EOHS 418 Analysis of Water and Wastewater
Quality (2 SH), EOHS 440 Chemistry for
Environmental Professionals (3 SH), EOHS 542
Water Chemistry (3 SH)
Human Health Risk Assessment: BSTT 401 Biostatistics II (4 SH),
EOHS 455 Environmental and Occupational
Toxicology (3 SH), EOHS 556 Risk Assessment in
Environmental and Occupational Health (3 SH)
SUB-TOTAL: 8-19 semester credit hours
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Optional
Concentration
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ASAC-ABET – Accredited MPH Program
in Industrial Hygiene
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To meet ABET requirements students must complete
19 semester credit hours from the following
courses as part of their divisional and elective
choices. In addition, students must adhere to
the divisional requirements as stipulated for
their individual program of study.
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EOHS 405 Environmental Calculations (2 SH)
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EOHS 421 Fundamentals of Industrial Hygiene (2
SH)
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EOHS 424 Environmental Acoustics (2 SH)
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EOHS 428 Industrial Hygiene Laboratory I (2 SH)
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EOHS 431 Air Quality Management I (3 SH)
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EOHS 438 Air Quality Laboratory (2 SH)
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EOHS 482 Occupational Safety Science (2 SH)
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EOHS 523 Engineering Controls/Industrial
Ventilation (4 SH)
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EOHS 529 Industrial Hygiene Lab II (2 SH)
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EOHS 570 Hazardous Materials Management (3 SH)
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EOHS 584 Radiation Protection (3 SH)
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EITHER
EOHS 455 Environmental and Occupational
Toxicology (3 SH) and EOHS 554 Occupational AND Environmental Epidemiology (2 SH)
OR
EOHS 551 Occupational and Environmental
Diseases (4 SH)
SUB-TOTAL: 19 semester credit hours
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Other Recognized Interdisciplinary
Concentrations
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Interdepartmental Graduate Concentration in
Survey Research Methodology http://www.srl.uic.edu/gcsrm.htm
Interdepartmental Graduate Concentration in
Women's Health http://www.uic.edu/nursing/forms/WHConcentrationWebInfo.pdf
Graduate Concentration in Women's Studies http://www.uic.edu/depts/wsweb/graduate/index.htm
Global Health
http://www.uic.edu/sph/global/index.shtml
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TOTAL HOURS
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Minimum of 43 semester credit hours
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Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences (EOHS): MPH Learning Objectives
In addition to the school-wide learning objectives, for students pursuing the MPH degree in Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, the following objectives apply:
- Demonstrate an understanding of the basic mechanisms by which environmental and occupational pollutants impact health (i.e., the linkage of pollutants’ source, media, receptor and health effects) and the means to develop controls or interventions to protect humans and ecological systems.
- Express a working knowledge of the basic sciences deemed most relevant for the study of environmental and occupational health – toxicology, epidemiology and environmental chemistry.
- Be able to collect, analyze and interpret environmental and occupational data.
- Describe the structure of regulations and policies that govern the efforts to protect workplace and environmental health.
- Exhibit the ability to implement an occupational or environmental health investigation or project and clearly report the results.
In addition to the EOHS MPH learning objectives, students in the ABET-Accredited Industrial Hygiene track will be able to:
- Identify agents, factors, and stressors generated by and/or associated with defined sources, unit operations, and/or processes;
- Describe qualitative and quantitative aspects of generation of agents, factors, and stressors;
- Understand physiological and/or toxicological interactions of physical, chemical, biological, and ergonomic agents, factors, and/or stressors with the human body;
- Assess qualitative and quantitative aspects of exposure assessment, dose-response, and risk characterization based on applicable pathways and modes of entry;
- Calculate, interpret, and apply statistical and epidemiological data to occupational health problems;
- Recommend and evaluate engineering, administrative, and personal protective equipment controls and/or other interventions to reduce or eliminate hazards;
- Demonstrate an understanding of applicable business and managerial practices;
- Interpret and apply applicable occupational and environmental regulations; and
- Understand fundamental aspects of safety and environmental health.
Joint Degree Options for EOHS students:
MBA/MPH
MD/MPH
JD/MPH
General MPH Curricular Policies: See http://www.uic.edu/sph/shandbook_mph.htm
* Field Experience
The Field Experience provides the student with practical experience in a public health setting. The overall learning objective of the Field Experience is for the student to apply and integrate the skills and knowledge learned during their graduate study in a real-world application. The Field Experience is required of all MPH students, with the majority being required to complete a 5 credit (320 contact hours) assignment. Some students may qualify for a reduced practicum of 3 credits (192 contact hours) depending on their prior public health experience and career goals, and would need to discuss this possibility within their chosen division.
The field experience may be waived on an individual basis based upon a student’s demonstration of a Bachelor’s or advanced degree in a health or related profession plus 3 years of paid public health experience. A prior professional degree without public health experience; or prior work experience that is not closely related to the academic objectives of the student’s degree program; are not sufficient reason for waiving the practice requirement. If petitioning to waive the field practicum, please attach supporting documentation including a resume and letter explaining relevant public health experiences and how these experiences relate to the field practicum learning objectives found in the SPH student handbook General MPH Curricular Policies (hyperlink to general MPH info).
**EOHS Capstone Requirements
Required Courses:
All students must complete the following two course requirements:
- IPHS 650 Field Experience in Public Health (3-5 SH)
- IPHS 698 MPH Capstone Experience (1 SH)
- Starting in Spring 2008, students registering for the Capstone will be required to attend a biweekly seminar addressing components of the Capstone requirement. These seminars are arranged with the Capstone Facilitator please see your Academic Coordinator for more information.
Capstone Requirements:
Poster Presentation - A Capstone is a research-quality poster presentation of the students’
own work that demonstrates the ability to identify a public health problem concerning exposure assessment, outcomes measurement
or intervention development. The Capstone will address some aspect of occupational and environmental health through the collection
and/or systematic evaluation of data and synthesis of the results in standard scientific format. Students in the comprehensive MPH
track may choose to report on their fieldwork experience, if appropriate, or on another experience, such as a research assistantship,
volunteer activity, or public-health related employment. Students in the PEP track may choose to report a research project or may
evaluate some aspect of public health related work. The capstone project must be summarized in a poster presentation.
The capstone project should consist of the following:
- a specific question or hypothesis
- problem and hypothesis statement based on background reading and research
- some form of data collection, management, and presentation
Quantitative projects should include descriptive statistics and some basic analytic statistics, whenever possible. Qualitative projects are only appropriate if the student has completed at least one qualitative research methods course.
Poster Presentation Format - Standard research poster presentation format is available in the office of the Academic Coordinator, and includes instruction on poster size, layout, font size. Poster presentations should include title, author(s), background, problem statement/hypothesis, methods, results, discussion and conclusion sections, acknowledgements, including others engaged in the project who were not already listed as co-authors, the organization at which the project took place, and all sources of funding.
NOTE: Students who are doing research involving human subjects will need to undergo training and have their protocols approved by the Institutional Review Board (IRB).
For further information regarding specific EOHS capstone protocol and timelines, please see the EOHS Forms and Resources website:
http://www.uic.edu/sph/eohs_currentstudent.htm
Evaluation / Grading Procedures:
Students will present the posters at the EOHS Capstone date for the Fall, Spring, or Summer semester. Students unable to participate in a given semester should plan on presenting at the subsequent semester. Grading is satisfactory/unsatisfactory based on agreement of faculty advisor and faculty reader, but no grades will be assigned in the absence of formal poster presentation.
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