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DrPH Competencies Breakout Summary Chaired by: Dean Jim Raczynski

DrPH Competencies Breakout Summary Chaired by: Dean Jim Raczynski. Need a forum for the DrPH directors to keep meeting (at the ASPH annual meeting in the fall and the spring Ed Comm mtg.) Feedback and general consensus for the DrPH consensus statement

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DrPH Competencies Breakout Summary Chaired by: Dean Jim Raczynski

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  1. DrPH Competencies Breakout SummaryChaired by: Dean Jim Raczynski • Need a forum for the DrPH directors to keep meeting (at the ASPH annual meeting in the fall and the spring Ed Comm mtg.) • Feedback and general consensus for the DrPH consensus statement • Need to move forward on the DrPH competency development proposal • Get input from the practice community early • Invite practitioners to the consensus conference, which needs to happen early • Think outside the box re: the domains for the DrPH competencies (use a Delphi)

  2. Consensus Statement -- Background Stemming from the ASPH associate deans in the summer of 2003 with input from the full sub-committee inaugural meeting (Boston, 2006), the DrPH steering committee worked to develop the following draft statement that was refined by today’s meeting:

  3. Consensus Statement • There is consensus for the IOM report Who Will Keep the Public Healthy? (Institute of Medicine, 2003) statement that “the basic public health degree is the master of public health (MPH), while the doctor of public health (DrPH) is offered for advanced training in public health leadership.”

  4. Consensus Statement, cont. • The DrPH curriculum should serve to integrate the five core areas of public health, require work experience relevant to the degree, and address learning methods and context.  The DrPH should represent an advanced competency in public health practice skills, differentiating it from the MPH.

  5. Consensus Statement, cont. • DrPH programs should ensure that graduates have experiences in collaborating with senior public health practitioners through some form of practicum or other means.  This experience should be an opportunity to observe and to develop advocacy and leadership skills. 

  6. Consensus Statement, cont. • There should be a capstone requirement for the DrPH. The capstone project may, however, not be a traditional PhD dissertation (i.e., exclusively research-based).  The project, nonetheless, should involve a written product that addresses, generates, and/or interprets knowledge applicable to practice.

  7. Core Competency Development Proposal • Consensus conference with diverse practice community • Establish contract with competency development expert • Develop domains of competencies (iterative as competencies are developed) – “think outside of our boxes” • Identify competencies • Public review/comment • Disseminate competencies

  8. Other Identified Directions • Need to work with ASPH Communications Committee once consensus is developed for DrPH to educate and change misperceptions of stakeholder groups of the DrPH being less in status than PhD degree

  9. Comments - Questions

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