H510 INTERNSHIP/ORGANIZATIONAL EXPERIENCE

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H510INTERNSHIP/ORGANIZATIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Orientation
• and
• Answers to
• Frequently Asked Questions

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What is an internship/organizational experience?

• Final, practical experience in the OMPH program
• Worth 6 credits (200 hours), over one ten week
  term
• Taken after completion of all required MPH courses

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What is the purpose?

• To provide a professional experience where
  knowledge from coursework is applied in a
  real-world setting
• Opportunity to apply existing skills and learn
  new ones
• Opportunity to gain experience within the field
  of public health
• Opportunity to reflect on learning objectives

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Who takes H510?

• All OMPH students must complete an internship or
  organizational experience.
• The Environment, Safety and Health, Health
  Promotion, Epidemiology, Biostatistics,and
  International Health tracks require an
  internship.
• The Health Management and Policy track requires
  an organizational experience.

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What are the prerequisites?

• Complete all MPH coursework
• Complete the Application and Learning Contract
  form, before meeting with your faculty advisor
  to
• discuss interests and possible sites for an
  internship/organizational experience, and
• the requirements for completing the learning
  contract

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What is involved in H510?

• Internship/organizational site selection
• Application and Learning Contract form approved
• 6 credits (total 200 hours)- register for H510
• Apply knowledge in a real-world competency based
  experience
• Full-fill track and student-specified
  competencies
• Develop final summary and evaluation reports

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How do I find an internship/organizational
experience?

• Announcements posted on the OMPH listserv
• Site identified in consultation with faculty
  advisor or other faculty
• Your own ideas and contacts

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Where have students found internships/organization
al experiences in the past?

• Health departments
• Healthcare organizations
• Non-profit organizations
• Worksite programs
• International contacts
• Government agencies
• Industrial settings

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What is a preceptor?

• Your site supervisor
• Appropriate mentorship preceptors must have
  public health credentials or appropriate health
  related credentials and experience
• Preceptor cannot be your faculty advisor

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Are internships/organizational experiences paid?

• Not expected or required
• May be negotiated between student and preceptor
• University usually is not involved in salary/wage
  arrangements

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What needs to be done?

• Meet with your faculty advisor and the internship
  coordinator to discuss possible sites
• Have faculty advisor fill out form giving final
  approval to engage in an internship.
• Work with advisor and internship coordinator to
  find a placement and site preceptor
• Complete the Application and Learning Contract
  and the Internship/Organizational Experience
  Information Form and discuss with internship
  coordinator.
• Provide copies of both forms to the preceptor, to
  advisor, to coordinator, and to Eileen Kasper in
  the Deans office.

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What needs to be done?

• Complete, get signatures, and submit the Request
  for To-Be-Arranged Course Form available in
  department office
• Complete registration for H510 must register
  for the entire duration of the internship/organiza
  tional experience

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What needs to be done?

• Maintain an ongoing internship/organizational
  experience journal
• Meet or communicate with internship coordinator
  as specified periodically during
  internship/organizational experience
• Immediately discuss any concerns or questions
  with internship coordinator.

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What needs to be done?

• Fulfill the Learning Contract as specified
• Submit Internship/Organizational Experience
  Summary Report and Internship/Organizational
  Experience Evaluation Report to internship
  coordinator and faculty advisor
• Request that preceptor complete the Student
  Evaluation Form for submission directly to the
  internship coordinator
• Complete the H510 Checklist

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What do I do if I am involved with data that
might be used for my thesis?

• Develop proposal under supervision of faculty
  advisor and committee members
• Gain approval of proposal        
• Submit to IRB for approval, as necessary

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Why is the learning contract important?

• Identifies information about the site
• Defines learning objectives, skill requirements,
  and anticipated outcomes
• Establishes timeline for task completion

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How do I write learning objectives?

• Begin with an action verb that matches the means
  of performance assessment.
• Describe what you will be able to do as a result
  of the objective.
• Describe the intended outcome or product, not the
  process.

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How do I write learning objectives?

• Write only one measurable objective for each
  skill.
• Learning objectives must reference and build upon
  the track competencies.

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What are the summary report components?

• The report should be a minimum of 10 pages,
  typed, double-spaced and must include the
  following sections
• I. Introduction
• II. Evaluation of Learning Objectives
• III. Evaluation of Track Competencies
• IV. Conclusion and Recommendations

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What are the other final requirements for the
internship/organizational experience?

• Submit Internship/Organizational Experience
  Evaluation Report to faculty advisor
• Request that preceptor complete the Student
  Evaluation Form and return it directly to the
  internship coordinator
• Submit the Internship Checklist to internship
  coordinator

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Summary of paperwork to be completed during
internship/organizational experience

• See Internship/Organizational Experience section
• of the OSU MPH Handbook
• 1. Faculty internship approval form
• 2. Internship/Organizational Experience
  Application and
• Learning Contract (copies to advisor,
  internship coordinator, preceptor, and Public
  Health Graduate Programs Manager, E. Kaspar)
• 3. Internship/Organizational Experience
  Information Form
• 4. Internship/Organizational Experience Summary
  Report
• 5. Internship/Organizational Experience
  Evaluation Report
• 6. Student Evaluation Form
• 7. Internship/Organizational Experience
  Checklist

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How can I make sure my experience is a good
experience?

• Talk with others who have interned at your site,
  interact with other OMPH students about possible
  sites
• Meet with your internship coordinator, faculty
  advisor, and preceptor to clarify learning
  objectives
• Complete all requirements in a timely manner
• Immediately discuss concerns or questions with
  the internship coordinator

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How do I register for H510?

• Complete all required MPH coursework
• Complete Learning Contract and meet with faculty
  advisor/internship coordinator
• Complete the Request for To-Be-Arranged Course
  Form (available online and in the departments
  main office) and have signed by internship
  coordinator
• Register for H 510

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What are the deadlines?

• Must submit the Learning Contract before
  registering for H510
• Registration for H510 must be done before the
  internship/organizational experience is started
  must be for the duration of the actual
  internship/organizational experience
• To receive a final grade, you must submit all
  final requirements before the end of the term, as
  discussed with the internship coordinator.

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How is the grade determined?

• Graded Pass/No Pass
• Pass Satisfactory internship report
  documenting
• Accomplishment of learning objectives
• Insights about relevant previous coursework
• Preceptors recommended evaluation of students
  progress
• No Pass insufficient documentation
• Internship coordinator and faculty advisor will
  discuss final grade and options if unsatisfactory
  outcome is determined

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What are the Track Specific Standards/Requirements
?

• In addition to meeting the MPH program
  requirements for the internship/organizational
  experience, the student must meet track-specific
  standards and requirements for the internship or
  organizational experience.

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What are the ESH Track Competencies?

• 1. Identify and assess the major environment,
  safety, and health hazards that impact workers
  and the general population.
• 2. Communicate culturally appropriate strategies
  for preventing and controlling environment,
  safety and health hazards.
• 3. Conduct environment, safety and health applied
  research.

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What are the ESH Track Competencies?

• 4. Analyze the interrelationship among the
  organization, delivery, and financing of
  environment, safety and health-related services.
• 5. Apply environment, safety and health knowledge
  and skills in practical settings.
• 6. Adhere to established ESH professional ethical
  standards and practices.

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What are the EHS Internship Requirements?

• Student must develop appropriate learning
  competencies for the EHS internship and document
  them in the learning contract.
• Student must describe how their area of emphasis,
  internship, and career objectives are connected.

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What are the EHS Internship Requirements?

• Student must be able to demonstrate that the
  placement is competency based including
  opportunities to develop EHS Track Competencies
  1-6
• Student may seek placements in public and/or
  private sector organizations with qualified
  preceptors in the area of Environment, Safety,
  Health.
• Student must complete a Request for
  To-Be-Arranged Course Form before registering
  for H510 for the entire duration of the actual
  internship.

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What are the EHS Internship Requirements?

• Student must submit both bi-weekly progress
  reports and a final summary of their work in the
  practice setting. These reports must be accepted
  by students faculty advisors.
• In their final reports, student must describe and
  evaluate the degree to which they demonstrated
  their individual and EHS Track learning
  competencies during their field experience.

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What are the EHS Internship Requirements?

• Preceptor must evaluate the degree to which
  student accomplished the stated individual and
  track learning competencies, using the student
  evaluation form provided by the student.
• The evaluation form must be submitted directly to
  the internship coordinator.
• Student will orally present activities and
  respond to questions in an open forum, which
  includes three faculty members who will evaluate
  the students demonstration of stated
  competencies.

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What are the Health Management Policy Track
(HMP) Competencies?

• 1. Conceptualize, analyze, and resolve problems
  related to health services delivery and finance.
• 2. Identify and apply economic financial, legal,
  organizational, political, and ethical theories
  and frameworks.
• 3. Employ appropriate qualitative and
  quantitative techniques to manage human, fiscal,
  technological, information, physical, and other
  resources.

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What are the Health Management Policy Track
(HMP) Competencies?

• 4. Establish and manage systems and processes to
  assess organizational performance for continuous
  improvement of quality, safety, and
  effectiveness.
• 5. Act ethically and professionally, and be
  responsive to community variations in cultures
  and sociodemographics.
• 6. Lead in all levels of public and private
  health services organizations.

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What are the Health Management Policy Track
(HMP) Competencies?

• 7. Communicate, solve problems and make decisions
  related to health policy and management in the
  public and private sectors.
• 8. Integrate theory and practice to plan,
  implement, and evaluate strategies and policies
  in health services programs, systems, and
  organizations.

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What are the HMP Organizational Experience
Requirements?

• In consultation with the faculty advisor, student
  must enroll in either H510 (organizational
  experience) or H506 (project) for the duration of
  the actual experience/project.
• Students in either option are required to present
  their final work product to a faculty committee
  during a presentation open to the university
  community.

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What are the HMP Organizational Experience
Requirements?

• The student must work on an administrative,
  policy or management issue confronting a public,
  nonprofit or health services organization.
• The experience site and work scope must be
  pre-approved by the relevant faculty advisor.
• Student is encouraged to maintain a journal
  during the experience to help in the preparation
  of the reflective paper.
• Student must complete a Request for
  To-Be-Arranged Course Form before registering
  for H510 for the entire duration of the actual
  internship.

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What are the HMP Organizational Experience
Requirements?

• Upon completion of the 200 hours of practice
  work
• 1. The community or organization preceptor will
  evaluate the students performance with respect
  to the competencies designated at the beginning
  of the experience, including at minimum Track
  Competencies 5, 6, and 8.
• 2. The student will document the experience and
  its product for the host organization.

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What are the HMP Organizational Experience
Requirements?

• 3. The student will prepare a reflective paper
  (minimum 10 pages) on the experience that
  addresses the utility of the experience for the
  student and offers personal reflection on
• achievement of the student's learning objectives
  articulated at the beginning of the
  organizational experience, including Track
  Competencies 5,6, and 8 and
• opportunities for integration of curricular
  content in practice and future career directions
  based on the experience and related learning.

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What are the HMP Organizational Experience
Requirements?

• 4. The student will make an oral presentation of
  their final work product to a faculty committee.
  The presentation will be open to the university
  community.
• 5. Preceptor will submit directly to the
  internship coordinator a competency assessment
  instrument, which is provided in the field
  experience handbook, evaluating the students
  performance of stated competencies.

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What are the Health Promotion (HP) Track
Competencies?

• 1. Apply theory in the development,
  implementation, and evaluation of health
  promotion interventions programs, and policies.
• 2. Develop interventions and programs to effect
  change at multiple levels, including individual,
  community, organizations, and policy.
• 3. Design and implement strategies to promote
  health.

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What are the Health Promotion (HP) Track
Competencies?

• 4. Solicit and integrate input from community and
  organization stakeholders.
• 5. Design and deliver health communication
  messages.
• 6. Evaluate and interpret results from program
  evaluations and other research.
• 7. Define research problems, frame research
  questions, design research procedures, and
  outline methods of analysis.

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What are the Health Promotion (HP) Track
Competencies?

• 8. Apply ethical principles that govern the
  practice of Public Health.
• 9. Enact cultural competency in diverse social
  and cultural communities.
• 10. Develop a substantive area of emphasis.

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What are the Health Promotion Internship
Requirements?

• Student may seek H510 placement in public or
  private sector organization that offers qualified
  health promotion preceptors.
• Student must complete a learning contract,
  prior to the start of placement.
• Student must complete a Request for
  To-Be-Arranged Course Form before registering
  for H510 for the entire duration of the actual
  internship.

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What are the Health Promotion Internship
Requirements?

• As part of the learning contract
• Student must develop individual learning
  competencies for the internship
• Student must describe how the area of emphasis,
  internship,and career objectives are connected
  and
• Student must describe the Health Promotion track
  competencies of which they intend to gain mastery
  during their internships. These must include, at
  minimum, track competencies 1, 3, 4, 8, 9, and
  10.

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What are the Health Promotion Internship
Requirements?

• After completing the internship, student must
  complete an internship summary report, which must
  be approved by the internship coordinator and the
  faculty advisor.
• In the final summary report student must describe
  and evaluate the degree to which they
  accomplished their individual and track learning
  competencies during their internship.

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What are the Health Promotion Internship
Requirements?

• Preceptor must evaluate, using a survey
  instrument provided in the Internship Handbook,
  the degree to which students accomplished their
  individual learning competencies and attained the
  track competencies.
• This evaluation must be submitted to the
  internship coordinator.

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What are the International Health Track
Competencies?

• 1. Design and manage health development programs
  considering health, social, political, cultural,
  and environmental factors.
• 2. Work in, and adapt to, any global context for
  health development.
• 3. Integrate global, political, economic, and
  cultural systems knowledge into health
  development.

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What are the International Health Track
Competencies?

• 4. Manage health development programs in global
  settings.
• 5. Develop a disciplinary subspecialty to be
  applied to international public health.
• 6. Identify culturally sensitive and
  socio-economically appropriate strategies in
  health development.
• 7. Design and manage health development programs
  in accordance to universally and locally
  acceptable ethical standard.

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What are the International Health Internship
Requirements?

• Student must develop individual learning
  competencies for the IH internship.
• Student must describe how their area of
  specialization, internship, and career objectives
  are connected.
• Student must describe how the H510 practicum will
  offer opportunities to demonstrate International
  Health track competencies 1-7.

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What are the International Health Internship
Requirements?

• The field experience must be community or
  population-based, preferably in a foreign nation
  or in an international or global setting. If the
  field experience site is domestic, the students
  tasks must address a minority population.
• Student must complete a Request for
  To-Be-Arranged Course Form before registering
  for H510 for the entire duration of the actual
  internship.

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What are the International Health Internship
Requirements?

• Student may choose from the following types of
  organizations
• International supra-governmental organizations
• NGOs with programs related to international
  health development
• Governmental international health development
  agencies
• Academic institutions health development
  programs or projects
• Domestic governmental agencies that address
  domestic minority population health
• Other nations governmental agencies (e.g.,
  Ministry of Health), or NGOs focusing on domestic
  minority population health development

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What are the International Health Internship
Requirements?

• Student must submit one copy of a mid-term report
  and one copy of a final report to the advisor for
  approval.
• In the final summary report, the student must
  describe and evaluate the degree to which
  individual and track learning competencies were
  accomplished during the internship.

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What are the International Health Internship
Requirements?

• Student will orally present internship activities
  and respond to questions in an open forum, which
  includes three faculty members who will evaluate
  demonstration of stated competencies.
• Preceptor will submit directly to students
  advisor a competency assessment instrument, which
  is provided in the field experience handbook,
  evaluating the students performance of stated
  competencies.

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What are the Epidemiology Competencies?

• Recognize public health problems pertinent to the
  population and identify key related sources of
  data.
• Understand, calculate and apply the basic terms,
  measures, and methods used in epidemiology.
• Apply principles of good ethical/legal practice
  and cultural competency as they relate to study
  design and data collection.
• Draw appropriate inferences from epidemiological
  data including indentifying strengths and
  limitations of reports
• Apply epidemiologic skills in the formulation or
  application of public health programs or
  policies.
• Assist in communicating findings and developing
  recommended evidence-based interventions and
  control measures in response to epidemiologic
  findings.

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What are the Epidemiology Requirements?

• Students must complete all required courses
  before beginning an internship or have written
  consent from their faculty advisor.
• Students must complete an internship application,
  which must be approved by their major
  professor/advisor prior to the start of
  placement.

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What are the Epidemiology Requirements (cont)?

• As part of their internship applications
• Students must develop appropriate learning
  competencies for the internship and document them
  in the internship application.
• Students must describe how their area of
  emphasis, internship, and career objectives are
  connected.
• Students must be able to demonstrate that the
  placement is competency-based including
  opportunities to develop Track Competencies 1-6.
• Students may seek placements in public and/or
  private sector organizations with qualified
  preceptors in the area of Epidemiology.

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What are the Epidemiology Requirements (cont)?

• Students must submit both bi-weekly progress
  reports and a final summary of their work in the
  practice setting. These reports must be accepted
  by students faculty advisors.
• In their final reports, students must describe
  and evaluate the degree to which they
  demonstrated their individual and EPI Track
  learning competencies during their practica.
• Preceptors must evaluate the degree to which
  students accomplished the stated individual and
  EPI Track learning competencies, using a
  Likert-scale instrument provided in the MPH
  Student General Handbook. This evaluation form
  must be submitted to the students faculty
  advisor.

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What are the Biostatistics Competencies?

• Describe the roles biostatistics serves in the
  discipline of public health.
• Describe basic concepts of probability, random
  variation and commonly used statistical
  probability distributions.
• Describe preferred methodological alternatives to
  commonly used statistical methods when
  assumptions are not met.
• Distinguish among the different measurement
  scales and the implications for selection of
  statistical methods to be used based on these
  distinctions.

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What are the Biostatistics Competencies?

• Apply descriptive and graphical techniques
  commonly used to summarize public health data.
• Apply common statistical methods for inference.
• Apply descriptive and basic inferential
  methodologies according to the type of study
  design for answering a particular research
  question.
• Interpret results of statistical analyses found
  in public health studies.
• Develop written and oral presentations based on
  statistical analyses for both public health
  professionals and educated lay audiences.

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What are the Biostatistics Requirements?

• Student must describe how the H510 internship
  will offer opportunities to demonstrate
  Biostatistics track competencies.
• Student will orally present internship activities
  and respond to questions in an open forum, which
  includes three faculty members who will evaluate
  demonstration of stated competencies, followed by
  an oral examination on coursework taken.
• Preceptor will submit directly to students
  advisor a competency assessment instrument, which
  is provided in the field experience handbook,
  evaluating the students performance of stated
  competencies.

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Additional Information

• For more information, please refer to the MPH
  Handbook 2009-2010 and the MPH Internship
  Handbook available at
• http//health.oregonstate.edu/public-health/handbo
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