Dual Degree Option (PA/ MPH) Available to Entering
Students
Emory is one of a few universities offering a dual MMSc-PA and MPH option
for interested applicants. The dual degree program offers students the
opportunity to earn an MPH degree in conjunction with training in the
respected and
top ranked
Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University. Students may apply
their combined PA/PH skills in such areas as population health, clinical
research, health administration leadership, global healthcare, and community
health promotion.
Students must apply to and be accepted to both the PA and MPH programs
during the same admission year. Students apply to a specific department in
the School of Public Health through SOPHAS and to the Physician Assistant
Program through CASPA. If you are accepted to the PA program but not
accepted into the RSPH, you enter the PA program the equivalent of year two.
For example, if you are apply to the dual degree program for the coming
year (2012), and are not accepted into the School of Public Health, you
enter the PA program in 2013. If you are accepted by the School of Public
Health but not the PA program, you may enter Public Health but are no longer
eligible to enter the dual degree program. You may apply to the PA program
as a regular student.
Accepted dual-degree students initially enroll in the School of Public
Health for one year and complete 32 semester hours of courses. These include
the required MPH core courses, required departmental courses and, in most
instances, a thesis. Students must also complete a practicum, a structured
field experience of relevance to public health.
After completion of the fall and spring semesters of the MPH curriculum,
dual degree students enter the PA program the following fall semester. The
PA Program requires twenty-nine months (seven semesters) of training,
including courses and clinical rotations
The MMSc-PA Curriculum is
linked here.
As
10 semester hours of PA courses count towards the MPH degree, the MPH degree
is awarded when the requirements for the PA program are completed.
Please note, you must designate your choice of PA/MPH or PA program only on
your supplemental application. Once this application is submitted you cannot
change your designation.
Deadlines for submission of applications are as follows:
CASPA and Emory
Supplemental
applications
must be completed by August 1
SOPHAS application must be
completed by October 1 .
Tuition and fees for the School of Public Health and the School of Medicine
are set by the University each spring and may differ from each other.
Successful candidates for the PA/MPH dual degree program pay for two
semesters (fall and spring) at the RSPH and seven consecutive semesters at
the Emory School of Medicine PA program.
Please follow this link for the RSPH description of requirements for the
MMSc-PA/MPH program.
