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Dual Degree Option (PA/ MPH) Available to Entering Students
The dual degree program offers students the opportunity to earn an MPH degree
in conjunction with training in the Rollins School of Public Health, Emory
University.
Students may apply their combined PA/PH skills in such areas as population
health, clinical research, health administration leadership, and community health
promotion.
Students must apply to and be accepted by 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. 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.
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.
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-eight months (seven semesters) of training, including courses
and clinical rotations.
For a description of requirements for the MPH program, see
http://www.sph.emory.edu/mphdegree_programs.php .
IMPORTANT UPDATE - 2008
Candidates for the PA/MPH degree
As we enter into our fourth
year of this exciting dual-degree program between the Emory University
Physician Assistant Program and the Rollins School of Public Health ,
several questions have frequently arisen. We hope the following will clarify
these issues.
Dual degree candidates must be accepted into both
the Rollins School of Public Health (RSPH) and the PA program during the
same admissions cycle.
Applicants to the dual degree program, if accepted to both the RSPH and the
School of Medicine’s (SOM) PA program, attend the RSPH year one and the PA
program year two and three. 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 (2009), and are not accepted into the School of Public Health,
you enter the PA program in 2010. 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.
Please note, you must designate your choice of PA/MPH or PA program only
on your supplemental application. Once this application is submitted
you can not 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.
During the final semester of the PA program, PA/MPH students may petition
for exemption from select courses previously completed at the RSPH. If
exemption is granted, students are still expected to maintain their status
as full-time students (12 credits).
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