PBHL 6355 Integrative Learning Experience (ILE) Simulation

The ILE is the culminating experience for MPH students and is a requirement for graduation in the MPH program. The capstone is typically completed in the last term of the program.

The ILE Simulation course is an opportunity for students to work on identifying and addressing public health practice issues that are of particular interest to them, utilizing case-based public health simulations to demonstrate competencies developed throughout the MPH degree program. The goal is for students to synthesize, integrate and apply the skills and competencies they have acquired to a public health problem that approximates a professional practice experience.

The final deliverables will reflect an integration and synthesis of foundational and program-specific competencies in the disciplines of public health (PH). Completion of the ILE simulation course requires both written and oral components, with production of a high-quality written product appropriate to the student’s educational and professional goals (in line with CEPH Criteria D7), which is developed in a manner that is useful to external stakeholders.

In the ILE simulation course, students will complete a practice-based simulation in which the student identifies and focuses on a specific public health issue of their choosing, to investigate, identify and utilize evidence-based PH methods and tools to develop improvements or solutions to the problem.

Prerequisite

All core MPH courses or permission of the instructor of record and program director.