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Graduate Program in Health Policy and Management
One-Year Master's Program
This one-year option is available to doctoral-level clinical students or students with clinical degrees (MD, DDS, PharmD, etc). The coursework is normally completed over two academic semesters. One-year students are exempt for the field placement requirement and from PH 291A (Fall and Spring).


Schoolwide Requirements (11 units)
PH 142 Introduction to Probability & Statistics in Biology & Public Health
PH 200C Public Health Core Breadth Seminar
PH 200D Applied Public Health: Putting Theory Into Practice
PH 250A Epidemiologic Methods I
One-year student who have recently completed their medical education may have sufficient background in biostatistics and/or epidemiology to successfully test out of these courses. You would take another course to fulfill the unit count if you test out of either course.
HPM Program Required Courses (22 units)
PH 220 Health Policy Decision-Making
PH 223C Strategic Management and the Organization of Health Services
PH 231A Analytic Methods for Health Policy & Management
PH 298.32 Foundations of Health Policy and Management
PH 223E Capstone Seminar in Health Policy and Management
One of the following two courses:
PH 226A Health Economics
PH 226B* Health Economics
One of the following two courses:
PH 225 Legal Basis for Health
PH 229 Public Health and the Law
One of the following two courses:
PH 227A Health Care Finance
PH 227B** Advanced Financial Management


Requirements Subject to Change for 2007-2008 Academic Year
*PH 226B is an advanced course requiring a master's-level or intermediate undergraduate microeconomics course.
**PH 227B is an advanced course requiring a master's-level finance prerequisite or consent of instructor
Note: The one-year program is changing for Fall 2008. Click here for an overview of the revised program.

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