Curriculum

Course Requirements
After admission to the Program in Preventive Medicine and Community Health, the student will work with a faculty advisor to organize a plan of study. This plan will provide the student with the assessment and research skills needed to advance knowledge in rehabilitation sciences. There are no specific requirements in terms of total course credits. Students with a Master's degree are required to enroll in didactic course work equivalent to two years of study (55-72 credits), plus a dissertation.  Students with a Bachelor's degree are required to enroll in courses equivalent to three years of study (81-92 credits), plus a dissertation. 
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Examinations
Following completion of course work, students must pass written and oral qualifying examinations that test current knowledge regarding rehabilitation healthcare, preventive and community health, and the ability to design and conduct independent, outcomes focused research.

Dissertations
After successfully completing qualification exam requirements, the student will be advanced to doctoral candidacy and complete a dissertation. The dissertation will be original work examining an important question in rehabilitation science related to the prevention or remediation of disability, and/or the systematic examination of adaptation to functional impairment or societal limitation resulting from a disability.