Tulane MD/MPH students

[Climberak]

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Hey Everyone!

I am considering an MD/MPH through Tulane (already been accepted to the med school), and I have a few questions for you all. The first is, how many credits should I take in each summer session? The website recommends 6, but I'm wondering if I would be able to do more (or if I should do less). The second is, how has taking MPH coursework affected your regular medical school coursework? Is it a big time consumer? Lastly, for those of you who took an online class during the spring semester of your second year, did you find that it significantly interfered with your Step I studying time?

Thanks!

 

[Jolie South]

I don't really know anything about summer classes and the like, but when I was working on my MPH, the med students in my class seemed pretty stressed and were usually only concerned with passing the PH classes.

Maybe, it's because I worked on one of the more heavy science tracks. It'd probably be easier if you were doing say international or community health.

 

[Jtrenier]

Congrats on your acceptance to Tulane! (I'm accepted too and am debating b/n Tulane and Loyola now). I'm not sure exactly how Tulane's MD/MPH program works, but if you can, try to take an extra year (maybe b/n 1st and second year) to do your MPH. This is how it was done at Emory (a 5-year program), and the MD/MPH students seemed to be able to actually concentrate on what they were learning from their MPH. I have my MPH and do believe that it is a valuable degree; however, make sure you take some courses that give you skills in statistics, epi, monitoring and evaluation, survey methods, etc. My experience with many global health classes is that you can learn a lot of that material through real world experiences. However, if you haven't actively worked in global health, then the classes are useful. Personally I'm glad I majored both in Global healh and epidemiology. Having the title of epidemiologist has more meaning than public health specialist depedning on where you are looking to work in the future. If you are working for an NGO in the future then global health is fine. If you want to work for CDC, WHO, etc, then having an epi background could be more beneficial.

 

[Climberak]

I'm going to give this thread a bump.

Thanks for the input so far. Jtrenier, congrats on your multiple acceptances! Come to Tulane 😀.

 

[Jtrenier]

I'm going to give this thread a bump.

Thanks for the input so far. Jtrenier, congrats on your multiple acceptances! Come to Tulane 😀.

Thanks! I was all set on going to Tulane, but then after my interview with Loyola I'm all conflicted now. At least I have a whole month to really think it over and figure out which school would be best for me.