Bridging graduate education in public health and the liberal arts

C.M. Aelion, A.C. Gubrium, F. Aulino, E.L. Krause and T.L. Leatherman

American Journal of Public Health, 2015, vol. 105, S78-S82

Abstract: The University of Massachusetts Amherst is part of Five-Colleges Inc, a consortium that includes the university and four liberal arts colleges. Consortium faculty from the School of Public Health and Health Sciences at the university and from the colleges are working to bridgeliberal arts with public health graduate education. Weoutline four key themes guiding this effort and exemplary curricular tools for innovative community-based and multidisciplinary academic and research programs. The structure of the consortium has created a novel trajectory for student learning and engagement, with important ramifications for pedagogy and professional practice in public health. We show how graduate public health education and liberal arts can, and must, work in tandemto transform public health practice in the 21st century.

Keywords: academic achievement; cultural anthropology; curriculum; education; human; humanities; medical education; organization and management; problem based learning; procedures; school; teaching; United States, Computer-Assisted Instruction; Culture; Curriculum; Education, Graduate; Education, Public Health Professional; Humanities; Humans; Massachusetts; Problem-Based Learning; Schools, Public Health (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2014.302467

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