<p>The DO school my D got admitted to offer an MPH degree in addition to the physician degree. There is no fee to apply, just fill out a form and you are automatically enrolled. You just have to spend more money to get that degree, some thing like 30 credits.</p>
<p>Do you think there is a value to it? Is it worth another $50K ish tuition?</p>
<p>There is value if you want to go into academics in a clinical research track. In my opinion, it is more useful to get the MPH later, during post-doctoral training (residency, fellowship) once you have a significant project that is likely to be carried forward into early faculty career. Every MD in a fellowship can walk into their local school of public health and enroll for an MPH, often with significant tuition reduction, so there is probably little benefit to doing it early.</p>
<p>I can’t relate teaching to mph, please advice. </p>
<p>if your D doesn’t want to do public health then it’s literally a complete waste of time/money. If she does, it still depends - I also agree with waiting though because if your D does well in med school she can get into a more prestigious MPH later on.</p>
<p>MPH seems to be an odd thing in terms of why kids want to do it. Some schools offer it on the side and you are paying extra tuition to finish within the same 4 years while others are offering it as a free standing course almost free of charge or like a full scholarship. Some kids are doing it to bolster their credentials for going into academics while others are taking a gap year to do other things naming MPH as one of the things covered during the gap year.</p>
<p>I know three different people who did and how they did it. One worked on it as part of the regular med school and his dad mentioned having to pay additional tuition to have to cover for MPH along with the first 2 years of MD (almost 25-30k in extra tuition at a big name private).</p>
<p>Another went from med school in Texas to JHU. I questioned the point of going to JHU for a whole year in the middle of MD and I was told why not, it was almost free (I am sure at least the tution was).</p>
<p>A third stayed in Texas although he received lot of reduction in cost at big name privates on east coast. His reasoning for staying for MPH at his own med school was to keep the med school/hospital credentials which he said would not be issued to him at another med school. However, this person also spent most of the year doing research since the MPH part of it occupied only 15-20 hrs/per week while he was used to a 90-100 hr/wk schedule during the first 3 years.</p>
<p>All three are ambitious, aiming for tough specialties for residency or top name residencies. The first two ended up at number 1 residencies for their specialties while the third is interviewing now.</p>
<p>I’m not sure what the value is. We have recently moved, and our new internist has a MPH. I should ask him what is the value. </p>
<p>If I were to take a guess (and this guess would be random and assumed…lol ), I’m thinking that since he is a primary care physician, dealing with the masses, infectious diseases, etc, then his MPH may have some value? </p>
<p>I don’t see how it’s worth the extra money.</p>
<p>@artloversplus are you very affluent? </p>
<p>^^m2ck
No by no means we are affluent. There is no reason to throw 50K out of the door if that is of little value. </p>
<p>lol! I agree! </p>
<p>Does a student have to decide from the get go?</p>
<p>I think so. Part of the interview was to promote the Mph program. Lol. </p>
<p>Is the program being covered within the 4 years like the private I mentioned?</p>
<p>I think if she is serious, she could go to another school free of charge for a gap year.</p>
<p>Texaspg</p>
<p>It’s like the first case you described.
Not sure if D is serious or not, but the school offers to every admitted student. </p>