M.D.-M.P.H. dual degree program overview

The OHSU M.D.-M.P.H. dual degree program is a five-year program jointly sponsored by the OHSU School of Medicine and the OHSU-PSU School of Public Health.

This program is specifically designed for students who demonstrate:

1. A potential for excellent performance in both the M.D. and the M.P.H. curricula, and
2. A firm commitment to, and potential for, a career in which the population-based clinical practice model (a medicine-public health model) would be particularly useful — or in which the combined degree would prepare students for enhanced career productivity in clinical and public health policy, programs or research.

The dual degree program follows a quasi-integrated curriculum designed to allow selected students to complete the requirements for both the Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) and the Master of Public Health (M.P.H.) degrees within five years. The curriculum is quasi-integrated in the sense that we expect M.D.-M.P.H. students to be engaged in formal or informal public health-related study throughout their tenure at OHSU. Students in the M.D.-M.P.H. dual degree program complete the M.P.H. with either an Epidemiology concentration or a Health Management and Policy concentration to provide them with the tools to be successful in whatever area of clinical medicine and public health they choose. 

Students will also have opportunities to pursue specific areas of public health interests in two ways:

1. Through elective courses in other M.P.H. tracks, and
2. By engaging in a Practice Experience and a final Integrative Project to address these interests.