Newswise — Dr. Phillip J. Landrigan, Chairman of the Irving Selikoff Department of Community and Preventive Medicine of Mount Sinai Medical Center, has announced that the Master of Public Health (MPH) degree program at Mount Sinai has now been fully accredited by the Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH), the North American accrediting body in public health education.
This accreditation marks the culmination of a two-year process that began with an extensive self-study led by Dr. John Doucette, Assistant Professor, Community and Preventive Medicine the director of the program. That self-study was followed by a site visit last October. Dr. Doucette and Dr. Landrigan made the final oral arguments before the Council. The program has now secured full accreditation for a three-year period, the typical duration of accreditation for new programs.
Within the coming academic year, the program is expected to expand by developing three new specialty tracks - clinical effectiveness, global public health, and environmental health. Also in the planning stage is an additional collaboration with Dr. Angela Diaz of the Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center to explore the possibility of developing a track in adolescent health. Until now the program has been undifferentiated, without distinct specialty tracks, although students with different interests have pursued divergent electives and thesis topics.
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The Mount Sinai Hospital is one of the nation's oldest, largest and most-respected voluntary hospitals. Founded in 1852, Mount Sinai today is a 1,171-bed tertiary-care teaching facility that is internationally-acclaimed for excellence in clinical care. Last year, more than 48,000 people were treated at Mount Sinai as inpatients, more than 84,000 received care in the emergency department, and the outpatient department recorded nearly 490,000 visits.
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Mount Sinai School of Medicine is internationally-recognized as a leader in ground-breaking clinical and basic-science research, as well as innovative approaches to medical education. Mount Sinai ranks 9th among the nation's 125 medical schools in the percentage of graduates who go on to faculty positions in medical schools across the country.
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