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- Leadership and ethics
- Facility at working with diverse populations
- Communication – writing, public speaking and presenting materials effectively
- Negotiation skills
- Decision making with varying levels of evidence
- Research design and analytical approaches (quantitative and qualitative)
- Problem solving
- Managing people/human resources
- Innovations in new analytic and management technologies
- Performance measures and contracting
- Project management
- Budgeting/financial management/contracting
- Teamwork and collaboration
- Foundations of policymaking and history of public policy
- Campaigning/swaying public opinion
Virtual Information Session
Click here to view the recorded information session delivered to MS1 students on March 1, 2021.
Curriculum
Courses:
Common Core (6 courses)
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Research practicum carried out by a group of 10 to 15 students under faculty direction for a public policy client
Sample Schedule:
| Fall Semester | Spring Semester | May-mester |
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| Communications | Public Management | Elective: Grant Writing Program Evaluation Cost-Benefit Analysis |
| Introductory Empirical Methods | Advanced course in Methods, Economics, PM or PFM | |
| Applied Microeconomics for Policy Analysis | Advanced course in Methods, Economics, PM or PFM | |
| Policy Development | Policy Research Project | |
Public Financial Management | Elective |
The internship requirement is waived for MD/MPAff dual degree students.
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This program is only for third-year Dell Medical School students who are accepted into the Public Affairs dual degree program. In order to apply for the MD/MPAff dual degree program, students must be in good academic standing at Dell Medical School.
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