JD/PhD in Health Services Research, Policy & Administration: Sample Plan

Note: ** indicates credits that are expected to be cross-counted by the units, e.g., Law School credits expected to cross-count for Graduate School or Public Health credit.

JD/PhD in Health Services Research, Policy & Administration
(with a Policy Concentration):

year one

Law School first-year curriculum (30 Law credits total)

• LAW 6006 Civil Procedure (6 credits)
  
• LAW 5007 Constitutional Law (6 credits)
  
• LAW 6001 Contracts (4 credits)
  
• LAW 6009 Criminal Law (3 credits)
  
• LAW 6003 Legal Research and Writing (3 credits)
  
• LAW 6004 Property (4 credits)
  
• LAW 6005 Torts (4 credits)

LAW 6875 Joint Degree Program Proseminar (1 credit)

year two

Public Health required courses (a total of 38-45 core course credits depending on the chosen Area of Emphasis). Click here Public Health course descriptions.

• PubH 7400 Fundamentals of Biostatistical Inference (4 credits)
• PubH 6832 Economics of the Health Care System (3 credits)
• PubH 8810 Seminar: Research Studies in Health Care (3 credits)
• PubH 7400 Biostatistical Modeling & Methods (4 credits)
• PubH 8820 Health Economics I (3 credits)
• PubH 6855 Medical Soc (3 credits)
• Begin taking classes in the Area of Emphasis.

LAW 6875 Joint Degree Program Proseminar (1 credit)

year three

Public Health required courses

• PubH 8805 Sociological Theory in Health Services Research (3 credits)
• PubH 8811 Research Studies in Health Care (3 credits)
• PubH 8801 Health Services Policy Analysis Theory (3 credits)
• PubH 8831 Writing for Research (2 credits)
• PubH 6742 Ethics in Public Health: Research and Policy (1 credit)
• PubH 8831 Writing for Research (2 credits)
• PubH 6341 Epidemiological Methods I (3 credits)
• Take additional courses in the Area of Emphasis.

Electives in Law (to add up to 58 upper-level Law credits total)**
LAW 6875 Joint Degree Program Proseminar (1 credit)

years four & five

Law and Public Health courses and other requirements (need 58 Law credits (minus those cross-counted above) and at least 12 Public Health credits in the supporting area or minor, which may have been started in year three)--

• Finish remaining Public Health coursework
• Professional Responsibility (6600; 3 Law credits)
  
• Second-year writing requirement (moot court (2 Law credits) or law review (3-6 Law credits))
  
• complete preliminary written and oral examinations (Public Health)
  
• file dissertation title, register for 24 thesis credits, and begin dissertation research (Public Health)

LAW 6875 Joint Degree Program Proseminar (1 credit each year)

year six

Law courses and other requirements--

• complete Law courses listed above
  
• complete dissertation (satisfying the third-year writing requirement in the Law School)**
  
• take final oral examination defending dissertation

LAW 6875 Joint Degree Program Proseminar (1 credit)