公共卫生专业硕士留学申请要求
分类:院校介绍2021-03-05
1.1 专业背景
MPH不限制本科背景,因为它本身有多个分支,所以欢迎多个专业的学生申请。常见的本科背景如下:
· 公共卫生,公共管理(公卫方向),预防医学,临床医学,药学,生物学,生物统计,生物科技,神经科学,护理,自然科学等基础学科等
· 具有一定医学背景或公卫经历的其它学科如数学,法学, 教育学,英语等
· 管理学,经济学,统计,应用数学,计算机等
1.2 先修课要求
常见的先修课要求:
l 微积分
l 线性代数
l 概率与统计/统计课程
l Human biology类课程
1. 可以考虑通过修读二学位,辅修学位,参加美国暑校,或者修网课等方式弥补。常用网站:Coursera,Edx, MOOC,Udacity等
2. 国内的课程名与课程内容与国外不尽一致,有部分课程可能涵盖以下课程内容,比如高等数学涵盖微积分和线性代数,建议老师们与学生给予选课建议时与学生进行讨论后确定。
1.3 申请方式和申请Checklist
美国的公共卫生项目大部分是通过SOPHAS系统递交申请,也有部分院校是通过学校自己的网申系统来申请,如UC Davis和University of Washington的公共卫生项目。SOPHAS既Schools of Public Health Application Service,故名思义,就是帮助学生申请公卫专业的机构。
申请Checklist
Official transcripts from all schools attended(WES认证)
Official test scores – GRE/GMAT, TOEFL
Letters of recommendation (哥大的明确提出要提供官方邮箱提交推荐信)
Personal statement(有的学校需要PHS,UCB, Umich, UCI,UCD等)
Resume/CV
需注意:1. 国际生成绩单需要做WES认证,海本成绩单需要在Sophas系统录入(可以交费录入,也可以手动录入);2. 送分和成绩单要求(SOPHAS或院校或both);3. 截止日期:各个院校不一样。
1.4 背景提升
除了硬件成绩,建议在校期间或者在寒暑假期间参加一些相关的科研和实习,提升自己的申请竞争力。
科研:建议参与一些相关领域的科研如参与生物学,化学,神经科学,医学,药学领域的科研项目,进行数据收集,分析和处理,然后做出评估和预测等。可以通过参与校内实验室项目,国内外高校暑研项目, 科研所的实习等来提升自己的科研能力。
实习:
· 社区卫生服务机构,医院,医院传染科,预防保健科,感染科,疾病控制与预防中心,卫生监督局,防疫站等卫生机构
· NGO
· 咨询公司、证券公司、银行、保险公司等金融经济类公司,从事风险控制、市场调查等岗位;
· 医药研发公司、生物科技公司、医疗设备公司、统计局、环保局等机构从事数据调查和分析的岗位;
活动:
· 相关的志愿者,暑期实践活动(例如设计问卷做调查,录入数据,处理数据,分析数据写报告等)
参加相关的实习,科研及活动除了提升自己的软实力背景以外,还能展现自己对公卫的兴趣和决心(公卫专业注重commitment)。
范例:
医院或者医疗机构
Beijing Cancer Hospital / Peking University Cancer Hospital 07/2013- 06/2015
§ Position: Chief Resident
- Made initial management plan; Did surgery, participated in department consultations;
- Conducted daily affairs for patients and communicated with patients and their families;
- Assumed teaching work for new resident doctors;
- Established standardization work process; Developed and designed the databank-based office software for chief resident and data Analysis based Performance Evaluation System;
- Formed the accepted work flow which improved utilization of beds by 15% and monthly operation quantity by 16.6%;
- Gained the title of excellent youth doctor;
- Participated in national academic conference and gave speeches on behalf of our department;
北京肿瘤医院 / 北京大学肿瘤医院
职位:总住院医师
- 为患者制定初步诊疗计划,参与外科手术治疗,院内科室间会诊
- 管理安排患者出入院、安排手术顺序等事务性工作
- 年轻住院医师教学工作
- 制定了标准化工作流程,并主导设计开发了基于数据库系统的工作软件,建立了基于数据分析的工作考核体系
- 担任总住院医师期间,使得科室床位使用率较前提高15%,月均手术量提高16.6%。
- 被评为院级优秀青年医生
- 多次代表科室参加学术会议并发言
Volunteer May 2013 – June 2014
Care Extender Internship, Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, USA
· Co-worked with nurses and physicians for patient care in various departments (i.e., department of dialysis, department of oncology, emergency room)
· Observed healthcare professionals conducting various medical procedures (i.e., chest CT scan, suturing, fracture fixation)
· Collected data through communicating with patients for annual UCLA health system patient satisfaction survey
医药研发公司或者生物科技公司
MSD R&D Co., Ltd (known as Merck & Co., in the U.S), Beijing, CHN 06/2012 to present Position: Lead Clinical Data Manager 08/2015- present
· Ensure clinical data quality of 5 global clinical trials, including infectious disease and endocrine trials
· Serve as the leader of the global data operation team, including Senior Clinical Data Manager, Clinical Data Manager
· Accountable for all protocol level start-up, in-life and database lock tasks and activities performed by Clinical Data Managers
· Interact and communicate with internal and external stakeholders
· Design, validate, and approve data management tool specifications
· Execution of user acceptance testing of data management tools
· Present meetings materials based on business need and management decision
· Ensure global operational issues are identified
· Execute and ensure adherence to a metrics control plan and quality assessment indicators at the trial level.
· Coordinate the database lock preparation and monitoring of checks
· Execute staff training and mentoring, deliver programs to instruct staff regarding business processes
· Monitor for opportunities to improve efficiency, effectiveness and quality and implement changes
Position: Senior Clinical Data Manager 09/2014 - 08/2015
· Executed end to end data management activities related to 6-7 clinical trials
· Creation and review of data management tool specifications and tools
· Studied level status assessment
· Monitored protocol level cycle time performance
· Trained new staff through mentoring
· Maintained Tier 2 relationships between China Data Management Center and Accenture builders (programmer for data discrepancy report)
· Served as a member of the standard data discrepancy report development team
Yiyishen Biotechnology Co., Ltd Shanghai, China
Data Analyst Intern 07/2019 – 09/2019
上海益宜申生物科技有限公司 数据分析实习生
Part 1: Large-scale Image Data Processing
l Executed batch processing of large datasets of high-resolution images using customized scripts in ImageJ macros for automated noise reduction, pixel data extraction and image file rearrangement
l Integrated, restructured dataset for easy access, manipulation, and filtering based on research requirements
l Produced frequency distribution histograms, quantile plots, time-based box plots to identify data anomalies, patterns and correlations, calculating mean, variance, and p-value in two-tailed test
Part 2: Large-scale 3D Image Data Processing
l Originated solution for analyzing brightness distribution in 3D images based on observations of dataset in Kurumi
l Created heat maps in R to get planar images of grayscale dot matrix for each cross section of 3D images, to represent brightness with sum of gray intensity values in each planar image
l Performed comparative analysis using plots with brightness as horizontal axis and cross-section-depth as vertical axis
l Normalized data to eliminate points out of analytical range; compared areas under curve among cross sections
校内实验室科研
Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette 02/2017-05/2018
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Research Mentor: Prof. **
Research Project: Engineering Folate Receptor – Mediated Drug Using Solid Phase Synthesis
² Background:
· Elevated expression of the folate receptor occurred in many human malignancies, especially when associated with aggressively growing cancers;
· Folate receptors bound to folate and reduced folic acid derivatives mediates the delivery of tetrahydrofolate to the interior of cells;
· Folate receptors bound to extracellular folates with very high affinity, through an endocytic process, physically delivers them inside the cell for biological consumption.
² Responsibilities:
· Assisted Prof. ** in conducting a solid phase drug module synthesis experiment designed for FA-based SMDC (small-molecule drug conjugates);
· Gained hours of training on various fundamental biochemistry lab techniques and participated in a range of hands-on laboratory work;
· Involved in the chemical component of doctoral drug research and independently completed various solid phase synthesis used to synthetize the fragment-based drugs in development;
· Assisted in finishing a series of tasks, including PCR, electrophoresis, purifying DNA, and determining the concentration of DNA, etc.;
· Independently operated HPLC/LCMS for the separation and purification of substances and the determination of their molecular weights;
· Participated in Biology Honors Seminar, making presentations while writing my undergraduate research thesis;
· 参与科研导师**的FA-based SMDC (small-molecule drug conjugates)设计项目,协助导师进行药物模块的合成实验;
· 参加生化实验技能和知识的培训,提高了实验设备运用和动手能力
· 独立完成多种固相合成,用于合成正在研发中的药物片段
· 帮助完成一系列的实验操作包括PCR、电泳疗法、 DNA的提取和纯化,LCMS、HPLC
· 独立操作HPLC/LCMS进行物质分离纯化和分子量的测定
· 参与进行Biology Honor Seminar, 做PPT展示研究进展, 撰写biology honor thesis
Dr. Clare Hasenkampf’s lab at University of Toronto Lab Assistant, 04/2016-08/2017
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Participated in a series of lab work including lab maintenance, DNA analysis, data recording, etc.
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Studied the influence of two transcription factors BP and FIL on the DNA of Arabidopsis;
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Collected abundant plant samples and performed DNA testing one by one;
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Established and sorted the well-organized sample database;
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Successfully completed the lab task of collecting, analyzing plenty of samples in limited time orderly and recording DNA phenotype;
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实验室科研助理
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主要负责实验室维护,DNA分析和数据记录等工作
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研究两个transcription factorBP和FIL在植物Arabidopsis的DNA的作用
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实验中需要采集大量植物的样本并进行逐个DNA检测
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规划并整理了有序的样本库
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在有限的时间里进行了大量但有条理的样本采集和DNAphenotype记录
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University of Zhejiang, Life Science Institute, the Zhao Lab Hangzhou, China
Research intern 07/2017–09/2017
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Involved in the research about molecular and cellular origin of organ size control in animals and the related abnormalities that leads to liver cancer
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Performed cell culture, PCR, RT-PCR, electrophoresis, western-blot on mice liver cancer cells
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Researched patterns of differentially expressed genes in Liver Hepatocellular Carcinoma (LIHC) patients with specific driver gene mutations for further experiment animal model genemanipulation
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Completed three sets of differential gene analysis using heat maps
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Downloaded RSEM data from TCGA database, filtered out patients with certain driver gene mutations, selected genes with large variance using R and imported the selected data into Genesis for heat map making
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Performed median-center normalization for both samples and genes and average linkage hierarchical clustering on heat map and found out any other concurring mutations on patients for crossing analysis
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