Program name: | Public Health and Health Care Policy |
Study Level: | Graduate |
Program leader: | Tamar Lobjanidze Vasil Tkeshelashvili |
Study language: | Georgian |
Qualification: | Master of Public Health and Health Policy |
Program capacity: | 120 |
Program permission: | Enrollment of students at the second level of higher education (master's program) is carried out in accordance with the results of the unified national exams or the order of the Minister of Education and Science of Georgia No. 224/N (December 29, 2011), passing the internal university exam (English language) and passing the administrative registration after the oral interview in the specialty and Based on the order of the rector. The program is open to suitably qualified graduates from single-level and undergraduate programs in the broad field of health and social welfare. |
Program goals: | The goal of the program is to train highly qualified specialists in the field of public health and health policy, whose professional activities will contribute to the improvement of the health and global health of the country's population and the growth of well-being. Graduates of the Master's program will have a deep understanding of the determinants of health and their management at the local, national and global levels, will be able to develop health policy goals and strategies, promote implementation and evaluate the results achieved. The graduate will have the opportunity to be employed in legislative, executive structures and public organizations, as well as in international and local non-governmental organizations focused on public health and health policy directions, in medical institutions and insurance companies in the appropriate positions of manager/leader, public health specialist/analyst. |
Methods for Attaining Learning Outcomes: | • Lecture-seminars • Method of working on the book • Explanatory method • Demonstration method • Use of video-audio training material • Interactive lessons • Situational tasks • Analysis of news • Conducting small studies • Asking problems and solving them • Critical analysis • Discussion • Group assignments • Projects • Exercises focused on problem solving • Case study and analysis (case study) • Literature review • Method of working on the book • Finding relevant material in electronic format or in the library • Writing topics • Presenting presentations • Verbal, i.e. oral method • Induction, deduction, analysis and synthesis |
Learning outcomes: | |
Date of approval: | 09-02-2005 |
Approval protocol number: | 12-12 |
Date of program update: | |
Update protocol number: | 45-20 |
Program details: | In the field of public health, the student performs research, writes abstracts and projects, makes presentations of the obtained results. |
Teaching Process Characteristics: | To obtain the academic degree of Master of Public Health and Health Policy, the student needs to accumulate 120 ECTS, which means the main subjects of the program - 105 ECTS (including the completion of the master's thesis - 30 ECTS), elective subjects - 15 ECTS, which the student chooses from the 30 ECTS of the offered subjects. |
Code | Subject | ECTS | Semester |
MPHP 5110 | Public Healthcare and Policy | 15 | 1 |
MPHP 6200 | Master Thesis | 30 | 4 |
MPHP5130 | Epidemiology and Biostatistics | 8 | 1 |
MPHP5140 | Research Methods | 7 | 1 |
MPHP 5210 | Global Health | 15 | 2 |
MPHP 5220 | Healthcare management and economics | 15 | 2 |
MPHP6110 | Research practice in public health | 15 | 3 |
Credits sum: | 105 |
Code | Subject | ECTS | |
MPHP 6120 | Environmental health and Policy | 15 | |
MPHP 6140 | Behavioural changes and health promotion | 15 | |
Credits sum: | 30 |
Point | GPA | The university assessment | The general assessment in Georgia | |
97-100 | 4,00 | A+ | A | Excellent |
94-96 | 3,75 | A | ||
91-93 | 3,50 | A- | ||
87-90 | 3,25 | B+ | Very good | |
84-86 | 3,00 | B | B | |
81-83 | 2,75 | B- | ||
77-80 | 2,50 | C+ | C | good |
74-76 | 2,25 | C | ||
71-73 | 2,00 | C- | ||
67-70 | 1,75 | D+ | D | Satisfactory |
64-66 | 1,50 | D | ||
61-63 | 1,25 | D- | ||
51-60 | 1,00 | E | E | Sufficient |
Not passed | ||||
41-50 | FX | FX | Insufficient | |
<40 | F | F | Failed |