Students admitted to the Indiana University School of Medicine, at any of the nine IUSM campuses, are eligible to apply to the Public Health Certificate-MD program at the Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health at IU Indianapolis.
This combination will prepare you to balance your career between direct medical care of individuals and public health practice within communities. It will also expand your career options by making you more marketable for a wide variety of careers (i.e. global health, hospital leadership, health policy, health research, nonprofit management, environmental health, and refugee and immigrant health).
The Public Health Certificate-MD (15 credits) includes five core public health courses. These courses are typically completed online during the summer after the first year of medical school; however, they can be taken at other times as well.