Students should begin planning for the applied practice experience in the first semester of the master of public health program. Prior to enrollment, students should review the experience requirements, identify career goals and know the available resources to find an applied practice experience.
Planning your experience
- Review the student experience page to review what other students have done for their Applied Practice Experience (APE).
- Explore opportunities through Handshake, career fairs, the college's weekly e-newsletter, the My Career Plan Carmen page, and your faculty advisor.
- Identify a site or agency contact to serve as a site preceptor. If you are planning to complete your APE outside the United States, please be aware that there are additional requirements that must be followed, including registering your travel through the Office of International Affairs Travel Registration page: https://oia.osu.edu/global-health-and-safety/travel-registration.
- Work with a faculty advisor and site preceptor to develop goals, competencies and proposed deliverables.
How to enroll in the applied practice experience
- When you have followed the planning steps above you should complete the APE Learning Agreement found below and save the PDF file of the learning agreement after completion.
- Once you complete the learning agreement, the Office of Academic Programs and Student Services (OAPSS) will add you and your faculty advisor to the APE Carmen course so that you may track your progress and receive communications about the APE in one central place. Additionally, your learning agreement will be routed to both your preceptor and your faculty advisor to review and approve.
- After those two approvals are received and you have uploaded your learning agreement to the Carmen course, the OAPSS office will add the APE course to your schedule (PUBHLTH 7189) for 2 credit hours.
2024-2025 MPH Learning Agreement
Preview the learning agreement
This is the learning agreement that is only to be used by students admitted to the Master of Public Health/Master of Social Work dual degree program.
MPH/MS-Dentistry Learning Agreement
This is the learning agreement that is only to be used by students admitted to the Master of Public Health/Master of Science in Dentistry dual degree program.
APE Requirements for Biomedical Informatics and Clinical Translational Science students
Please read the Integrated APE and ILE Handbook for specific requirements for your specialization.
Biomedical Informatics Handbook
Clinical Translational Science Handbook
Experience setting
An experience may involve governmental, non-governmental, non-profit, industrial and for-profit settings or appropriate university-affiliated settings with community partners. The college offers resources and assistance for students to find experiences that are beneficial to them and the site with which they will work.
Applied Practice Experience end-of-semester deliverables
During the Applied Practice experience, students demonstrate attainment of at least five program competencies, three of which must be foundational competencies. At the conclusion of the experience, each student will need to ensure the following deliverables have been submitted in order to earn a Satisfactory grade:
- Final report
- Two work products
- 2024-2025 APE Student Evaluation - Students are required to download their evaluation from Qualtrics and then upload it to the APE Carmen page.
- 2024-2025 Preceptor Evaluation
- 2024-2025 Faculty Advisor Rubric for Evaluating the Applied Practice Experience
Note: Students who will not complete the applied practice experience by the deadline should notify their faculty advisor, preceptor and the senior career counselor. Students will receive an incomplete and will have until the following semester to finish the requirements.
