(Part 2) Top products from r/publichealth
We found 2 product mentions on r/publichealth. We ranked the 22 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
We found 2 product mentions on r/publichealth. We ranked the 22 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
Both posts above are great advice. You have a short amount of time to accomplish as much as possible, and practical experience is invaluable if you want to be competitive in the job market. I'm in a 2-year MPH program (in Epi), and finished all the required coursework in a year and a half taking 5 classes. The workload hasn't been too bad, and having a part-time job on the side shouldn't be too much of a problem (except maybe around midterms/finals, obviously).
A friend of mine who was already in the MPH program recommended reading this book before I started, and it helped get comfortable with Epi, so I didn't feel like I was plunged into a whole new world when classes began: http://www.amazon.com/Epidemiology-Introduction-Kenneth-J-Rothman/dp/0199754551/ref=dp_ob_title_bk
First of all, public health isn't useless and boring. But you are definitely uninformed, and it's hard to tell whether to blame that on a shitty attitude or a shitty education. Probably both.
What you should do, though, is do some (inspirational) reading in public health. I'd hope that your education would have provided you with this, but I guess not, from what you are saying, so here's a few recommendations, and I hope other people here will chime in with their own: