Indian J Public Health. 2012 Jan-Mar;56(1):22-30. doi: 10.4103/0019-557X.96953.
This paper analyzes the present processes, products and needs of post-graduate public health education for the health programming, implementation and oversight responsibilities at field level and suggests some solutions for the institutes to adopt or adapt for improving the quality of their scholars. Large number of institutions has cropped up in India in the recent years to meet the growing demand of public health specialists/practitioners in various national health projects, international development partners, national and international NGOs. Throwing open MPH courses to multi-disciplinary graduate's is a new phenomenon in India and may be a two edged sword. On one hand it is advantageous to produce multi-faceted Public health postgraduates to meet the multi tasking required, on the other hand getting all of them to a common basic understanding, demystifying technical teaching and churning out products that are acceptable to the traditional health system. These Institutions can and must influence public health in the country through producing professionals of MPH/ MD degree with right attitude and skill-mix. Engaging learners in experimentation, experience sharing projects, stepping into health professionals' roles and similar activities lead to development of relatively clear and permanent neural traces in the brain. The MPH institutes may not have all efficient faculties, for which they should try to achieve this by inviting veterans in public health and professionals from corporate health industry for interface with students on a regular basis. The corporate and public health stalwarts have the capacities to transmit the winning skills and knowledge and also inspire them to adopt or adapt in order to achieve the desired goals.
本文分析了目前研究生公共卫生教育在现场规划、实施和监督职责方面的过程、产品和需求，并为各机构提出了一些解决方案，以提高其学者的质量。近年来，印度涌现出大量机构，以满足各种国家卫生项目、国际发展伙伴、国家和国际非政府组织对公共卫生专家/从业者日益增长的需求。向多学科研究生开放公共卫生硕士课程是印度的一个新现象，可能是一把双刃剑。一方面，它有利于培养多方面的公共卫生研究生，以满足多任务的要求；另一方面，要让他们都达到共同的基本理解，消除技术教学的神秘感，培养出能被传统卫生系统接受的产品。这些机构可以而且必须通过培养具有正确态度和技能组合的公共卫生硕士/医学博士专业人员来影响国家的公共卫生。让学习者参与实验、经验分享项目、步入卫生专业人员的角色等类似活动，会导致大脑中形成相对清晰和持久的神经痕迹。公共卫生硕士机构可能没有所有高效的教师，因此他们应该尝试通过定期邀请公共卫生领域的资深人士和企业健康行业的专业人士与学生进行交流来实现这一目标。企业和公共卫生领域的资深人士有能力传授成功的技能和知识，并激励他们采用或适应这些技能和知识，以实现预期目标。
