The Certificate in Implementation Science and Community Health Outcomes curriculum consists of five courses and one project for a total of 13-to-15 credit hours. Depending on your course load, you may be able to complete course requirements within two years.1 The certificate requirements are flexible in that you may propose qualifying courses to be considered as elective credit and you may adapt your master's or PhD 4 project to meet the project requirement.
POP HLTH 709 - Translational and Outcomes Research in Health and Health Care (3 credit hours) (It is recommended students have at least one or two courses in research design and/or analysis before taking this course.)
Choose from elective area: Working with Communities and Implementation Science (2-3 credit hours)2
Choose from elective area: Qualitative Research Methods Relevant to Translational and Outcomes Research (3 credit hours)2
Project (2 credit hours)
Seminar (1 credit hour)
13-15 TOTAL CREDIT HOURS3
Flow Chart: Admission through Completion
1 Sample Curricula: Four Semester and Six Semester
2 If you are a grad or professional student, at least one of your electives must be from outside your degree discipline. Your Certificate Adviser can help you identify courses that qualify as elective credit.
3 At least 50 percent of credits applied toward Certificate requirements must be taken in residence at UW-Madison.
4 Note to PhD students: You may want to start your Certificate program early enough to be finished before you start your dissertation because University policy states: “If a dissertator wants to add a program (typically a master's program) or a certificate program, he/she cannot hold dissertator fee status while pursuing a graduate degree (or certificate) in a field other than the Ph.D. program. Dissertators who add a program or a certificate program must enroll and pay fees as a regular graduate student.” https://grad.wisc.edu/acadpolicy/