Applied Practicum Experience for MCAH Students
MCAH students strengthen their leadership and practice knowledge and skills by completing an applied practicum experience. Students in the two-year, MSW/MPH, and 4+1 programs will meet this requirement through a 400-hour summer practicum (typically 10-week, full-time work experience with a host organization). Two-year MCAH students and MSW/MPH concurrent students will complete this requirement during the summer between the first and second year of the program. Students in the 4+1 program will complete this requirement the following summer after completing all coursework. Students in the 11-month program will complete the Applied Practicum Experience through an alternative requirement (i.e., a project for a community-based organization within a service-learning course)
Government, non-profit, private sector, and community-based health organizations provide internship and mentoring opportunities to MCAH students for field placements in the culturally rich and diverse communities of the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond.
Examples of recent field placement sites include:
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California Department of Public Health's Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health Division
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California Department of Public Health (CDPH) Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD) Control Branch
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Monterey County Health Department, Public Health - Maternal, Child, Adolescent Health Program
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UC Berkeley Center for Environmental Research and Community Health (CERCH)
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UCSF Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH)
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UCSF Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health - Beyond the Pill
2021 MCAH Practicum/Internship Summary
Download the summary of 2021 MCAH internships as a PDF here.
Additional summaries may be found in this Shared Google Folder linked here.