College of Public Health

The SEAMEO - TropMed Regional Centre for Public Health, Hospital Administration, Environmental and Occupational Health

College of Public Health

UP Manila                625 Pedro Gil Street, Ermita Manila

                                                               Tel. No. 63-2-5242703 Fax No. 63-2-5211394

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MASTER'S DEGREE PROGRAMS

 

 

MASTER OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH

 

Admission Requirements

Graduates with professional training in medicine and those with a baccalaureate degree in nursing, dentistry, engineering, and relat­ed fields, preferably with one year work experience.

 

Graduation Requirements

The degree of Master of Occupational Health (MOH) shall be awarded upon fulfillment of the following requirements:

 

  1. The student shall have been in residence for at least one full aca­demic year previous to the granting of the degree.

  2. The student must complete either:

    a) Plan "A": at least 36 units (30 units of academic courses and 6 units of thesis); or

    b) Plan "B": at least 36 units of academic courses ­and pass a written compre­hensive examination to be given by an examining committee. [Only one (1) reexam is allowed]

  3. courses taken provided there is no grade of “5.0”.

 

Curriculum

Course No. Course Title  Units
OH 201    Principles and Methods of Occupational Health   2
OH 202  Industrial Hygiene Technology 2
OH 203   Industrial Toxicology        2
OH 204  Environmental Physiology   2
OH 205 Environmental Pollution  1
OH 206  Workplace Surveys  2
OH 207 Health Maintenance in the workplace   2
Biostat 201  Fundamentals of Biostatistics I     3
Epi 201  Principles of Epidemiology 3
HPAD 201 Principle of Health Administration  2
HPAD 202   Practice of Health Administration   2
OH 280 Occupational Health Field Practice 3
TOTAL    26 units

 

                                                                          

 

Elective Courses Units
     a) Plan AA@ 4
     b) Plan AB@ 10
     
OH 208    Occupational Diseases    2
OH 213   Occupational Lung Diseases   2
OH 209

Disability Evaluation, Labor Legislation and  Forensic Medicine              

   2
OH 210      Workplace Sanitation 1
OH 211 Industrial Safety 2
OH 214   Fundamentals & Principles of Ergonomics 2
OH 214.1  Applied Ergonomics       2
OH 299  Special Studies and Research   2
OH 297  Seminar on Occupational Health and Safety  1

 

 

Other electives shall be taken from related graduate courses offered in CPH and the other UP units to complete unit requirement for the Master=s program as approved by the adviser.

 

Master=s Thesis (Plan AA@) 6 units

Comprehensive Examination (Plan AB@)

 

Maximum Credit Load

A maximum of 40 units credit load may be allowed depending on the ability or needs of the student for additional competencies.

 

1. At least one (1) full academic year for regular full time students.

2. At least (4) semesters for those in the MOH flexitime program (evening and Saturday classes).

 


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