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shaketheshock

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    Victoria, BC
  • Application Season
    2014 Fall
  • Program
    Social Dimensions of Health MA

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  1. I was told by the person who wrote me that the coruse based degree is preferred by employers because it apparently prepares graduates with more broad public health knowledge. I e-mailed back to ask about my career goals and if it would still be a fit and I haven't heard back yet. Neither school has said a thing to me about funding and apparently nobody will know for months - yet we are supposed to accept or decline right now. What worries me is that there is no capstone project (and not sure about doing an independent research study??) for the course based MPH either. I think in order to keep myself as specialized in mental health as possible I will stick with my mental health-based thesis. What do you guys think? Is everyone else doing a thesis??
  2. Thanks for responding, yeah I would also be pretty bummed not being able to do the research I am interested in - in addition to the course-based MPH being at a lesser-ranked school (though the applicability of the rankings is questionable if you ask me). Hrmm..
  3. Which one are you doing, and why? What is your career goal? I've been offered a spot at the second place I applied to, but they don't have anyone that could supervise my thesis so I am going through some pretty hefty pros and cons at the moment. I have to admit, part of wanting to do a thesis is for the ego boost. What I'd like to do is go into public mental health/mental health policy analysis.
  4. I am most interested in stigma as well, along with discourse. My specific interest at the moment is the stigma and discourse associated with certain mental health diagnoses more than others. I'd love to have a hand in creating policy that abolished this stigma and discourse. Policy that honoured those with lived experience rather than discriminating against them.
  5. That sounds awesome, and along the lines of what I would like to do. Will you be looking at self-stigma and how that affects people's access to mental health care? Like, designing communications to combat that?
  6. Is there a particular area of healthcare you're looking at?
  7. I think I might do the same thing, e-mail and ask lakehead when they'll have decisions for applications submitted early March. Do you think that would be bothersome?
  8. I am currently in the UVic BSW program (finishing in August), and I know this probably won't help but I remember finding out near the end of April in 2012 when I was accepted. I found out much earlier from TRU but UVic was my first choice. I also wanted to pitch in that I absolutely love the program Good luck!
  9. I wanted to say thanks to both of you for the encouraging words - when I feel like I've lost hope it makes such a huge difference to hear that others have not. Thank you for reminding me that there are still some rays of sunshine left - and that I should be noticing them!
  10. I'm still interested in what other folks are planning to go into once they get their degrees - come on, there's lots of us on these forums! What are you planning on doing for a job with your MPH? Like I said above, I'm very interested in public mental health and how to reduce unecessary suffering (specifically due to the stigma and self-stigma related to mental health diagnoses).
  11. Wow you guys sure have your sh*t together, well done! Definitely more prepared than I am.. I have a solid GPA and solid references, but I'm just finishing my first degree in social work. I worked in healthcare for 4 years but I'm not sure if that's the kind of work they are looking for (I was a care aide with the elderly in the hospitals here). I guess we'll see!
  12. Those that got accepted into Lakehead - could you please share your stats?
  13. I sent my official (and uploaded my unofficial) transcripts - I just don't think this is what they mean by proof of degree?
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