The Midpoint Review.
The midpoint review is a required check-in that should occur as close to the halfway point of your practicum as possible — generally within one week, of your halfway point. The midpoint review is ultimately, a time for reflection and is now reviewed by the your preceptor, SPH practicum staff and an SPH faculty member.
In the midpoint review you will do the following:
- An opportunity to make any necessary updates.
- Explain if you are on track to complete your hours and alert us if you are not.
- Give an update on what you’ve been working on.
- Describe how you connect with your supervisor.
- Describe your required deliverables and map them to your five competencies.
- Let us know about any challenges that have occurred and what the plans are to address them.
- Give an update on your competency attainment.
- There is also a confidential box where you can provide information only seen by BUSPH, not your supervisor. This box is often used if there is a concern or challenge you are having with your practicum project, or site, that you want to alert the school about, and not have your supervisor see.
In addition to this, your preceptor will:
- Inform us on your progress and any challenges that have occurred.
- Inform us if you are on track to complete the required hours.
- Inform us on your competency attainment.
- Detail any concerns or challenges that they may wish to express to the school.
- Note: As this is essentially a performance review, it is good practice to have your supervisor provide the feedback to you in person/virtually rather than just putting it in the portal.
Please note it is very important to take your midpoint review seriously so we can have a good understanding of your progress. Be honest in your feedback and let us know about any concerns. However, please do not wait for your Midpoint review if a concern comes up that you are not sure how to handle on your own. It’s better to tackle a lot of these challenges as soon as possible.
Think of your deliverables as your major assignment for the PH976. Deliverables are tangible work products created for the benefit of your organization using advanced public health training/knowledge that will be turned into the school at the end of your practicum. You will need a minimum of two deliverables to demonstrate your competencies.
It’s very important that you discuss what your deliverables could be with your supervisor before submitting your proposal, but these do not need to be final. You will also need to be sure to tell your supervisor that the deliverables will be submitted to us for review to ensure you are complying with any non-disclosure or confidentiality agreements. Students can often work with their supervisors to find ways to redact or de-identify certain information and data to make documents shareable.
What can be a deliverable?
- Policy Briefs
- Health Communication Plans or content
- Needs Assessments
- Data Analysis Reports
- Presentations
- Quality/Process Improvement Reports
- Environmental Scans
- Program Evaluation Plans/Reports
- SAS Code Assignment
- And many many more documents can count!
What cannot be a deliverable?
- Reflection Papers
- Meeting Minutes
- Summaries of Your Duties/Work
- Performance Evaluations
- Training Certificates
- Academic Papers not written for your organization
- Or any other document that is either not created for your organization or is not something that requires advanced public health training/knowledge
Think critically when picking your competencies. They are broad to fit all aspects of public health and, while a competency may not sound 100% relatable at first read, it doesn’t mean it doesn’t relate.
Each competency must have a matching deliverable. This does not mean you need five deliverables (you need only two), but all competencies must be addressed by your submitted deliverables. A deliverable can meet more than one competency.
There must be a correlation between a competency and a deliverable. It is your job to tell us how your deliverables will meet each competency they are mapped to. Be sure to be very clear what deliverable will met each competency and then provide a description of how the deliverable will meet each.