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One of the most important features of a successful practicum program is having dedicated mentors and public health professionals employed at agencies and organizations committed to helping train tomorrow's public health workforce. The ideal practicum placement is with a mentor dedicated to providing a meaningful and enriching exposure to public health practice, reinforcing the student's didactic classroom training, and to expanding and strengthening their interdisciplinary and core discipline public health competencies. In return, we challenge students to look for ways to make a positive and lasting contribution to the programs in which they are placed.

The Masters Practicum Mentor Guidebook provides convenient access to information essential to practicum sites and mentors such as the purpose, goals and length of the practicum; student skill levels and certifications; practicum agreement and evaluation forms; a mentor’s checklist, basic core competencies for epidemiology; and the Zena Stein Excellence in Mentoring Award. It also contains an invitation to contribute short articles on your experience as a mentor/practicum site to The Practicum Times, a publication for students and mentors of public health practica.