Plan Description
This Ph.D. in IHS will provide students from different disciplines an opportunity to learn how to approach complex healthcare problems. Team science will direct this activity and will prepare students to create functioning teams to solve problems that interface with a number of different disciplines. Understanding team science concepts will better position graduates as valuable and productive research and academic collaborators who will be able to answer broader and more important translational research questions. This team science concept will form the core of the coursework in this program. These core interdisciplinary courses will be the foundation of the Ph.D.; however, students will be able to select a track or sub-plan (i.e., Nursing, Rehabilitation Sciences, Health Physics, Kinesiology) which will also have a set of discipline-specific core classes. This will allow them to apply team science concepts while developing expertise in a specialized area of study.
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Admission Requirements
Application deadlines
Applications available on the UNLV Graduate College website.
Students will be admitted into the program by the program director of the sub-plan or sub-plan Ph.D. admissions committee to which they are applying.
However, the minimum requirements of the Ph.D. in IHS are:
- An overall undergraduate/graduate GPA of 3.25 or higher
- Greater than the 50th average percentile on the quantitative, verbal, and analytic portions of the GRE (taken within the last 5 years)
- Three letters of recommendation
- Interview with two core faculty members
- A curriculum vitae
- A personal statement.
- If the applicant is from a country where English is not an official language, then the applicant must demonstrate English proficiency by scoring 80 or higher on the Test of English as a Foreign Language, by scoring 7.0 or higher on the International English Language Testing System, by earning a score of greater than the 70th percentile on the GRE-verbal, or by earning a baccalaureate or higher at a regionally accredited institution in the U.S. or in a university where English is the language of instruction.
See specific sub-plan requirements below:
Admissions Requirements - Nursing Track
Admissions Requirements - Rehabilitation Track
Admissions Requirements - Health Physics
Admissions Requirements - Kinesiology
All domestic and international applicants must review and follow the Graduate College Admission and Registration Requirements.
Students are accepted into a degree program as described in the Graduate Catalog. The faculty and corresponding sub-disciplines and sub-plans within the described programs are subject to change at any time.
Admission Requirements - Nursing Track
Students applying for the Nursing track of the Doctor of Philosophy - Interdisciplinary Health Sciences must meet the following requirements:
- A BSN or MSN from an accredited School of Nursing. Master’s degree in a health-related discipline and a BSN from an accredited institution would also meet this requirement.
- Applicants must have a current RN license in the U.S. or country of residence.
Admission Requirements - Rehabilitation Track
Students applying for the Rehabilitation track of the Doctor of Philosophy - Interdisciplinary Health Sciences must meet the following requirements:
- Have graduated from an accredited rehabilitation clinical sciences profession (e.g., physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, athletic training) at either the master’s or first-professional clinical doctoral level. If the applicant has a professional Bachelor’s degree only, then 30 additional credits of degree-consistent, graduate-level coursework (determined by the sub-plan committee) will be required.
Admission Requirements - Health Physics Track
Students applying for the Health Physics track of the Doctor of Philosophy - Interdisciplinary Health Sciences must meet the following requirements:
- Graduated with a Master’s degree from a regionally accredited institution in the field of health physics, physics, chemistry, engineering or other related field. Applicants with Bachelor degrees may be admitted to the program but are required to take an additional 30 credits of elective, degree-consistent, graduate level coursework (determined by the Health Physics Graduate Committee).
Admission Requirements - Kinesiology Track
Students applying for the Kinesiology track of the Doctor of Philosophy - Interdisciplinary Health Sciences must meet the following requirements:
- Graduated with a Master’s degree from a regionally accredited institution in the field of kinesiology/exercise science, biology, chemistry, computer science, engineering, psychology or other related field.
Plan Graduation Requirements
- The student must submit all required forms to the Graduate College and then apply for graduation up to two semesters prior to completing his/her degree requirements for both the Master’s and Doctoral portions of the program.
- The student must submit and successfully defend his/her dissertation by the posted deadline. The defense must be advertised and is open to the public.
- Student must submit his/her approved, properly formatted dissertation to the Graduate College, and submit the approved electronic version to ProQuest by the posted deadline.