Membership of the Faculty of Public Health (MFPH) Syllabus

Membership of the Faculty of Public Health (MFPH) covers 8 subjects: Research Methods, Epidemiology and Statistics, Disease Prevention, Health Promotion and Screening, Health Protection and Communicable Disease Control, Health Improvement and the Wider Determinants of Health, Health Care Public Health and Service Evaluation, Health Economics, Decision Science and Health Information, Public Health Policy, Management and Leadership and Ethics, Law and Professional Practice in Public Health. Together they contain 34 chapters and 153 named topics.

The full Membership of the Faculty of Public Health (MFPH) outline breaks down into 34 chapters, 153 topics and 119 sub-topics. Research Methods, Epidemiology and Statistics is the largest single subject with 25 topics across 5 chapters.

Roughly 140 hours for one full pass. That estimate allows about 45 minutes per topic plus 12 minutes per sub-topic, so it is first-pass coverage — revision, past papers and mock tests sit on top of it. At 3 hours a day that is about 7 weeks.

Yes — 451 question-and-answer flashcards across 8 decks, one per subject, written against this syllabus. A sample of every deck is readable on this site for free, and the complete decks are in the Examius app.

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