What's inside the Public Health Practicum Logbook?

The Public Health Practicum Logbook is a paperback documentation system written by Angel Reyes, MPH, MCHES, for students completing an MPH practicum or applied practice experience (APE). Each section maps to a piece of documentation your program is likely to ask for at some point in the semester.

The core sections

• 16 weeks of daily activity logs. Space for 200+ hours of practicum activity, so you can record the date, hours, and specific activity while the details are fresh.
• CEPH competency alignment worksheets. Worksheets covering all 22 CEPH Foundational Competencies, so you can connect specific activities and deliverables to the competencies you selected.
• Weekly reflection journals. Prompts written to feed directly into your Integrative Learning Experience (ILE) paper.
• Supervisor sign-off sections. Built into every week, not saved for the end, so your preceptor verifies your hours while they still remember the work.
• Mid-point check-in and final evaluation rubrics. Structure for the two conversations where your progress gets formally reviewed.
• Resume translator worksheet. A place to turn practicum work into job-ready bullet points.

Why it's organized this way

Most practicum documentation problems come from keeping hours, competency notes, reflections, and signatures in separate places, then trying to rebuild them at the end of the term. The logbook keeps those pieces together in one place. For a full walkthrough of what good daily documentation captures, see how to document your MPH practicum.

The logbook is meant to work alongside your university's required forms, not replace them. It keeps the underlying evidence so you can fill in those forms with specifics.