Overview
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The PMR/F service learning experiences strengthen participants’ abilities to bridge medicine and public health in order to comprehensively address population health. Graduates are prepared to provide leadership in disease prevention and health promotion at the federal, state, local, and tribal levels, as well as internationally. Our learners include Epidemic Intelligence Service graduates (physicians, veterinarians, and other health professionals) and other comparably-trained professionals.
Preventive Medicine Residency
Has 12- and 24-month tracks for physicians depending on whether a learner needs a MPH or two years of training to fulfill board exam requirements.
- The program is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME).
- Graduates qualify to take the American Board of Preventive Medicine (ABPM) exam for the specialty of Public Health and General Preventive Medicine.
- For more information, see the ACGME Preventive Medicine Program Requirements.
Preventive Medicine Fellowship
Is a 12-month fellowship for nurses, veterinarians, and dentists with a MPH.
PMR/F Project Areas
While in the program, residents and fellows participate in activities that focus on growing and applying critical leadership and management skills. There are five specific project areas and descriptions for each are included in the menu that follows.
Program Evaluation
Conduct a comprehensive evaluation of a public health project or initiative focused on population health that is either ongoing or in development.
Possible activities:
- Identify program structure and organization, stakeholders, and components in the program environment
- Identify information sources and gather relevant data
- Plan and execute an evaluation
- Use evaluation outcomes for quality improvement
Project Management
Efficiently manage a program or project.
Possible activities:
- Plan, organize, and track program or project activities as they affects a population’s health.
- Motivate people to move toward achieving program or project objectives
- Identify and use resources to achieve program or project objectives
Policy Development and Analysis
Apply scientifically sound techniques to conduct a policy review or develop policy guidelines.
Possible activities:
- Use scientific data in forming population health policies or recommendations
- Effectively communicate the importance of recommended policies or actions to stakeholders
- Identify priorities or agendas that could facilitate or impede recommended policies or actions and make strategic adjustments accordingly to advance the policy process
Grant Proposal Evaluation and Development
Develop a grant proposal (or a portion of it) or participate in an objective review process evaluating grant applications (grant must provide essential public health services or complex budget management).
Possible activities:
- Develop either a grant proposal or a strategic plan on how to develop a grant
- Review grant applications systematically and objectively
Community Health Improvement
Plan, develop, implement, and evaluate scientifically sound population health improvement initiatives (e.g., health needs assessments, stakeholder engagement efforts, health interventions).
(Community refers to any target groups representing important stakeholders [e.g., staff, public health workers]).
Possible activities:
- Assess a community’s capacity and needs
- Identify a community’s priorities and how they can be addressed while trying to develop capacity to address a separate public health issue
- Identify a community’s resources and how they can be organized and used in a systematic and sustainable manner to provide essential public and population health services
- Page last reviewed: October 12, 2016
- Page last updated: March 24, 2017
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