Training Opportunities: 

Residency Training:

The FSU_COM Center for Medicine & Public Health now offers brief immersive public health training to primary care resident physicians, in partnership with local and state health agencies.  The goal of this experience is to orient all newly-trained physicians to the role public health plays in their communities, and to understand how public health fits in the larger continuum of community health and population medicine.  In addition to nurturing a new generation of public health aware physicians, the program is also part of a larger plan to cultivate a physician workforce pipeline for public health and population medicine in Florida. 

During their brief rotation, residents engage in the following activities:

• Dialogue with leaders of various programs at the state health department
• Provide patient care (TB, STI, family planning, and refugee health) in the local county health department
• Engage in local infectious disease surveillance with the local health department’s epidemiology team
• Engage in field work with school health, STI contact-tracing, community outreach, and environmental health teams
• Complete various readings and on-line tutorials related to public health
  and population medicine
• Discuss scholarly / academic evidence related to the integration of medicine and public health
• Complete a small project assessing a specific public health challenge in a specific segment of the population.

In partnership with local residency programs and the Florida Dept of Health, the FSU_COM Center for Medicine & Public Health offers the following rotations to local resident physicians training in primary care:

• Family Medicine PG-I required rotation
• Internal Medicine PG-II/III elective rotation

 

Curriculum Materials for Primary Care Residency Public Health Rotations:

• Rotation Learning Objectives
• Rotation required & supplemental readings and on-line materials
• Rotation required project description
• Sample 2-week schedule (FP PG-I required rotation)
• Population Health Book Chapter (TE Anim et al)

 

 Presentations and Webinars:

• Brief Video:  Dr. Judy Monroe, CDC Deputy Director on "What Primary Care / Public Health Integration Means"
• Brief Video:  José Montero, Vice President for population health and health systems
  integration at Cheshire Medical Center Dartmouth-Hitchcock Keene
• PPT Presentation: Making the Connection between Public Health & Primary Care

 

Academic Programs:

• AAMC Directory of Combined MD/MPH Programs
• Epidemiology Elective for Medical Students at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
• ACPM Directory of Preventive Medicine Residency Programs
• ACPM Info for Prospective Residents in Preventive Medicine

 

Curricula:

• The Public Health Imperative: Revising the Medical School Curriculum
  AAMC Reporter: May 2015
• AAFP Curriculum Guidelines for Teaching Health Promotion & Disease Prevention in Family Medicine Residencies
• Morehouse School of Medicine published article -- Innovative Ways of Integrating Public Health into the Medical School Curriculum (McNeal M & Blumenthal DS, Am J  Prev Med)
• University of Colorado published article -- Integrating Population Medicine into Primary Care Residency Training (Dysinger et al, Family Medicine)