What is the specialty of Public Health and General Preventive Medicine?
Within the field of Preventive Medicine, the specialty of Public Health and General Preventive Medicine links clinical medicine with medical management, research, and population health. Our program, residents/fellows, and graduates address health promotion and modifying or eliminating the risks of disease, injury, disability, and death. Our residents and fellows are exposed to preventive medicine and population health through a curriculum involving didactics, governmental public health practice, clinical care, program and policy assessment, and research.
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Overall Educational and Training Goals
The overall educational and training goals of the Emory’s Preventive Medicine Residency and Fellowship Program are to ensure that preventive medicine residents and fellows:
- Attain the competencies specified by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) as assessed by respective ACGME milestones
- Possess the knowledge, skills, and abilities in preventive medicine that can be applied effectively in multiple settings (e.g., government, academia, health care systems, communities) to improve population health
- Are prepared for taking the board certification examination in Public Health and General Preventive Medicine as administered by the American Board of Preventive Medicine.
The ACGME requires that the following core competencies be integrated within the curriculum of preventive medicine residency and fellowship programs.
- Patient care and procedural skills
- Medical knowledge
- Practice-based learning and improvement
- Interpersonal and communication skills
- Professionalism
- Systems-based practice.
The ACGME also has created a set of milestones for each of the core competencies; the milestones help to shape the Emory Preventive Medicine Residency and Fellowship Program’s curriculum and to provide a framework for assessing individual preventive medicine resident's and fellow's progress. Our curriculum is designed to support residents and fellows in their achievement of the competencies, as measured by attainment of the milestones, as well as other residency/fellowship core requirements specified by the ACGME.