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Curriculum

The Preventive Medicine Residency Program is a two-year training program that begins in the PGY-2 year. Two residents per year are accepted into the program. The entering resident physician must have completed a PGY-1 preliminary or transitional residency year prior to starting the program. MD/MPH students are highly encouraged.

Aims:

  1. Provide trainees with general preventive medicine and public health competencies and milestones specified by Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education;
  2. Prepare residents for the board certification in public health and general preventive medicine as administered by the American Board of Preventive Medicine.

PM-1 (PGY-2) Year:

For most residents, the PM-1 year will focus on completing the course work for the Master of Public Health (MPH) degree.

The residents will also rotate in 6 areas for 2-month blocks each in:

  • Chronic diseases
  • Outbreak response/Communicable Disease
  • Occupational medicine
  • One health
  • Lifestyle medicine
  • Research

Additionally, the residents will also spend one day a week in their continuity clinic at UAMS Family Medical Center in Little Rock, Arkansas.

PM-2 (PGY-3) Year:

For most residents, the PM-2 year will focus on completing the course work for the Master of Public Health (MPH) degree.

The residents will also rotate in 6 areas for 2 months each in:

  • Maternal Health/Local Public Health
  • Emergency Preparedness
  • Substance Misuse/Addiction Medicine
  • Management Project
  • Immunizations/Infectious Diseases

Electives (1-or 1- month blocks) at one of participating sites (in Health Policy, Health Informatics, or Primary care/Family Medicine Clinic)

Additionally, the residents will also spend one day a week in their continuity clinic at UAMS Family Medical Center in Little Rock, Arkansas.

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