Director: David N. Goldberg, MD
1835 West Harrison
Chicago, IL 60612
Phone: 312.903.8172
Fax: 312.633.8333
E-mail: David_Goldberg@rush.edu
Internet: *

Total Number of Residents: 2

Tracks/Areas of Emphasis:
Clinical Preventive Medicine
Epidemiology
Health Behavior Modification
Health Promotion
Cancer & Coronary Disease Risk
Reduction

Post Graduate Prerequisites: completion of an ACGME accredited internal medicine residency.

Academic Year: Program provides grant support for tuition

Degree(s) Awarded: MPH

Combined Training with Other Specialties:
Not Available

Program Description: The Cook County Hospital Preventive Medicine Program received its initial accreditation retroactive to July 1, 1996. It is a small program (1 - 2 residents per year for two years) that offers a special opportunity in mentoring and training for physicians who have already completed a three year internal medicine residency. This is an intensive program. We are working to train primary care oriented physicians to offer leadership in preventive medicine in a time when there is increased interest in prevention in primary care. The curriculum includes 6-9 hours of MPH course work for each of 5 semesters over the two years of the program. The practicum includes clinical work (including developing expertise in: lifestyle counseling on smoking, diet, stress and exercise; performing sigmoidoscopy; breast cancer detection; and incorporating preventive skills into general internal medicine); training to teach medical residents and other physicians how to incorporate prevention into their practice; intensive evaluation of current literature and topical reviews of preventive literature; traditional public health epidemiologic evaluations; an administrative preceptorship, ADD, "and an increasing emphasis on research". The second year of the practicum is devoted primarily to the development of a new preventive program in the public sector, and a research project.