Director: Haq Nawaz, MD, MPH
130 Division St.
Derby, CT 06418
Phone: 203.732.7327
Fax: 203.732.7185
E-Mail: hnawaz@griffinhealth.org
Internet: http://www.griffinhealth.org/medicaled/pmimresidencies.html

Total number of Residents: 9

Tracks/Areas of Emphasis:
Clinical Preventive Medicine
Epidemiology
Health Care Organization & Administration
Human Rights
International Health
Public Health Practice

Post Graduate Prerequisites: Candidate must be accepted by Yale U. School of Public Health and match with Griffin Hospital in its Combined Internal Medicine/Preventive Medicine Residency program. The clinical year (PGY1) is done at Griffin Hospital.

Academic Year: At the Yale U. School of Public Health. Residents’ tuition is paid by Griffin Hospital.

Degree(S) Awarded: MPH (Yale U.)

Combined Training with Other Specialties:
Internal Medicine

Program Description: The Preventive Medicine Residency Program at Griffin Hospital (GH) was started in 1995, in cooperation with the Center for Community Responsive Care (Boston). The GH Program became independent on July 1, 1997. From the beginning of the preventive medicine (PM) residency, the internal medicine (IM) and PM programs at GH worked to integrate the IM and PM training over 4 years (these two residencies would require 5 years if taken separately). In 2000 Griffin Hospital was approved to offer a combined IM/PM residency over 4 years. Ordinarily residents are only accepted into the combined program, but occasionally an independently funded (e.g., military) resident will be accepted for just the practicum, or academic and practicum years.

Combined program residents are paid the standard GH resident salary, including benefits, for all 4 years, and the hospital also pays their MPH tuition. The combined program fulfills the ACGME requirements for both internal medicine and preventive medicine, culminating in board eligibility in both specialties.

Griffin Hospital is designed and operated on the Planetree, patient-centered model of care, and it is a strong advocate for community health programs in the lower Naugatuck River Valley (about 100,000 persons). The hospital is the site of the Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center, the Griffin Hospital Center for Health and Human Rights, and many health promotion and disease prevention programs. The practicum year is adapted to each resident’s needs, but typically it includes rotations in a local health department; the CT State Dept. of Health; occupational medicine; clinical preventive medicine; managed care; preventive medicine research; and international health. Research is expected of all residents, and GH residents have won research awards at several state and national level conferences, including poster presentations at the annual meeting of the American College of Preventive Medicine. Attendance at one or more major national preventive medicine conferences is required and paid for by the program. The program pays for a board review course in preventive medicine.