Director: Daniel G. Burnett
Department of Preventive
Medicine & Biometrics
4301 Jones Bridge Road
Bethesda, MD 20814-4799
Phone: 301.295.3719
Fax: 301.295.0335
E-mail: daniel.burnett@usuhs.mil
Internet: http://www.usuhs.mil/pmb/gpresidency.html

Total Number of Residents: 11

Tracks/Areas of Emphasis:
Epidemiology
Health Services Administration
Tropical Medicine

Post Graduate Prerequisites: Completion of an ACGME accredited clinical year (PGY1).  Must be an active duty uniformed service (military or public health service) physician.

Academic Year: There is no tuition charged at USUHS. All residents are active duty military officers and receive their regular military salary from their sponsoring service. The residency receives funding for resident travel and additional didactic activities during the practicum year.

Degree(s) Awarded: MPH, MTMH

Combined Training with Other Specialties:
Not Available

Program Description: This residency is designed to train military physicians for assignments as military preventive medicine officers. It focuses primarily on public health and tropical medicine. Clinical epidemiology, health services administration, and evidenced based medicine have more recently become more of a focus. Residents undergo a rigorous academic year culminating in an MPH or an MTMH in order to learn the core knowledge content areas of preventive medicine: epidemiology, biostatistics, environmental health, social and behavioral medicine, clinical epidemiology and health services administration. A substantial independent project is required. In the practicum year residents rotate through a variety of military and governmental facilities in order to develop proficiency across the spectrum of preventive medicine competencies. Some of the common rotations are the Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services, the Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research, The Joint Staff Medical Readiness Division, Navy Environmental and Preventive Medicine Units, and overseas military infectious disease research laboratories. The practicum year is designed to provide a broad experience that covers front line public health practice to high level policy making.