Director: Steven B. Cersovsky, MD, MPH
Division of Preventive Medicine, WRAIR
503 Robert Grant Avenue
Silver Spring, MD 20910-7500
Phone: 301.319.9218
Fax: 301.319.9104
E-mail: steven.cersovsky@na.amedd.army.mil
Internet: http://wrair-www.army.mil/WRAIRDivisions/
PrevMed/Residency/Introduction_f1.asp

Total Number of Residents: 10

Tracks/Areas of Emphasis:
Epidemiology
Tropical and Infectious Diseases

Post Graduate Prerequisites: Completion of an ACGME-approved clinical internship

Academic Year: Residents must be U.S. military officers. Individual service (e.g., Army) funds the academic year

Degree(s) Awarded: MPH

Combined Training with Other Specialties:
Not available

Program Description: The Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) has offered an ACGME-accredited General Preventive Medicine Residency Program to military physicians since 1965. While ensuring that graduates are equipped to practice public health in both military and civilian settings, the program emphasizes population medicine problem-solving as uniquely applied to military groups. Thus in addition to the generic competencies to be achieved by preventive medicine specialists, WRAIR residents are expected to understand and analyze: (1) epidemiology and control of infectious disease of military significance, (2) health aspects of rapid mobilization (medical threat assessment, immunization policy, etc.), (3) organization of military preventive medicine in garrison and in the deployed setting, (4) importation of medical problems from abroad, (5) military-unique occupational concerns, (6) health concerns peculiar to basic training (acute respiratory infections, barracks design), and (7) legal responsibilities of military posts regarding local, state and federal regulations.

All civilian applicants must enter active duty before beginning their program. It is also an Army requirement that all physicians pursuing Army residency training programs be United States citizens. Prospective civilian applicants willing to meet these stipulations are encouraged to contact the Army Medical Department personnel recruiter:

CUARC; ATTN: RHCS; 1307 3rd Avenue; Ft. Knox, KY 4012