Director: Oyebode A. Taiwo, MD, MPH
135 College Street, 3rd Floor
New Haven, CT 06510
Phone: 203.785.6434
Fax: 203.785.4197
E-mail: oyebode.taiwo@yale.edu
Internet: http://www.info.med.yale.edu/intmed/occmed/index.html

Total Number of Residents: 4

Tracks/Areas of Emphasis:
Clinical Occupational Medicine
Environmental Health Sciences
Occupational Pulmonary Disease
Toxicology
Work Organization/Social Environment

Post Graduate Prerequisites: Completion of a primary care residency

Academic Year: Tuition is waived for residents

Degree(s) Awarded: MPH

Combined Training with Other Specialties:
Pulmonary Medicine

Program Description: The Yale Occupational and Environmental Medicine Training program is an ACME accredited program. The primary goal of the program is to train physicians to he qualified specialists in the field of occupational and environmental medicine. Another explicit goal of the Yale program is to fully prepare those physicians interested in pursuing academic careers by fostering development of comprehensive clinical education and scientific investigative skills. Physicians are sought who have completed training in a primary care specialty. Prior public health or equivalent training is desirable. Similarly, the program encourages applicants who have been in practice. Minority and female physicians are strongly encouraged to apply, based on their under-representation in the discipline. Because of the research emphasis of the program, candidates with research experience or stated goals for an academic career in Occupational and Environmental Medicine are given preference.

The Yale Occupational and Environmental program offers an integrated 2-year academic and practicum program with an optional third year for additional research experience. Because of the philosophy of integration of clinical and public health aspects of the field, trainees are usually recruited after completing a residency in a primary care specialty. The program admits two new fellows annually, with full support provided through a combination of training grants and other departmental funds.

All trainees are expected to complete the requirements for the MPH degree at the Yale School of Public Health. In addition, all fellows are required to undertake and independent research project resulting in either an MPH thesis or an article for publication. The practicum experience for Yale fellows consists of two main activities: clinical training based at the Yale Occupational and Environmental Medicine Clinic, and off-site industrial training with various corporations representing the major industrial sectors.

Approximately half the graduates of Yale's program have gone on to full-time academic jobs; others provide services in areas where need for occupational and environmental medicine exists, often teaching on a part-time basis. Furthermore, alumni of the Yale Occupational and Environmental Medicine program have been successfully involved in expanding training opportunities and research in occupational and environmental medicine nationwide.