ACPM - Elective Rotations

Database of Elective Rotations
in Preventive Medicine

Residency Programs by State/Province:

LOCATION	*INSTITUTION*	*CONTACT INFO*	Requirement	Category	Times Offered/Link
CALIFORNIA	California Department of Health Services	Jessica Núñez de Ybarra, MD,MPH Assistant to the Section Chief Email: jnunez2@dhs.ca.gov	Any resident Only Preventive Medicine Residents Medical Students
Loma Linda	Loma Linda University	Wayne Dysinger wdysinger@univ.llu.edu http://www.llu.edu/llu/prevmed/			The rotation is tailored to the student’s interest. Experiences are available in the following areas: 1) Clinical Preventive Medicine a) Health Risk Assessment and Therapeutic Lifestyle Change, b) Community Health, c) Student Health, and d) Occupational Medicine; 2) Population Preventive Medicine: a) Public Health, b) Quality Improvement, c) Epidemiology projects and research, and d) International Health and Travel Medicine.
Los Angeles	UCLA	Philip Harber MD http://fm.mednet.ucla.edu/occupmed	Electives limited to UCLA and Drew med students. Outside students must be certified by our dean's office first	Population Medicine: General Preventive Medicine and Occupational combined	OFFERED: throughout the year LENGTH: 2-4 weeks Click for more information
San Diego	UCSD General Preventive Medicine Residency Program	Linda Hill, MD MPH http://pmr.ucsd.edu	Residents Medical Students	General Preventive Medicine	OFFERED: throughout the year LENGTH: 4 weeks Click for more information
San Francisco	University of San Francisco-Berkeley	George W. Rutherford MD MPH GRutherford@psg.ucsf.edu http://sph.berkeley.edu:7133/degrees/ degreeprog/prevmed.htm	UCSF residents and medical students only	General Preventive Medicine	OFFERED: throughout the year LENGTH: 4-6 weeks Click for more information
		Robert Goldberg MD http://coeh.berkeley.edu/ucsfoem/	Residents Medical Students	Occupational	OFFERED: throughout the year LENGTH: 4 weeks Click for more information
COLORADO	University of Colorado Health Sciences Center	Carolyn DiGuiseppi, MD, MPH, PhD http://www.uchsc.edu/pmb/pmres/ index.htm (elective not listed)	Medical Students	General	OFFERED: almost always available in July and August, other times of the year negotiable LENGTH: 4-8 WEEKS Click for more information
CONNECTICUT	University of Connecticut School of Medicine Division of Occupational & Environmental Medicine	John Meyer MD MPH http://www.oehc.uchc.edu/	Residents Medical Students	Occupational	OFFERED: throughout the year LENGTH: 4 weeks Click for more information
FLORIDA	University of South Florida	James McCluskey MD jmcclusk@hsc.usf.edu
Pensacola	Naval Aerospace Medical Institute Aerospace Medicine Residency Program	CDR David DeLonga, MC, USNR (FS)		General, Occupational, Aerospace	OFFERED: throughout the year LENGTH: 4 weeks Click for more information
GEORGIA Atlanta	Center for Disease Control and Prevention	Gail Stennies gds2@cdc.gov
	Morehouse School of Medicine/Georgia Division of Public Health	Beverly Taylor btaylor@msm.edu
LOUISIANA New Orleans	Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center (LSUHSC), School of Medicine	James H. Diaz, MD, DrPH 1600 Canal Street, Suite 800 New Orleans, LA 70112 TEL 504-599-1067 FAX 504-568-6905 jdiaz@lsuhsc.edu www.lsuhsc.edu http://www.publichealth.lsuhsc.edu/			Focus includes environmental and occupational health and medicine, and clinical preventive medicine. Previous student experiences have included investigations of occupational illnesses and injuries in healthcare workers, food borne disease outbreaks, illnesses and injuries following hurricanes and flooding, tick-borne infectious diseases, mosquito-borne infectious diseases, terrestrial and marine envenomations, and injury prevention in the workplace.
MARYLAND Baltimore	Johns Hopkins General Preventive Medicine Residency	Miriam Alexander, MD MPH mhalexan@jhsph.edu www.jhsph.edu/gpmr (under "practicum rotations" link)	Residents Medical Students	General Preventive Medicine	OFFERED: throughout the year LENGTH: 4 weeks Click for more information
	University of Maryland	Katherine Pazdernik Academic Coordinator Dept. of Epid. and Prev. Med. kpazdern@epi.umaryland.edu	Residents (Will entertain inquiries from outside residents) Medical Students	Public Health	OFFERED: LENGTH: Click for more information
Silver Spring	Walter Reed Army Institute of Research	Steven Cersovsky steven.cersovsky@na.amedd.army.mil
MASSACHUSSETTS Boston	Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School	Howard Hu http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/ erc/oemr/index.htm	Residents Medical Students	Occ Med	OFFERED: throughout the year LENGTH: 4-8 weeks Click for more information
MINNESOTA St. Paul, MN	Regions/HealthPartners Occupational Medicine Residency Program in St. Paul, MN	Beth A Baker	Residents Medical Students	Occupational	OFFERED: throughout the year LENGTH: usually 4 weeks but can be shorter Click for more information
	Mayo Clinic Preventive Medicine Fellowship	Prathibha Varkey, MD, MPH www.mayo.edu/msgme/ preventmed-rch.html	Residents Medical Students	General, Occupational, Aerospace, Public Health Quality Improvement	OFFERED: March, July, November LENGTH: 3-4 weeks Click for more information
NEBRASKA Omaha	University of Nebraska Medical Center	Susanna VonEssen and Barbara Goodman svonesse@unmc.edu			The rotation has an emphasis on rural health issues.
NEW JERSEY Piscataway	University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) - Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (RWJMS)	Iris Udasin, MD udasin@eohsi.rutgers.edu			OFFERED: LENGTH: Click for more information
NEW YORK Albany	NY State Department of Health	Mary Applegate www.albany.edu/sph/residencies/pmr/	Any resident Medical Students	Public Health	OFFERED: Throughout the year LENGTH: Preferably 8-12 weeks but other lengths can be arranged Click for more information
Buffalo	SUNY at Buffalo	Carl Li carlli@buffalo.edu
New York	Mount Sinai School of Medicine	Elizabeth Garland http://www.mssm.edu/cpm/residencies/ general_preventive/	Residents Medical Students	General Preventive Medicine	OFFERED: Throughout the year LENGTH: check with program Click for more information
	Occupational Medicine Residency Program, Mount Sinai School of Medicine	Jacqueline Moline http://www.mssm.edu/cpm/residencies/ occupational_medicine/	Residents Medical Students	Occupational	OFFERED: every month except July and August LENGTH: 4 weeks for residents, 2-4 weeks for medical students Click for more information
	NYC Dept of Health and Mental Hygiene	Andrea Lyman healthrp@health.nyc.gov Program website: http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/html/ phmrp/phmrp.shtml	Residents Medical Students	Public Health	OFFERED: Throughout the year LENGTH: Any, usually 4 weeks Click for more information Brochure: http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/ downloads/pdf/phmrp/phmrp- elect-brochure.pdf
Stony Brook	SUNY at Stony Brook	Dorothy S. Lane dorothy.lane@stonybrook.edu
OHIO	Case Western Cleveland, Ohio	David Litaker, MD PhD David.Litaker@med.va.gov			This elective provides students with a baseline understanding of principles of prevention and health promotion and to assist them in reconciling conflicting recommendations and guidelines among expert organizations. Second, we describe and discuss basic concepts in epidemiology as they relate to clinical prevention and health promotion, including risk factor assessment, risk stratification, and testing features (sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive value). Third, we focus on skill-building that allow students to counsel patients effectively on general and condition-specific behavioral modification strategies.
Ontario Toronto	University of Toronto	Bart Harvey, MD http://www.facmed.utoronto.ca/ English/Community-Medicine.html	Residents Medical Students	Public Health/Prev Med	OFFERED: Throughout the year LENGTH: flexible Click for more information
SOUTH CAROLINA	University of South Carolina	Lisa Cole lisa.cole@palmettohealth.org
TEXAS	Texas Department of Health	Chip Riggins Jr. MD mary.weigelin@tdh.state.tx.us
	Preventive Medicine Residencies Preventive Medicine and Community Health University of Texas Medical Branch	http://www.utmb.edu/pmr/ ASMshortcourse.htm	Residents Medical Students		OFFERED: July-August LENGTH: 4 weeks Click for more information
VIRGINIA Charlottesville	University of Virginia Health System	Drs. Anne Mounsey and Andrew Lockman			By the end of the elective, students will have a greater understanding of the issues and controversies in health promotion and how they directly relate to the care of patients. Students will gain a greater understanding of behavioral factors, including weight loss; exercise; substance abuse; stress reduction; and risky sexual behavior. Students will explore behavior change approaches that can be used and/or discussed in the physician's office setting, including motivational interviewing and behavior modification. (See webpage for complete details.)
WISCONSIN Milwaukee	Medical College of Wisconsin	William W. Greaves, MD, MSPH	Medical Students	General Preventive Medicine	OFFERED: LENGTH: 4 weeks Click for more information
	Medical College of Wisconsin	Sandra Blessinger blessing@mcw.edu			Elective is in Preventive Medicine and can be focused on any discipline, specialty or subspecialty in the field of Preventive Medicine. After a one month rotation a formal presentation of the activities of the month is made to other students, faculty and invitees. This in-depth evaluation combines community participation and evidence-based literature into a population based assessment.