Chair: Dorry Lane, MD, MPH, FACPM                                Staff: Jessica Cafarella, GME Manager

GME Subcommittee Chair: Linda Hill, MD, MPH, FACPM

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In early February 2001, Jessica Cafarella and Ginger Anderson took over staffing responsibilities for ACPM’s Education Committee. Jessica Cafarella serves as GME Manager for the College, and she is responsible for staffing the full Education Committee, the GME Subcommittee, coordinating the Preventive Medicine Residency Directors Workshop, staffing the ACPM Preventive Medicine Residency Funding Task Force, and overseeing the bi-annual preventive medicine in-service exam. Ginger Anderson is ACPM’s CME coordinator. She staffs the CME Subcommittee, manages the Preventive Medicine Review Course, and works on ACPM’s cooperative agreement with the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry to provide physicians with environmental health education.

At the Preventive Medicine 2001 meeting, Donald Gemson will replace Dorry Lane as Chair of the ACPM Education Committee. Gary Goldbaum will replace Linda Hill as Chair of the GME Subcommittee. Dr. Goldbaum also serves as Chair of ACPM’s Preventive Medicine Residency Funding Task Force.

The Education Committee was scheduled to meet by conference call on February 13, 2001. The Committee was expected to hear updates on the CME and GME Subcommittees, the in-service exam, the review course, the HRSA grant, and the Preventive Medicine Residency Funding Task Force. Participants also were slated to discuss the Committee’s past and future role within the College and to prepare for networking and Committee recruitment events at Preventive Medicine 2001.

Major activities of the subcommittees and staff during/following the November 2000 meetings are listed below.

Graduate Medical Education

· The 7^th Annual Preventive Medicine Residency Directors Workshop took place on November 12, 2000, in Boston, Massachusetts. The GME Subcommittee provided leadership and direction to the planning committee in the development of the workshop. Jeffrey Davis, MD, MS, Chair of the ABPM and RRC, discussed implementation of the new RRC requirements as well as the increased focus on competency-based education and resident assessment by the ABPM.

Residency directors participated in breakout sessions to help develop materials for a preventive medicine residency directors manual. Breakout session topics included affiliation agreements, core competencies, RAC and GMEC processes, formal skill testing and board performance, rotations, evaluations, and administrative requirements and policies.

Since the November meeting, facilitators of the various breakout groups have met via conference call to compile summary documents of the breakout sessions. The residency directors are expected to continue work on the manual at the 8^th Annual Preventive Medicine Residency Directors Workshop being held in Miami February 21-22, 2001.

· ACPM met with staff from the federal Office of Management and Budget in January to discuss support for training public health and preventive medicine professionals. Specifically, ACPM sought to educate OMB about the growing need for public health- and preventive medicine-trained professionals in today's health care environment and the importance of funding through the HRSA Title VII program. OMB has often zeroed out these funds in the administration's budget, requiring ACPM to lobby Congress to restore the funds. ACPM also discussed the importance of GME funding reform and the need to include preventive medicine residents.

Miriam Alexander, ACPM Fellow and residency program director at Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, also participated in the meeting and brought a real-life perspective to the discussion. Mike Gemmell, Executive Director of the Association of Schools of Public Health, also accompanied ACPM to the meeting and helped make a strong case for academic public health programs.