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date:03/13 Year:2024

acpm update

Advocacy Hill Day from the Perspective of the Science and Translation Committee

The ACPM Science and Translation Committee (STC) is charged with providing evidence-based guidance for the various forms of preventive medicine practice: clinical, community and population, policy and advocacy. The purpose and functions of the committee are to:

date:03/12 Year:2024

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What the health system is missing when it comes to the measles - Dr. Wendy Lane

ACPM Vaccine Confident Ambassador Wendy Lane speaks with Total Information A.M. about the recent rise in Measles cases and the importance of vaccines. 

date:03/08 Year:2024

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Issues and Ideas - Dr. Mirza Rahman

ACPM President Mirza Rahman speaks with Chris DeBello about the current measles outbreak and the importance of vaccinations. 

date:03/06 Year:2024

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CEO Update 03/07/2024

Last year at our annual conference in New Orleans, the Chair of our Membership Committee invited members of the College to develop and produce a session that resembled a TedTalk. Each member from across various fields — local public health, advocacy organizations, health systems and academia — developed their own career narrative and presentation to share and showcase what preventive medicine means to them and how the training enabled them to establish a career path that fulfils their passions. This effort culminated into a wonderful session that brought sheer joy to me as I watched each of these amazing professionals stand on the stage and pour out their heart and soul for what preventive medicine means to them. They also created unique slides and graphic designs using the ACPM brand as a backdrop to depict and represent their unique “brand” of a preventive medicine physician. Here is a highlight reel from that session that I hope offers you a bit of joy for your day.

date:02/28 Year:2024

acpm update

Preventive Medicine Residency Program Directors Vote to Join the NRMP

After the completion of another successful Standardized Acceptance Process (SAP), Public Health and General Preventive Medicine (PH/GPM) residency program directors voted convincingly to take the bold and historic step of joining the National Residency Matching Program (NRMP) for the 2024/2025 application cycle. It is hoped this move will benefit our training programs, specialty and the College in several ways. First, and foremost, it is hoped participation in the NRMP will increase the number, quality and diversity of applicants to our specialty. Equally important, is the fact NRMP participation will significantly increase our specialty’s exposure to medical students early in their career decision-making, and it will give them a familiar and trusted gateway into the field of Preventive Medicine. Finally, it will place PH/GPM programs in a more competitive, equitable and controlled matching environment, as we vie with other specialties for the most talented young physicians. All that said, we as program directors also realize that for years, some of our best and brightest physicians have entered Preventive Medicine from mid-career and other nontraditional pathways. The intent is to maintain an open pipeline for those physicians as well, but simply channel them through the NRMP process, instead of the SAP, which has been used for the past several years.

date:02/22 Year:2024

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Do Your Part, Care for Your Heart

This February we’re celebrating American Heart Month as we focus our hearts on a life of love. Loving our hearts means committing to heart-healthy habits throughout our lives. A person’s heart will beat over two billion times in their lifetime, yet it will face many factors that contribute to heart disease, including exposure to saturated fats, salty foods and drinks, poor sleep, stress and cigarette smoke—which contribute to heart disease, the leading cause of death in the U.S. claiming 695,547 lives in 2021.

date:02/19 Year:2024

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The Case Against an Annual Physical - Dr. Mirza Rahman

ACPM President Mirza Rahman discusses the importance of annual physicals with the Wall Street Journal. 

date:02/15 Year:2024

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Letter from the President: Leadership in Medicine and Public Health

In about eight weeks, several hundred colleagues will be converging on Washington, D.C. to attend Preventive Medicine 2024, our annual conference, which this year is focused on Leadership in Medicine and Public Health.

date:02/07 Year:2024

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Early Prevention is a Better Choice

Of the top causes of death in the United States, heart disease is first, followed closely by cancer at second, stroke at fifth and diabetes at eighth. What do these diseases all have in common? In most cases, they are preventable through lifestyle change and environmental protection. Heart disease, stroke and diabetes are primarily due to unhealthy, plant-deficient, and/or highly processed diets and lack of physical activity with some influence by inadequate sleep, substance use including tobacco and alcohol, lack of social connection and high stress. The most common cancers in the U.S., lung, colon, breast and prostate, are also affected by lifestyle factors but also environmental toxins or pollution.