Meharry Occupational Medicine Residency Training Program

描述(由申请者提供)：该计划将每年支持三名实习生参加ACGME认可的以能力为基础的机构计划，以完成职业医学方面的医生实习要求。梅哈里医学院项目是田纳西州唯一的职业医学住院医师项目，也是全国四所历史悠久的黑人医学院提供的唯一此类项目。该计划与梅哈里医学院的使命一致，旨在通过确定受训医生，致力于在脆弱的工作人口中执业，并希望通过预防和治疗职业病和环境疾病来服务于有需要的人，从而教育和服务于有需要的人。完成该计划的医生将熟练地诊断和治疗职业伤害和疾病；为工会、工业、政府和学术机构开发和管理职业和环境健康计划，并积极参与该领域的科学、法律、政治和伦理问题的发展。该学年将获得梅哈里研究生院公共卫生教育委员会(CEPH)认可的公共卫生科学硕士学位。作为这一学术体验的一部分，住院医生必须完成一篇关于职业健康和安全领域的研究论文。职业医学住院医师计划旨在让每个住院医师在全国科学会议上展示他们的研究工作成果，并提交工作供审议，发表在同行评议的科学期刊上。实践年的经验为每个居民提供了接触各种职业医学环境的机会，这些环境雇用了弱势群体，包括低收入退伍军人、移徙农场工人以及城市环境中的非裔美国人和拉丁裔工人。非常重视在提供文化上适当的健康促进服务方面具备能力。部分是因为梅哈里是少数族裔医生的主要生产者之一，梅哈里职业医学项目的记录不仅吸引了继续从事职业医学的少数族裔医生，而且他们还通过充当下一代的导师来回馈该项目和该领域。 公共卫生相关性：该计划将为对从事职业预防医学感兴趣的医生提供急需的MD后培训。在为期24个月的严格培训结束后，见习医生将证明他们在所有学术和临床领域的能力，才有资格参加美国预防医学委员会的专业认证考试。这些医生忠于梅哈里医学院(一所历史上的黑人学院和大学)的使命，并基于之前的项目经验，也可能服务于美国弱势群体，并通过帮助培训更新一代的职业医学医生来回馈该项目。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This program will support three trainees per year in a competency-based, Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)-accredited institutional program leading to completion of physician residency requirements in Occupational Medicine. The Meharry Medical College program is the only Occupational Medicine Residency program in Tennessee as well as the only such program offered by the nation's four Historically Black Medical Schools. Consistent with the mission of Meharry Medical College, the program aims to educate and serve those in need by identifying physicians-in-training with a commitment to practice in vulnerable working populations and a desire to serve through the prevention and treatment of occupational and environmental diseases. Physicians completing the program will be skilled in the diagnosis and treatment of occupational injury and disease; develop and administer occupational and environmental health programs for unions, industry, government and academic institutions, and be active in the development of scientific, legal, political and ethical questions of the field. The academic year leads to a Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH) accredited Master of Science in Public Health degree from Meharry's School of Graduate Studies. Residents are required to complete a research thesis on an occupational health and safety area as part of this academic experience. The Occupational Medicine Residency program aims to have each resident present the results of their research work at a national scientific meeting and to submit the work for consideration to be published in a peer reviewed scientific journal. The practicum year experience provides each resident with exposure to a variety of occupational medicine settings employing vulnerable populations, including low income military veterans, migrant farm workers, and African American and Latino workers in urban settings. There is a heavy emphasis on becoming competent in providing culturally appropriate health promotion services. Partly because of Meharry's status as one of the major producers of minority physicians, the Meharry Occupational Medicine program has a record of not only attracting minority physicians who go on to practice occupational medicine, but who also give back to the program and the field by serving as mentors for the next generation. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: This program will provide much needed post- MD training for physicians interested in practicing occupational preventive medicine. At the end of a rigorous 24-month period, the physician trainees will have demonstrated competency in all academic and clinical areas required for eligibility to take the specialty certification examination of the American Board of Preventive Medicine. True to the mission of Meharry Medical College (an Historically Black College and University) and based on prior program experience, these physicians are also likely to serve vulnerable US populations and to give back to the program by helping to train still newer generations of occupational medicine physicians.