Occupational Medicine Residency Training Grant

描述（由申请人提供）：这是宾夕法尼亚大学职业医学住院医师培训项目的竞争性延续申请。自1997年成立以来，该项目已培养了70名实习年度职业医学住院医师，以满足国家对职业医生的迫切需求，目前有8名住院医师正在接受培训。自1998年7月以来，NIOSH培训补助金一直在帮助支持该计划。我们为来自其他医学领域的医生提供了实习培训，使他们在职业生涯中期转向职业医学。该项目结构独特而成功：受训者可以在合格的外部实践地点或宾夕法尼亚大学卫生系统获得有监督的临床培训。受训者通过五个学科领域的教学轮转获得所需的专业能力：在自我评估能力水平之前和之后的住院医师；认证考试，证明该计划的成功。为了这次更新，我们还计划利用宾夕法尼亚大学最近的发展，为研究培训和教师发展创造了丰富的资源，以满足国家对在职业医学实践和研究方面都有出色技能的医师研究人员的迫切需求。每年，我们将培训一名医生通过公共卫生硕士学位，学科领域轮转，并在宾夕法尼亚大学监督临床培训，重点是研究发展。我们的目标是培训这些医生，使他们能够成功地竞争随后的研究职业发展机会。我们的项目致力于招募未被充分代表的少数民族进入高级实践和研究培训机会。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is a competing continuation application for an Occupational Medicine Residency training program at the University of Pennsylvania. Since its inception in 1997, the program has graduated 70 Practicum Year Occupational Medicine Residents to address the critical national need for occupational physicians, 8 residents are currently in training. A NIOSH Training Grant has helped support the program since July 1998. We have delivered practicum year training for physicians from other fields of medicine, making a mid-career shift to Occupational Medicine. The program structure is unique and successful: trainees may obtain supervised clinical training in qualified external practice locations, or at the University of Pennsylvania Health System. Trainees obtain required professional competencies through five subject-area rotations with didactic education: resident before and after self-assessments of their level of competence; Certifying Examinations, demonstrate the program's success. For this renewal we additionally plan to take advantage of recent developments that have created a rich resource for research training and faculty development at the University of Pennsylvania to address the critical national need for physician researchers who have excellent skills both in occupational medicine practice and in research. Each year we will train one physician through an MPH degree, the subject area rotations, and supervised clinical training at the University of Pennsylvania, with an emphasis on research development. The objective will be to train these physicians to successfully compete for subsequent research career development opportunities. Our program is committed to the recruitment of underrepresented minorities into advanced practice and research training opportunities. Relevance. We will continue to train 8 physicians per year (40 over 5 years) to address the critical need for trained Occupational Medicine physicians who work in industry, government and clinical facilities to address Occupational Health issues important to the health of the workforce, including in underserved locations and populations. We will also train 1 physician per year (5 over 5 years) to meet the critical national need for physician researchers and academics with skills in occupational medicine practice and research, who are competitive for subsequent research training opportunities. At present graduation rates we are the largest civilian US Occupational Medicine residency graduating ~ 7 percent of the newly certified Occupational Physicians.