Occupational Medicine Residency Training Grant

描述(由申请者提供)：这是宾夕法尼亚大学实习年职业医学住院医师培训计划的修订后的竞争延续申请。我们计划每年毕业8名实习医生。该计划自1997年启动以来，已毕业78名实习年职业医学住院医师，以满足国家对职业医生的迫切需求，目前有7名住院医师正在接受培训。自1998年7月以来，NIOSH的一笔培训补助金帮助支持了该计划。我们已经为来自其他医学领域的医生提供了实习年的培训，使职业生涯中期转向职业医学。该计划的结构独特而成功：学员可以在合格的外部执业地点或宾夕法尼亚大学卫生系统获得受监督的临床培训。学员通过五个学科领域的轮换，通过教学教育和宾夕法尼亚大学教职员工监督的项目获得其他所需的专业能力。这五个领域是工作场所、危险识别和控制；环境健康、风险评估和风险沟通；组织和保健管理；人口职业健康；以及工人。严格的质量评估标准包括：住院医生对其能力水平的前后自我评估；教师对住院医生表现的评估；在美国预防医学委员会(ABPM)认证考试中的表现；以及独立调查的结果，表明该项目取得了卓越的成果。自1998年7月以来，NIOSH的一笔培训补助金帮助支持了该计划。NIOSH资金用于支持基于需求标准的培训，这些标准包括：(I)向服务不足的人口提供服务；(Ii)难以获得适当的培训方案(偏远地区、没有培训的地区、家庭责任等)；(Iii)特定的区域劳动力需求；以及(Iv)向特殊风险人群，包括少数群体和弱势群体提供服务。我们的计划有一个承诺和强有力的计划，招募代表人数不足的少数族裔参加职业和环境医学培训。 我们将继续每年培训8名医生(5年内培训40名)，以满足对在工业、政府和临床设施工作的训练有素的职业医学医生的迫切需求，以帮助解决对劳动力健康至关重要的职业健康问题，包括在服务不足的地点和人口。目前我们是美国最大的民间职业医学实习生。我们在2005-2007年间完成了9%的ABPM职业医学新认证医师的毕业。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is a revised competing continuation application for a practicum-year Occupational Medicine Residency training program at the University of Pennsylvania. We plan to graduate 8 residents per year. Since its inception in 1997, the program has graduated 78 Practicum Year Occupational Medicine Residents to address the critical national need for occupational physicians, 7 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 other required professional competencies through five subject-area rotations with didactic education and projects supervised by University of Pennsylvania faculty. These five areas are the workplace, hazard identification and control; environmental health, risk assessment and risk communication; organizational and health care management; population occupational health; and the worker. Rigorous quality evaluation criteria including: resident before and after self- assessments of their level of competence; faculty evaluations of resident performance; performance in the American Board of Preventive Medicine (ABPM) Certifying Examinations; and results of independent surveys, demonstrate the program's superior outcomes. A NIOSH Training Grant has helped support the program since July 1998. NIOSH funds are used to support training based on criteria of need including: (i) service to an underserved population, (ii) difficulty in accessing a suitable training program (remote location, location where there is no training, family responsibilities, etc.), (iii) specific regional workforce needs and (iv) and service to special populations at risk, including minority and disadvantaged workers. Our program has a commitment and strong plan for recruiting underrepresented minorities into training in Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 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 help address Occupational Health issues important to the health of the workforce, including in underserved locations and populations. Currently we are the largest civilian US Occupational Medicine practicum year residency. We graduated 9% of Physicians newly certified in Occupational Medicine by the ABPM for 2005-2007.