The attainment of advanced preventive
medicine practice competencies requires a sequence of continued learning
and supervised application of the knowledge, skills, and attitudes of
preventive medicine in the specialty area. The resident must assume
progressive responsibility for patients and/or the clinical and
administrative management of populations or communities during the
course of training.
- Communication, program, and needs assessment
- Communicate clearly to multiple professional and lay target
groups, in both written and oral presentations, the level of risk
from hazards and the rationale for interventions.
- Conduct program and needs assessments and prioritize activities
using objective, measurable criteria such as epidemiological
impact and cost-effectiveness.
- Computer applications relevant to preventive medicine
Residents shall be able to use computers for word processing,
reference retrieval, statistical analysis, graphic display, database
management, and communication.
- Interpretation of relevant laws and regulations
Residents shall be able to identify and review relevant laws and
regulations germane to the resident's specialty area and assignments.
- Identification of ethical, social, and cultural issues relating to
public health and preventive medicine contexts
Residents shall be able to recognize ethical, cultural, and social
issues related to a particular issue and develop interventions and
programs that acknowledge and appropriately address the issues.
- Identification of organizational and decision-making processes
Residents shall be able to identify organizational decision-making
structures, stakeholders, style and processes.
- Identification and coordination of resources to improve the
community's health
Residents shall be able to asses program and community resources,
develop a plan for appropriate resources, and integrate resources for
a program implementation.
- Epidemiology and biostatistics, including the ability to
- characterize the health of a community
- design and conduct an epidemiological study
- design and operate a surveillance system
- select and conduct appropriate statistical analyses
- design and conduct an outbreak or cluster investigation and,
- translate epidemiological findings into a recommendation for a
specific intervention.
- Management and administration, including the ability to
- asses data and formulate policy for a given health issue
- develop and implement a plan to address a specific health
problem
- conduct an evaluation or quality assessment based on process and
outcome performance measures, and
- manage the human and financial resources for the operation of a
program or project.
- Clinical preventive medicine, including the ability to
- develop, deliver, and implement, under supervision, appropriate
clinical services for both individuals and populations and
- evaluate the effectiveness of clinical services for both individuals
and populations.
- Occupational and environmental health, including opportunities for
residents to be able to asses and respond to individual and
population risks for occupational and environmental disorder.
Documentation Requirement: Resident schedules, rotation
descriptions, interinstitutional agreements
Measure: Adequate depth and breadth is provided
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