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Program Goals and Objectives

General Goals of the program:

• To train the residents to acquire competencies in general preventive medicine and public health, as described by ACPM, by providing them the knowledge in the core areas of preventive medicine including epidemiology, biostatistics, health care administration, environmental health, and behavioral sciences and the relevant practical experiences.
• To provide the residents experience in application of knowledge and skills in population health need assessment and program development and evaluation.
• To develop the ability of the resident to conduct independent research in the field of preventive medicine and public health
• To prepare the residents as an effective public health educators with individual patients and communities.
• To prepare physicians for leadership roles in academia, government, corporations, and other relevant settings.
• To qualify residents to be eligible to sit for certification examination of American Board of preventive medicine (General Preventive Medicine & Public Health).

Specific objectives of the program:

1.         Manage Institutional Issues such as:

• Determine staffing needs for a correctional or preventive medicine program, develop position descriptions, and prepare, present and defend an operational budget for that program,
• prepare technical instructions necessary to guide other public health workers or health care professionals in instituting the prevention or control of public health problems,
• discuss the planning, implementation, operation, and evaluation of programs of industrial hygiene, radiation safety, consumer health protection, occupational safety, solid waste management, water treatment and general sanitation in food handling,
• understand common and unique intimate medical, surgical, and obstetrical/gynecological disorders with special emphasis on most commonly referred disorders to secondary and tertiary care centers,

2.    Apply Epidemiological/Population Principles such as:

• discuss the principles, methods, and value of an accurate vital records system,
• describe the elements of a chronic disease program necessary for primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention,
• design a case registry for any disease or condition of public health importance,
• plan, conduct, and report the results of a epidemiologic investigation of a non-infectious disease or a condition of abnormal incidence or prevalence in a population,
• discuss maternal and child health problems in a population, with consideration to problems in nutrition, development, and wellness,
• provide medical consultation to physicians and other public health professionals in preventing and controlling the spread of communicable diseases, including major zoo noses transmissible to humans and institutional infections,
• conduct epidemiological investigations of communicable diseases, including the preparation of a report of the investigation and recommendations for appropriate disease prevention and control measures,
• select appropriately and apply standard biostatiscal measures of variation, including use of normal, Student’s t, chi-square, poison, and binomial distributions in comparing disease patterns among reference populations and study groups,
• describe state and federal requirements of reporting cases of disease, their management, and the system of disease surveillance,
• discuss the systems for surveillance and control of vaccine-preventable and other communicable diseases and for other diseases and conditions of public health interest,
• design, perform, and evaluate clinical trials,
• use electronic data processing services in support of a public health program and demonstrate the use of epidemiological tools in administration and decision making,

3.     Apply Community Interaction and Health Education Techniques such as:

• counsel adults and adolescents in lifestyle modification,
• describe how in a give locality, core public health functions are provided,
• assess health risk factors in individual persons and groups and prescribe appropriate interventions,
• describe the legal responsibilities of health authorities and of private physicians; explain how these responsibilities may practically be accomplished,
• demonstrate the ability to prepare and use effective public health education materials and information for health professionals with appropriate target populations,
• prepare and make an effective oral presentation of technical material, making use of the full variety of appropriate training aids.