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The Tulane University General Preventive Medicine Residency Program is jointly sponsored by the Tulane University School of Medicine and the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. It is designed to prepare residents for careers in academic, administrative and public health practice. The program is fully accredited for two phases: the Academic Phase and the Practicum Phase. Residents typically complete the phases concurrently. Prior to entry into the program, each resident must have completed a clinical year in an ACGME-accredited program with a minimum of 6 months of direct patient care (i.e., provision of preventive, diagnostic and therapeutic interventions to patients).
Tulane's Preventive Medicine Residency Program is fully accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education.
With respect to the academic and practicum phases, most residents at Tulane University do them concurrently over the two-year program. This structure allows residents to work on large public health projects that might not be otherwise completed within a one-year practicum period. It also allows residents to take public health classes that they might have missed or were unable to fit into the first year of instruction. Residents who concurrently engage in the Academic Phase and Practicum portions of the program receive a resident stipend and benefits each year of the program. Resident stipends are also provided for residents engaged in the Practicum Phase only. Tulane does not provide stipends for residents choosing to engage in the Academic Phase only. Residents who have already completed either a MPH or a PhD in public health from a U.S. accredited School of Public Health may be eligible to enroll in the Practicum Phase only. Residents are required to complete a clinical research, performance improvement, program evaluation or other approved project during the residency training period. Each spring, residents have the opportunity to submit and present the project at the Annual Tulane Health Sciences Research Days. In addition, senior residents are required to prepare a paper regarding their project formatted in such a way that it would be ready for submission to a peer-reviewed journal.
Evaluation of resident progress and performance occurs quarterly and semiannually. Residents also anonymously evaluate each rotation and faculty in continual effort to improve the quality of their learning experience. All residents take the annual in-service examination sponsored by the American College of Preventive Medicine.
In the Academic Phase, residents pursue a master's degree in one of the following departments at Tulane's School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine:
The Practicum Phase is structured, and consists of rotations that incorporate experience in key areas of preventive medicine and public health: clinical/field experience, administrative/management experience, and specific projects including research. Residents may concentrate a portion of their practicum training in special interest areas, such as maternal and child health, epidemiology/communicable disease, general preventive medicine, or community-focused preventive medicine. Residents are given progressive responsibility over the two years in program management, clinical care of patients and project development. The program's didactic core consists of a two (2) year curriculum of weekly seminars and journal club meetings. Residents and faculty members alternate preparing and presenting seminar topics. Also, conferences and Grand Rounds in internal medicine, pediatrics, and obstetrics and gynecology at the Tulane School of Medicine, and conferences at the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals (Office of Public Health) and the V. A. Medical Center are given on a weekly basis. Collaboration and interaction of faculty and staff with residents are promoted by the proximity of these institutions, and facilitate comprehensive training for Tulane residents interested in population and individual patient-based health promotion and disease prevention.
The agencies offering Practical Preventive Medicine Rotations include the following: Office of Public Health
V.A. Medical Center—New Orleans
V.A. Medical Center—Alexandria
Daughters of Charity
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