Does anyone know much about what opportunities are available for someone doing a residency in preventive med? Also, how likely is it that you can still treat patients clinically? Same questions for the fellowship in occupational med.

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although the minimum postgraduate training iin order to be eligible to apply for an occupational medicine residency is stated to be one year, does anyone know of any programs that will ACTUALLY accept someone who has not already completed a residency (i.e. internal medicine, family practice, etc)??

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It is my understanding that occupational med is a subspecialty of a preventive med residency. the residency is 2 years post internship year and the occ med fellowship is 1 year.

I am in the practicum year of a preventive med residency.

Typically programs are total of 3 yrs:
clinical yr: prelim/transitional year
MPH yr: may be waived at some programs if you already have this while some others (eg hopkins) only take their own MPH.
Practicum yr:varies according to program ...may be structured rotations e.g DOH etc. or unstructured where you pick an area and do whatever you want (or can find) in that area.

Occupational medicine is not a fellowship of preventive medicine, but rather its own residency (ie you do not have to do PM to do Occ Med). I don't know as much about this field except that is more focused and has its own very specific knowledge base whereas preventive medicine has much overlap with public health and some clinical medicine.

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What type of work are folks who've completed Prev Med residencies doing? Off the top of my head, I think of epidemiologic research (but only because I know that's a part of public health).

What type of work are folks who've completed Prev Med residencies doing? Off the top of my head, I think of epidemiologic research (but only because I know that's a part of public health).
Here's a link to a slideshow on it: http://www.acpm.org/cipm.htm

But the text on their page says:

What do Preventive Medicine physicians do?
Physicians who are board certified in Preventive Medicine hold a variety of positions from chief medical officers of private corporations, to directors of state/local health departments, to policy makers within governmental organizations, to program developers for multi-national NGOs, to many other positions (see the “Careers in Preventive Medicine” slide show). Career paths include managed care, public health, occupational medicine, aerospace medicine, clinical medicine, informatics, policy development, academic medicine, international medicine, and research. These positions are located in all levels of government, educational institutions, organized medical care programs in industry, as well as voluntary health agencies and professional health organizations. Preventive Medicine physicians operate in a variety of settings, but common to these settings is an approach to health that looks at systemic and population-based interventions to improve the health of individuals.

I start Prev Med at UNC Chapel Hill this July. I finished a PGY 1 year in General Surgery, and have been a Navy doctor (GMO/Flight doc) for 7 years.

I also applied (and was eligible) for residencies at UC San Diego, Hopkins, Maryland, and VCU.

When I finish, I'll be a Navy PM doc.

Hope that helps. Good luck -

Trix MD

So, as someone else wrote, what is the situation with applying with the minimum 1 year post grad training? Do programs prefer those with previous residency training?

So, as someone else wrote, what is the situation with applying with the minimum 1 year post grad training? Do programs prefer those with previous residency training?

I went to UNC Chap's site, and their program does prefer folks who have completed a residency, but they still give consideration to those with only an intern year.