Are You Ready to Broaden Your Horizon?

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Are You Ready to Broaden Your Horizon?
Consider a Career in Preventive Medicine
Physicians with Populations as their Patients
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Outbreak Investigation
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Infectious Disease Surveillance
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Epidemic Intelligence Service
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Global Health
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Humanitarian Assistance
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Travel Medicine
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Tropical Medicine
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Homeland Security
Disaster Preparedness Response
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Policy Development
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Safety Regulations
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International Negotiations
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Media Relations
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Clinical Screening Programs
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Health Promotion
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Patient Education
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Public Health Campaigns
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Occupational Medicine
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Environmental Medicine
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Toxicology
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Aerospace Medicine
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Hyperbaric Medicine
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Informatics
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Research Academia
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Teaching Education
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Are you ready to

• Earn a Masters of Public Health degree?
• Prevent disease, illness, and injury?
• Work on a population level?
• Collaborate with other disciplines?
• Be a leader?

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then join a medical specialty boarded since
1948
Preventive Medicine
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Preventive Medicine has three main subspecialties
Public Health General Preventive Medicine
Occupational Medicine
Aerospace Medicine
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Preventive Medicine physicians work in a variety
of arenas . . .
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Government

• U.S. Surgeon General
• Medical Director, Centers for Disease Control and
  Prevention (CDC)
• Senior Advisor, Public Health Services
• Public Health Policy Analyst
• Chief, Cancer Control Branch, State Health
  Department
• Health Commissioner, County Health Department

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Workplace/Private Sector

• Occupational Physician for a corporation or
  company
• Medical Director in a health-related industry
  (i.e. pharmaceuticals, insurance, biotechnology)
• Vice President for Health Technologies
• Director of Medical Product Development

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Academia/Research

• Professor of Epidemiology
• Clinical Faculty for Chronic Disease Prevention
  Treatment
• Research Associate of Preventive Measures and
  Efficacy
• Teaching Faculty for School of Public
  Health/College of Medicine
• Research Scientist for Infectious Disease and
  Immunology
• Preventive Medicine Residency Director

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Clinical Preventive Medicine

• Director of community-based prevention programs
• Physician for outbreak response teams
• Clinical Director of mobile emergency operations
  center
• Medical Director for poison control center
• Chief of global emerging infections surveillance
• Chair of committee to develop clinical guidelines
  for prevention

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Environmental Health

• Medical Toxicologist for hospital or company
• Supervisor of Environmental Services at public or
  private hospital
• Professor of Occupational Environmental Health
• Environmental Services Team Leader, health care
  consulting firm
• Physician, Environmental Protection Agency
• Medical Director for bioterrorism preparedness

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International Health

• Medical Officer, World Health Organization (WHO)
• Medical Officer, Epidemic Intelligence Service,
  CDC
• Public health physician, infectious disease
  surveillance
• Prevention Policy Director, Institute for
  International Medicine
• Public Health Officer, International Medical
  Corps
• Professor of Global Health
• Clinical services director for vaccination
  programs
• Physician, Doctors Without Borders
• International medical liaison, U.S. Department of
  Homeland Security

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Public Health Practice

• Director for tobacco control program
• Clinical preventive services coordinator
• Physician researcher conducting clinical trials
• Director of public health preparedness center
• Public health researcher on health disparities
• Administrator of violence prevention programs
• Division chief for program evaluation and
  development
• Instructor of practice-based continuing education

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Military

• Chief of Preventive Medicine
• Commander, Regional medical command
• Preventive Medicine officer
• Occupational Medicine officer
• Flight surgeon
• Physician, Service Headquarters
• Physician, Armed Forces Medical Intelligence
• Physician, Armed Forces Health Surveillance
• Public Health Emergency Officer
• Medical Officer, Medical Research Institute

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And much, much morePreventive Medicine is
something new and exciting every day!
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Preventive Medicine is a 2-year residency that
follows either a PGY-1 year or a clinical
residency. Over the two years of training, you
may complete an MPH or equivalent degree as part
of your program. Core courses include
epidemiology, biostatistics, health policy,
community behavioral health, health systems
administration, environmental health, etc.You
will also complete various clinical and public
health practicum rotations to gain hands-on
skills and practice your preventive medicine
competencies.There are three main ways to enter
Preventive Medicine training . . .
How can you get started?
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Route 1 Medical School --gt PGY-1 year
(transitional year or prelim year) --gt Preventive
Medicine residency 3 years totalRoute 2
Medical School --gt clinical residency (Family
Medicine, Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, etc.)
--gt Preventive Medicine residency 5 years
totalRoute 3 Medical School --gt Combined
clinical residency and Preventive Medicine
Residency 4-5 years totalMost Preventive
Medicine residency programs now use ERAS. Then
you apply directly to the program the year before
you want to start (most programs do not use NRMP,
aka the match).
How can you get started?
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Example PM Practicum Activities

• Original research projects
• Public Health Department rotation
• Health Policy rotation
• Vaccine research
• Overseas research opportunities
• Occupational medicine rotations
• State or Federal agency projects
• Risk communication or media relations rotation
• Environmental Medicine field placement
• Tropical Medicine experience
• Many other opportunities . . .

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There are Over 70 residency Programs Nationwide
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Want to learn more?

• American College of Preventive Medicine (ACPM)
  www.acpm.org
• Medical Student Section (MSS)
• http//www.acpm.org/medstudents.htm
• Resident Physician Section (RPS)
• http//acpm.org/RPS/index.htm

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I will prevent disease whenever I can, for
prevention is preferable to cure. Hippocratic
OathModern Version
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Choose Preventive Medicine
The road less traveled . . .
. . . that will open many doors