Goal: To develop a strong working knowledge of
public health practice, especially as it interfaces with the practice of
emergency medicine
General
Requirements:
Successful Completion:
- Minimum of 100 hours of "credit" during the residency program
- Each activity will have a predefined
credit value based upon amount of effort involved
- The resident must demonstrate steady progress that will be monitored at least biannually, and failure to achieve at least 10 credits in any given semester without an acceptable reason will add 10 credits to the total requirement
- The resident must complete at least 10 hours of *interactive time in
each of the following subspecialty areas:
- Environmental Health
- Surveillance, Epidemiology, and Disease
Control
- Community Wellness
- Specialty Clinical Services
- Public Health Emergency Preparedness
- Public Health Administration
- The resident must complete at least 5 hours of *interactive time in each
of the following subspecialty areas:
- Forensic Pathology
- Public Health Laboratory Practice
- Active participation in periodic group sessions with selected readings
- Organize and conduct one journal
club on a public health topic
- Develop and defend a portfolio that includes a written summary of the resident’s experience in each of the subspecialty areas especially as they relate to the practice of emergency medicine, an in-depth written review of publishable quality on one mutually agreed upon topic, and any other material created by the resident such as Power Point presentations relevant to the intersection of public health and emergency medicine
*Interactive time will include observation and/or participation with public health practitioners performing their daily activities; discussions and other educational interfaces with public health practitioners; participation in meetings, conferences, exercises, and other interfaces with groups of subject matter experts; preparation of articles, presentations, documents, and other outreach materials on select topics to share with the public, health care providers, public health practitioners, and others, and the like.
Sample topics
within subspecialty areas:
- Environmental Health
- Regulation, permitting, and inspection processes
- Water quality and water system regulation and oversight
- Pest and vector surveillance and control such as West Nile Virus and other mosquito borne diseases and rabies
- Impact of the environmental on health and wellness including lead, asthma triggers, building and other code regulations for injury control purposes
- Surveillance, Epidemiology, and
Disease Control
- Daily surveillance activities
- Outbreak investigation and case finding
- Targeted surveillance efforts such as HIV, domestic violence, and other screenings in emergency departments
- Interface, education, and epidemiological information sharing with the health care community
- Community Wellness
- Public health education, social marketing, and other behavioral change initiatives
- Specialty Clinical Services
- Correctional and other institutional medicine
- Occupational medicine
- TB care
- STD care
- Family planning care
- Podiatry care
- Dental care
- Public Health Emergency Preparedness
- Quarantine and isolation
- Mass immunization and prophylaxis
- Mass fatality care
- Outbreak investigation and case finding
- Risk communications
- National incident management system, incident command, and other emergency operations administrative matters
- Public Health Administration
- Legislation, Board of Health, and other legal and regulatory matters
- Public relations
- Regional, statewide, and international public health approaches
- Grants management
- Funding, budgets, and other fiscal matters
- Forensic Pathology
- Scene investigation
- Gross anatomical investigation
- Microscopic anatomical investigation
- Toxicological investigation
- Public Health Laboratory Practice
- Clinical laboratory services
- Environmental laboratory services
- Laboratory Response Network (LRN) and other Biological Safety Level 3 (BLS3) services
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