Occupational Medicine Residency Program

Details

• Personal Author:
  Grey MR
• Description:
  The University of Connecticut School of Medicine's Occupational Medicine Residency was accredited in 1993 and received its first funding from NIOSH in 1996. The residency submitted a competitive continuation (renewal) for 1999-2002 that was funded for one resident. Over the past 10 years we have grown from a relatively small academic program focussed educationally on the undergraduate and graduate teaching programs and clinically on complex diagnostic patients to a large multi-disciplinary Division with expanded clinical services, deep ties to the undergraduate, graduate and more recently post-graduate educational mission of the UConn Health Center, and a substantive research agenda. The foundation of our residency has been considerably strengthened as a result of this growth. Our Occupational Medicine residency offers two tracks. One is a traditional two year model in which trainees with board eligibility in either internal medicine or family medicine spend two years roughly divided into academic (R-2, MPH) and practicum (R-3) phases with broad clinical training in O/E medicine proceeding longitudinally throughout the two years. The second is a unique integrated residency in which residents in the Primary Care Internal Medicine residency gradually "evolve" into occupational medicine residents and over a four-year period become board eligible in both disciplines. We have successfully recruited to both tracks since the residency was formally accredited in 1994. Our residents (now numbering 4) have become integral to our Division's educational, clinical, and research missions and have given momentum to scholarly productivitY throughout the Division, particularly in the area of musculoskeletal medicine and ergonomics. In addition to developing a stable pipeline of trainees, we have collaborated with the Division of Work Environment at Umass-Lowell on a New England ERC proposal to NIOSH this past year. Ongoing collaborative education and research between our two campuses has only added depth and rigor to the residency both in terms of didactic and practicum training, as well as research. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Education Ergonomics Musculoskeletal System Occupational Health Safety Staff Development
• Keywords:
  Musculoskeletal-system Occupational-medicine Training
• Series:
  Grant Final Reports
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Final Grant Report
• Place as Subject:
  Connecticut ; OSHA Region 1
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  OEP - Office of Extramural Programs
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-12
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20023862
• Citation:
  Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, T01-CCT-112056, 2000 Mar; :1-12
• Contact Point Address:
  University of Connecticut School of Medicine, 263 Farmington Avenue, Farmington, CT 06030
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2000
• Performing Organization:
  University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  19960701
• Source Full Name:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• End Date:
  20040630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:a5b4d026af2ef6c57cd9fb80e9c6f4ebb2c839005c41fe3724f8fd1064c6fb3441392c12f83b51a556f39b6eb4a06460c84417ab2b847d036694e086878a5806
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/218170/cdc_218170_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.13 MB ]