Meharry Occupational Medicine Residency Training Program

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• Personal Author:
  Aliyu M ; Chakrabarty S ; O'Hara H
• Description:
  This program supported two trainees per year in a competency-based, Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)-certified institutional program leading to completion of physician residency requirements in Occupational Medicine. The Meharry Medical College program is the only Occupational Medicine Residency program in Tennessee as well as the only such program offered by the nation's four Historically Black medical schools. Consistent with the mission of Meharry Medical College, the program aims to educate and serve those in need by identifying physicians-in-training with a commitment to practice in vulnerable working populations and a desire to serve through the prevention and treatment of occupational and environmental diseases. There is a heavy emphasis on becoming competent in providing culturally appropriate health promotion services. Partly because of Meharry's status as one of the major producers of minority physicians, the Meharry Occupational Medicine program has a record of not only attracting minority physicians who go on to practice occupational medicine, but who also give back to the program and the field by serving as mentors for the next generation. Physicians completing the program are skilled in the diagnosis and treatment of occupational injury and disease; develop and administer occupational and environmental health programs for unions, industry, government and academic institutions, and be active in the development of scientific, legal, political and ethical questions of the field. The academic phase leads to a Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH)-accredited Master of Science in Public Health degree from Meharry's School of Graduate Studies. Residents are required to complete a research thesis on an occupational health and safety area as part of this academic experience. The Occupational Medicine Residency program aims to have each resident present the results of their research work at a national scientific meeting and to submit the work for consideration to be published in a peer reviewed scientific journal. The practicum year experience provides each resident with exposure to a variety of occupational medicine settings employing vulnerable populations, including low income military veterans, migrant farm workers, and African American and Latino workers in urban settings. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Education Health Personnel Minority Health Occupational Health Preventive Medicine Race Factors Safety Staff Development
• Keywords:
  Diseases Environmental Medicine Injuries Minority Health Physicians Preventive Medicine Racial Factors Sociological Factors Training Treatment
• Series:
  Grant Final Reports
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Final Grant Report
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 4 ; Tennessee
• 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:
  1-11
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20049708
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2017-102228
• 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, T03-OH-009406, 2016 Oct; :1-11
• Contact Point Address:
  Sangita Chakrabarty, MD, MSPH, FACOEM, Associate Professor, Dept. of Family and Community Medicine, Director, Occupational Medicine Residency Program, Meharry Medical College, 1005 Dr. D.B.Todd Jr Blvd, Nashville, TN 37208
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2017
• Performing Organization:
  Meharry Medical College, Nashville, Tennessee
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20080701
• Source Full Name:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• End Date:
  20270630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:3926b4eae4061925aceedea46c6420435c22540199b518604b527c2e068f30b9a84076d89114787dcbb8608fa28f0dfd4d428812dc15506ccc9d370ca2844109
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/218659/cdc_218659_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 256.67 KB ]