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Occupational Safety and Health Training Project Grant



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  • Personal Author:
    Redlich C
  • Description:
    There is a critical shortage of physicians trained in occupational medicine (OM) across the U.S. at a time of rising workplace challenges and exposures. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the urgent need for OM and public health / preventive medicine (PM) trained physicians. Over the past 5 years this NIOSH Training Program Grant (Occupational Safety and Health Training Project Grant, T03-OH008607) has provided critical support to the Yale Occupational and Environmental Medicine (OEM) residency training program, thus helping to train physicians with the skills and knowledge to recognize and prevent work-related illness and injury. The Yale OEM residency training program, based in the Department of Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, is one of the oldest and most respected OEM residency training programs in the U.S. and one of only two OEM residency training programs in New England. The integrated two-year Preventive Medicine, Occupational Medicine residency training program is fully accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) and leads to board eligibility for certification in PM and OM by the American Board of Preventive Medicine (ABPM) as well as a Master of Public Health (MPH) Degree from the Yale School of Public Health. The program is currently approved for a total of four positions, two per year. Trainees admitted to the program are expected to have completed an initial ACGME accredited residency, typically Internal Medicine or Family Medicine. This NIOSH funding helps support 2 OEM physician trainees a year, thus 10 physician trainees over the past 5 years, with the overarching goal of providing physicians with the tools and expertise to improve the health and well-being of U.S. workers. Numerous other Yale residents and students also benefit from the OH focused educational activities during elective rotations. The Yale OEM training program is continually evolving to meet the new hazards and challenges U.S. workers and employers face, such as COVID-19. There have been multiple areas of achievement over the past 5 years of funding. Foremost has been the successful recruitment, training and graduation of 10 highly qualified OEM resident physicians. Additional accomplishments have included: securing greater institutional support for the Yale OEM Training Program, stable senior leadership (Dr. Redlich), the recruitment of 3 new OEM physician faculty, a number of curriculum enhancements, continued ACGME accreditation without citations, and new enhanced office space. The past 10 Yale OEM residents have all become board certified in PM / OM and are all employed as OEM physicians in clinical, academic and/or leadership positions. Their current activities include occupational health practice and policy, educating U.S. clinicians and workers about occupational hazards and prevention, and occupational health research. This NIOSH Training Program Grant thus helps address the serious shortage of OEM trained physicians and advance the health of US workers. [Description provided by NIOSH]
  • Subjects:
  • Keywords:
  • Series:
    Grant Final Reports
  • Publisher:
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
  • Document Type:
    Text
  • Funding:
    Grant
  • Genre:
    Final Grant Report
  • Place as Subject:
  • 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:20064387
  • NTIS Accession Number:
    PB2022-100422
  • 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-008607, 2021 Sep; :1-11
  • Contact Point Address:
    Carrie Redlich, 367 Cedar Street, Harkness Building A, 2nd Floor, New Haven, CT 06510
  • Email:
    carrie.redlich@yale.edu
  • Federal Fiscal Year:
    2021
  • Performing Organization:
    Yale University School of Medicine
  • Peer Reviewed:
    False
  • Start Date:
    20010701
  • Source Full Name:
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
  • End Date:
    20260630
  • Collection(s):
  • Main Document Checksum:
    urn:sha-512:48b97564454aa31848924622cd5afb4dcb981fade442d74aeecb6a47eb50803f2e01b5acf4f23ceb95abc831555a530fb7f52a105561d6c8ea780ff685ec46d6
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  • File Type:
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