Training Physician Investigators in Medicine and Public Health Research

The specialist public health and preventive medicine physician: system roles and training challenges.

Public health and community medicine instruction and physician practice location.

BACKGROUND Experts have historically recommended better integration of public health content into medical education. Whether this adoption is associated with physician practice location has not been studied. PURPOSE To examine the association between medical student perception of their public health and community medicine instruction and practice location in a Health Professional Shortage Are...

Teaching/Training and Practice of Public Health/PSM/Community Medicine

An audit of training in public health medicine.

Postgraduate training is one of the core functions of every specialty. The Trainee Members Committee of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine audited the quality of training in public health medicine according to guidelines set by the Education Committee of the Faculty. The survey identified several weaknesses in training which need to be remedied by Faculty Members. This audit model would prov...

Do black lives matter in public health research and training?

OBJECTIVE To examine whether investments made in public health research align with the health burdens experienced by white and black Americans. METHODS In this cross-sectional study of all deaths in the United States in 2015, we compared the distribution of potential years of life lost (PYLL) across 39 causes of death by race and identified key differences. We examined the relationship betwee...