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Project Name: Preventive Medicine Residency (D33)
Applicant Title: THE MOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, INC.
Abstract Text: Project Title: PREVENTIVE MEDICINE RESIDENCY Applicant Organization Name: Morehouse School of Medicine, Inc. Address: 720 Westview Drive, SW, Atlanta, Georgia 30310 Project Director Name: Sonja S. Hutchins, MD, MPH, DrPH, FACPM Contact Phone Numbers: Tel: xxx-xxx-xxxx; Fax: xxx-xxx-xxxx E-Mail Address: xxxxxxxxx@xxx.xxx Website Site Address: www.msm.edu/Education/GME/PHPMResidencyProgram/ Project Summary: The Public Health and Preventive Medicine (PHPM) Residency of Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) requests funding from the Preventive Medicine Residency program of the Health Resources and Services Administration to increase the number of and the ethnic and cultural diversity of preventive medicine physicians and the enhancement of residency training quality. Enhanced quality of training includes expansion of skill-building, practical experiences of residents through a culminating 2-month rotation at a FQHC. This FQHC rotation is to improve the population health of medically underserved communities and the application of 2022 ACGME competencies and milestones by residents to create competent leaders in optimizing health care and community health systems that improve individual and community health outcomes. Optimal integration of primary care and population health will address health equity by navigating effectively the public health, population health and health care system such that these systems are effective in ensuring high-quality patient outcomes by addressing social determinants of health and low literacy through ongoing quality improvement techniques. The PHPM residency project will be undertaken by meeting the following goals and objectives. GOAL 1: Increase the supply and diversity of the preventive medicine physicians. Objective 1: By the end of Year 4, the MSM PHPM residency will train a minimum of sixteen (16) residents (a minimum of four residents in each year). Objective 2: By the end of Year 4, the MSM PHPM Residency Program will increase the number of underrepresented minority (URM) preventive medicine-trained physicians. GOAL 2: Enhance the quality of the preventive medicine residency through residents having one of their rotations be a longitudinal rotation in a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) in rural and/or medically underserved communities. Objective 1. During each project year, all second-year PHPM residents will implement a FQHC population-level project during a culminating rotation to improve health equity. Objective 2: During each project year, the MSM PHPM residency will provide training in several HHS priorities such that residents understand how best to optimize the health of FQHC populations. The project will be accomplished by the conduct of resident recruitment initiatives internal and external to the Morehouse School of Medicine and residency training that draws on the existing structure and educational curriculum of the PHPM residency. Education and training include completion of the MPH degree and didactic, clinical and practical experiences. Population health training and a priority project in FQHCs as a culminating experience in metropolitan Atlanta will expand the resident training and produce scholarly work to advance integration of primary care and population health through its dissemination in the primary care and public health communities. This residency project will then increase the number of an ethnically diverse cadre of physicians competent to practice public health and preventive medicine and lead in equitable transformation of the health system for medically underserved populations.