This program will support three trainees per year in a competency-based,Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)-accredited institutionalprogram leading to completion of physician residency requirements in Occupational Medicine.The Meharry Medical College program is the only Occupational Medicine Residency programin Tennessee as well as the only such program offered by the nation's four Historically Blackmedical schools. Consistent with the mission of Meharry Medical College, the program aims toeducate and serve those in need by identifying physicians-in-training with a commitment topractice in vulnerable working populations and a desire to serve through the prevention andtreatment of occupational and environmental diseases. Physicians completing the program willbe skilled in the diagnosis and treatment of occupational injury and disease; develop andadminister occupational and environmental health programs for unions, industry, governmentand academic institutions, and be active in the development of scientific, legal, political andethical questions of the field. The academic year leads to a Council on Education for PublicHealth (CEPH) accredited Master of Science in Public Health degree from Meharry's School ofGraduate Studies. Residents are required to complete a research thesis on an occupationalhealth and safety area as part of this academic experience. The Occupational MedicineResidency program aims to have each resident present the results of their research work at anational scientific meeting and to submit the work for consideration to be published in a peerreviewed scientific journal. The practicum year experience provides each resident withexposure to a variety of occupational medicine settings employing vulnerable populations,including low income military veterans, migrant farm workers, and African American and Latinoworkers in urban settings. There is a heavy emphasis on becoming competent in providingculturally appropriate health promotion services. Partly because of Meharry's status as one ofthe major producers of minority physicians, the Meharry Occupational Medicine program has arecord 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 nextgeneration.
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