The General Preventive Medicine residency is available to physicians at the PGY -2, -3 or -4 level. The educational program integrates academic and practicum experience. The academic portion of the training is provided by the Master of Public Health (MPH) program. Residents spend a large percentage of their time during the two years gaining practicum experience at affiliated health care agencies with release time for taking MPH course work and participating in other residency related activities. The majority of the MSPH course work is completed in the first year so that the second year can be devoted to educational activities at the practicum sites. A one-year, practicum year only program is available to residents who already have a MPH or MSPH degree.
Residents in their first year take required practicum rotations, lasting four to eight months, in clinical preventive medicine and in public health. Residents of the two-year program spend the second year at one primary practicum site. The UCD Preventive Medicine Residency currently offers five areas of emphasis, determined largely by the selection of the primary practicum site. These areas include Clinical Preventive Medicine, Public Health, Community / Rural Health, Health Outcomes/Quality Improvement, and Cancer Prevention and Control. Practicum year-only residents take a combination of required and elective rotations in clinical preventive medicine, public health, and/or health outcomes/quality improvement.
Residents also participate in a variety of activities together, including two mini-practicum rotations in the first summer and weekly seminars throughout the two years.
Residents receive salaries equivalent to the post-graduate year salary scale for all residents at the University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine http://www.uchsc.edu/gme/benepayroll.htm.
Fringe benefits include health, life, disability and malpractice insurance, and tuition coverage for MPH course work (limited to in-state tuition levels).