Innovative partnerships to advance public health training in community-based academic residency programs

Abstract

Collaborative partnerships between community-based academic residency training programs and schools of public health, represent an innovative approach to training future physician leaders in population management and public health. In Kaiser Permanente Northern California, development of residency-Masters in Public Health (MPH) tracks in the Internal Medicine Residency and the Pediatrics Residency programs, with MPH graduate studies completed at the University of California Berkeley School of Public Health, enables physicians to integrate clinical training with formal education in epidemiology, biostatistics, health policy, and disease prevention. These residency-MPH programs draw on more than 50 years of clinical education, public health training, and health services research – creating an environment that sparks inquiry and added value by developing skills in patient-centered care through the lens of population-based outcomes.

Effect of community practical training on community residents’ health during the COVID-19 epidemic: A prospective study

“…Community-based medical education, including public health education, is a style of education that brings practical skills and ethical competencies to students [13]. Community practice can promote the students' career intentions toward primary care and addressing enormous challenge by aging populations [14,15]. Since the Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, the elderly are considered the most vulnerable group due to their susceptibility to COVID-19 and because preventive and management strategies, like social distancing, can have increased effects on the elderly who have a risk for social isolation and loneliness [16][17][18].…”

The effect of training medical students in the community area in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic in China: a community-based study

“…This type of education will develop students’ skills and ethical competencies [ 19 ]. Community practice can promote students’ career intentions toward primary care and address enormous challenges caused by aging populations [ 20 , 21 ]. The course content of practical training focuses on community health education and evidence-based approaches to public health, such as data collection, determination of health risk factors, statistical analysis, interpretation of quantitative and qualitative data, planning, and management.…”