Transcript Introduction to the Public Health AOC

INTRODUCTION TO THE
PUBLIC HEALTH AOC
Jason Sanders
[email protected]
The PH AOC is finally here!
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The students demanded public health training…
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We created a program that…
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Provides
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And
AWESOME public health training…
FUN
Goal of the PH AOC
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Provide students a rich, integrated, longitudinal,
individualized, awesome training program in the
theory and practice of medicine and PH.
This synergistic training program will help future
physicians optimize their practice, allowing them to
become consummate physicians and care for
individuals and populations.
Your AWESOME training…it’s all here!
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PH journal club
PH interest group sessions
Summer internship
Completion of Scholarly Project with PH focus
Leadership training seminar
3rd/4th year electives
Self-evaluation
AOC timeline
Journal club
Interest group
Find internship
Journal club
Interest group
Determine SP
≥4 week PH elective
SP research
Leadership training seminar
Self
evaluation
Internship
MS1
Summer
MS2
MS3
*Unavailable to basic scientists
MS4
Save
World*
PH journal club (MS1 and 2)
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>75% attendance
Open to PH AOC students and faculty
Students present a faculty-chosen paper related to
PH research and practice (1 presentation)
PH interest group sessions (MS1 and 2)
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>75% attendance
A larger group that encompasses AOC students and
non-AOC students; lunch talk format
Presentations by expert faculty
Training exercises using real situations, such as case
studies published by the Epidemic Intelligence
Service of the CDC
Summer internship (following MS1)
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A real-world PH experience
May be:
A rotation with local, state, or national PH offices
 Involvement with PH community interventions
 PH research
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A poster presentation, abstract, or manuscript
summarizing the summer experience is required
following the rotation
Funding may be found within Pitt or from outside
sources and will be determined on an individual basis
Scholarly project (variable)
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Scholarly Projects conducted in PH will be approved
by the PH AOC Director and will follow the
Scholarly Project format already in place
Leadership training seminar (variable)
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1-day seminar developed by the Pennsylvania
Preparedness Leadership Institute and Center for
Public Health Preparedness
Skill building in the following areas:
 Leadership,
team building, multidisciplinary problem
solving, meeting planning, interagency collaboration,
project management, and negotiation
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Students’ will have enhanced leadership skills and
be able to apply them in real-world settings
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3 /4
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year rotations
≥4 weeks during MS3/4 in PH related electives
PH Field Practicum
Work with a PH professional on a variety of core PH functions
 Disease surveillance and early warning; communicable
disease control (outbreaks and food safety); environmental
health; disaster preparedness, planning and response; health
policy and planning; vector and pest control; and applied
epidemiology
 Spend time at the Health Department and other county
agencies
 Spend substantial time in the field
 Weekly seminars and 3-5pg final paper
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May spend 4 weeks working on Scholarly Project
(research elective)
Self evaluation (after finishing AOC)
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You evaluate…yourself
And suggest program improvements
Core Leadership
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Sam Stebbins, MD MPH – Asst. Prof of
Epidemiology; Director Center for Public Health
Preparedness
Bruce Pitt, PhD – Chair Dept. of Environmental and
Occupational Health
Jeannette South-Paul, MD – Andrew W. Mathieson
Chair Dept. of Family Medicine
Ron Voorhees, MD MPH – Chief of Epidemiology
and Biostatistics, Allegheny County Health
Department
MS1 and MS2 student leaders
Some faculty interests
Disease surveillance and early warning
Environmental health
Communicable disease control
Vector and pest control
Disaster preparedness and response
Applied epidemiology
Health policy, management, and financing
Conservation medicine
Disease modeling and bioinformatics
Preventive medicine
Community psychiatry and mental health
Toxicology and PH
Pre-hospital medicine systems/EMS
Cultural competency
Sociology and behavioral aspects of PH
Occupational health
Tobacco and substance control
Community health organization, planning, and evaluation
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Nearly everything falls under PH: EXPLORE!
Acknowledgements
Donald Burke, MD – Dean GSPH, UPMC-Jonas Salk Chair in
Global Health, Associate Vice Chancellor for Global Health,
Director Center for Vaccine Research
Joan Harvey, MD – Dean of Students, SOM
John Mahoney, MD – Dean of Medical Education, SOM
Dan Beswick, Emily Rosenberger, Mirat Shah, Jacqui Moreau
Faculty mentors
Curriculum Committee