The IM/PM joint training program is designed for physicians with a dual interest in clinical medicine and population-level interventions. The four-year program includes all requirements needed to be board-eligible for internal medicine, and public health and general preventive medicine.
Training Components by Program Year
The first two years are similar to a categorical internal medicine track. Five months of the first two years incorporate aspects of public health. Each PGY-2 resident takes the Designing Clinical Research course at UCSF. They design a research project that can form the basis for their MPH capstone project. Support for resident projects is available through the UCSF Prevention Research Center. Residents rotate in infectious diseases and occupational medicine and do an introductory course on preventive medicine and quality improvement.
Residents earn a Master of Public Health (MPH) degree from the UC Berkeley School of Public Health. Students supplement their public health coursework during the semester with longitudinal health department rotations. Meanwhile, they maintain clinical skills through a weekly continuity clinic and two months of inpatient rotations at Kaiser.
After their MPH, residents apply their public health and clinical skills to many experiences. They rotate with UCSF-affiliated research institutes, population-based electives and do full-time health department rotations. They also complete their remaining dual board certification requirements in internal medicine, public health, and general preventive medicine. These requirements include three months of inpatient rotations, four to five months of public health/population health rotations and two to three months of electives.
PGY-4 residents also serve as chief residents. In that role, they lead the Quality Improvement curriculum and mentor junior IM/PM residents.
Finally, PGY-4 residents may engage in clinical outcomes and translational research at the KP Division of Research.
The first two years are similar to a categorical internal medicine track. Five months of the first two years incorporate aspects of public health. Each PGY-2 resident takes the Designing Clinical Research course at UCSF. They design a research project that can form the basis for their MPH capstone project. Support for resident projects is available through the UCSF Prevention Research Center. Residents rotate in infectious diseases and occupational medicine and do an introductory course on preventive medicine and quality improvement.
Residents earn a Master of Public Health (MPH) degree from the UC Berkeley School of Public Health. Students supplement their public health coursework during the semester with longitudinal health department rotations. Meanwhile, they maintain clinical skills through a weekly continuity clinic and two months of inpatient rotations at Kaiser.
After their MPH, residents apply their public health and clinical skills to many experiences. They rotate with UCSF-affiliated research institutes, population-based electives and do full-time health department rotations. They also complete their remaining dual board certification requirements in internal medicine, public health, and general preventive medicine. These requirements include three months of inpatient rotations, four to five months of public health/population health rotations and two to three months of electives.
PGY-4 residents also serve as chief residents. In that role, they lead the Quality Improvement curriculum and mentor junior IM/PM residents.
Finally, PGY-4 residents may engage in clinical outcomes and translational research at the KP Division of Research.