The residency program in social medicine of Montefiore Medical Center: 37 years of mission-driven, interdisciplinary training in primary care, population health, and social medicine.

摘要: Founded in 1970 to train physicians practice community health centers and underserved areas, the Residency Program Social Medicine (RPSM) of Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York, has graduated 562 board-eligible family physicians, general internists, pediatricians whose careers fulfill this mission. The RPSM was a model for federal funding primary care residency programs received Title VII grants during most its history. tailored mission structured curriculum promote population orientation provide requisite knowledge skills integrating social medicine into clinical practice. Six unique hallmarks training are (1) mission-oriented resident recruitment/selection self-management, (2) interdisciplinary collaborative among professionals, (3) community-health-center-based community-oriented education, (4) biopsychosocial ecological systems curriculum, (5) core projects, (6) grant support through VII. These hallmark curricular, training, elements, which is deeply embedded, have been carefully evaluated, regularly revised, empirically validated since program's inception. Practice outcomes graduates as leaders advocates communities described discussed case study.