The goal of the Preventive Medicine track is to develop your knowledge, attitudes, and skills in providing preventive services at both the individual patient and population levels.
The Preventive Medicine track will enhance your competency in the following areas:
- Performing appropriate prevention-focused history, physical exam, and screening tests.
Motivational and behavioral change counseling and communication skills incorporating social and cultural environmental factors to improve the overall health
of patients. - Identification of risk factors and evidence-based interventions for clinical preventive services.
- Identification and utilization of resources (formal and informal; private and public) that relate directly or indirectly to prevention and public health.
Learning activities include:
- Monthly preventive medicine clinics and seminars.
- A summer course in clinical preventive medicine.
- Electives in preventive medicine and public health.
- Preventive Medicine Project.
- The Preventive Medicine Project includes a literature review on a specific preventive medicine topic of the student’s interest, assessment of its current implementation in a health care setting, an intervention to improve its implementation and an evaluation of the success of the intervention.
Faculty Contact:
Jim Medder, MD, MPH
jmedder@unmc.edu
