Preventive medicine consists of a wide variety of characteristics, but with prevention of disease, disability, and death as core components across all arenas of practice. Preventive medicine physicians work with governments, business, health systems, and more to understand the needs of their communities and develop policy and population health practices to prevent disease and improve health at the population-level.
What can you do after Preventive Medicine residency?
Career Pathways in Preventive Medicine
Preventive Medicine Specialists are licensed medical doctors (MD) or doctors of osteopathy (DO) who possess expertise in a broad range of health care skills, including biostatistics, epidemiology, management of health care organizations, research, and the practice of prevention in clinical settings. They apply their knowledge and skills in medicine, social, economic, and behavioral sciences to improve the health and quality of life of individuals, families, communities and populations through disease prevention and health promotion.
Preventive medicine physicians work in a variety of settings including but not limited to: health and hospital systems, governmental public health, health care consulting, academia, and industry.
From ACPM.org, available here for more information.
Medicine and Public Health
In this video, the first UW Madison Preventive Medicine Residency Program Director, and current Professor Emeritus, Dr. Patrick Remington describes the schism between medicine and public health.