Practicum Experiences
Our current practicum experiences include the following. Details are provided in separate PDF attachments by clicking on each link below.
Monroe County Department of Public Health
- Required Rotation
- 3-4 Months long
URMC Office of Quality Improvement
- The University of Rochester Medical Center Office of Quality Improvement is lead by Dr, Robert Panzer and is responsible for coordinating the medical centers’ quality improvement, patient relations, hospital accreditations, patient safety and quality improvement.
- Residents will learn about maintaining patient safety, quality improvement and decision making at a large medical institution
- The Center for Community Health was established by the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) to develop and expand academic-community health partnerships dedicated to improving the health of our community.
- This effort represents a new model of institutional commitment to community health that focuses on prevention.
Community Health Improvement Practicum
- The primary goal of this rotation is to learn and apply in your own project the skills needed to work with community partners and improve the health of the community.
- Learn how to implement environmental change
- Learn how to advocate for policy change
- Learn skills to develop and maintain community partnerships
- Learn and use different program evaluation techniques
- Learn about models of and implement program of risk behavior change
- Learn about barriers to care due to socioeconomic and racial/ethnic differences
- Residents will work with the director of the local chapter of the American Cancer Society on ongoing projects it is undertaking, many of which are done in conjunction with other chapters in New York State and/or county health departments.
- Residents will learn about how non-profits are managed and organized and in particular how one national non-profit organizes its local chapters vis-vis its national organization
Occupational Medicine Experiences
- Residents also have the opportunity to work with the program to arrange an out of town rotation, which usually occurs in the last semester of your last year. Past residents have arranged rotations with the New York City Department of Public Health and with a medical society in Washington, D.C.
