OVERVIEW
The Environmental Medicine Rotation Program (EMRP) is a collaborative effort with the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), the Association of Minority Health Professions Schools (AMHPS), and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR).
The program exposes second year medical residents, and Environmental Health graduate students (including Industrial Hygiene, Environmental Engineering, Epidemiology and Toxicology) to an onsite one to three month rotational assignment at ATSDR.
Graduate students and residents from the occupational, preventive, internal medicine and emergency medicine departments of their respective institutions are introduced to environmental hazards and health issues and the influence these issues will play when residents are in clinical and/or private practice.
ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS
Individuals who apply for the Environmental Medicine Rotation Program must be
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Member of an under-represented minority group as defined by the federal government http://www.cdc.gov/omhd/Populations/populations.htm
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Current residents in an Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)-accredited program in the primary care, preventative medicine, or emergency medicine
specialists at an
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AMHPS member institution
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Applicants must also have full approval from their program director.
LENGTH OF PROGRAM
STIPENDS & ALLOWANCES
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EMRP participants are provided travel to and from the ATSDR site and
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A daily per diem for meals
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All participants in the Program (except Morehouse School of Medicine residents) are provided housing and travel to and from Atlanta, Georgia.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Carla Durham:
[email protected]
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