Preventive Medicine TRIUMPH Track

In 2004, the Department of Preventive Medicine received this training grant from the Department of Health Resources and Services Administration. Griffin Hospital's Preventive Medicine Residency Program will be transformed into a comprehensive model training program to render physicians competent to care for underserved populations. In collaboration with Yale School of Public Health, the program creates additional resources within its current GHPMRP to further emphasize Training of Residents to Improve Underserved & Minority Populations' Health (TRIUMPH), consisting of a well-defined curriculum in academic and practicum phases. GHPMRP is undertaking a comprehensive residency curriculum review and make appropriate modifications to curriculum and evaluation systems to comply with new ACGME Preventive Medicine competencies. The practicum phase includes new rotations at Women Health Access Program, Community Center of Excellence in Women's Health, Planned Parenthood, state and city public health departments, Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center, Center for Interdisciplinary Research in AIDS/HIV (CIRA), and community-based participatory research (CBPR) into health issues of surrounding underserved communities. In order to align the program with the public health needs of the community, the program will create a Community Advisory Board (CAB) with inclusion of community representatives. The TRIUMPH project, through structured practicum rotations and required community projects, creates opportunities for the program trainees to work with special populations such as low income, HIV/AIDS, women, immigrants & refugees, drug abusers, and victims of domestic violence, and people in shelters. The program will enter into additional educational partnerships with health agencies at state and national levels to accomplish its goals and to provide residents with desired training opportunities. Specific goals of the program also include continuing to stress the recruitment and retention of underrepresented minorities into the program and placement of its graduates in primary and health professional shortage areas. The program will also undertake further efforts to disseminate innovations in training.