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Program Overview

Successful completion of a residency in General Preventive Medicine and Public Health requires three years:

• an internship or postgraduate clinical training year in a primary care specialty,
• an academic year culminating in completion of an MPH, and
• a practicum year of public health practice. This residency offers only the academic and practicum year of training.

Successful applicants will be expected to have completed at least an intern year upon admission, although many have completed a full clinical residency.

New residents start the program on September 1 and complete a Master of Public Health (MPH) degree and practicum in approximately two years. Two to four new residents will be admitted to the program each year. Positions will be awarded on a competitive basis.

Residents are committed full-time to the program and must reside within commuting distance of Ann Arbor. The MPH requires three semesters of formal course work. Practicum rotations may begin after the first two semesters of courses are completed.

UM SPH provides MPH tuition and malpractice insurance for all residents. Residency slots may offer partial or full stipend awards for one or both years. Stipend requests are considered on a case-by-case basis.

The Preventive Medicine Residency program now offers a Joint Preventive Medicine/Infectious Disease Fellowship with the University of Michigan Medical Center. This three year program allows physicians to obtain their MPH in epidemiology and complete a fellowship in adult infectious disease.