Public Health and Preventive Medicine Academic Activities
Academic activities in the Public Health and Preventive Medicine program exist in parallel to clinical rotations. A Public Health and Preventive Medicine resident office and library are located in the Division of Preventive Medicine in the University of Alberta. Medical library resources including PDF documents are maintained in the University of Alberta library.
An academic half day is organized throughout the year, which follows a two-year rotating schedule led by Dr Alexander Doroshenko, Assistant Program Director. These sessions include electronic based learning sessions, didactic lectures, teleconferences, and field trips. Topics, reference materials, and schedule are maintained by the program coordinator.
A monthly journal club, journal club articles, and critical appraisals of past journal club articles are maintained by the program coordinator.
Residents are welcome to attend, time and rotation permitting, other related academic activities through the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry (FoMD), which include:
- Infectious Diseases case presentation rounds (11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. every Thursday)
- Public Work Health series of continuing medical education for Alberta medical officers of health (Monthly from September to June)
- Public Health Sciences Department Grand Rounds (every Wednesday from September to June)
- Clinical Epidemiology rounds in the department of Public Health Sciences (monthly from September to June)
- Statistical Seminars in the department of Public Health Sciences (Monthly from September to June)
- Seminars in ethics and Law (Bi-Monthly from September to June)
- Academic Half Day in Occupational Medicine (Weekly Friday mornings)
- Off-Service rotation-specific Academic Half Days