Maine Medical Center gets grant for new residency program
Maine Medical Center received a grant for $950,000 over the next three years from the Health Resources and Services Administration to launch a new preventive medicine residency program.
The program also received initial accreditation from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education.
The new preventive medicine program will educate two residents in each class for two years. It aims to give them experience in public health and leadership. Most residents will enter the program after completing a residency in a “primary” specialty, though it is open to attending physicians who want to change their career direction.
Participants will earn a master of public health degree and board certification in preventive medicine. Maine Medical said program graduates will be well positioned to achieve the desired “Triple Aim” of improving the experience of care, reducing cost and improving population health.
Each year MMC has 250 residents and fellows in 12 residencies and eight fellowships approved by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education.
“While Maine can always attract physicians and other health professionals because of our quality of life and the opportunities our health system offers, the most sustainable path to addressing this need is to grow our own,” Dr. Peter Bates, MMC’s senior vice president of academic affairs and chief academic officer, said in a statement.
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