Competencies

The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) has identified the following community medicine competencies for clinicians:

(1) assessment of risks for abuse, neglect, and family and community violence

(2) reportable communicable disease

(3) population epidemiology, and the interpretation of public health statistical information

(4) environmental illness and injury

(5) school health

(6) disease prevention through immunization strategies

(7) disaster responsiveness

(8) community-based disease screening, prevention, health promotion

(9) factors associated with differential health status among subpopulations, including racial, geographic, or socioeconomic health disparities, and the role of family physicians in reducing such gaps

(10) experience in using community resources appropriately for individual patients who have unmet medical or social support needs

(11) structured interaction with the public health system

(12) occupational medicine including disability determination, employee health and job-related illness and injury

(13) experience in community health assessment

(14) experience in developing programs to address community health priorities

(15) community-based health education of children and adults

Note: These skills may be obtained through either didactic or experiential education.