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OEM Residency Overview of the Training

Occupational & Environmental Medicine (OEM) Residency consists of 3 years of training as follows: The Internship year or PGY-1 (includes 11 months of direct patient care) is completed prior to the start of residency during any clinical internship. Typically residents come from Internal Medicine, Family Practice or Transitional Internships. The PGY-2 year of the residency gives residents an opportunity to earn a Master of Public Health degree and begin seeing patients in hospital based Occupational Medicine Clinics. During the PGY-3 year, the residents complete administrative and clinical rotations that continue teaching the clinical, preventive medicine and occupational medicine competencies introduced during the PGY-2 year. Since the OEM residency does not offer a PGY-1 or internship year, all physicians must complete a clinical PGY-1 year and must hold a state medical license before beginning the PGY-3 year of training.