University at Buffalo (UB)
Our conferences and grand rounds provide you with knowledge that helps sharpen your clinical skills and keeps you current in the field of public health and general preventive medicine. Further, these sessions will introduce you to community-based research opportunities and quality improvement, with an emphasis on addressing social justice in health care.
Via a virtual platform, watch a remote CDC lecture series focused on applying systems-based approaches that will prepare you to efficiently address major population health issues.
This conference provides a learning forum with public health projects that reinforce your leadership and management skills as a practitioner working to improve the health of various populations.
Each lecture features an experienced preventive medicine and public health professional or clinical practitioner. Speakers describe how they used systems-based approaches to accomplish public health and population health goals.
National experts present on topics such as vaccine hesitancy, addressing social determinants of health, successful health promotion and disease control, and mitigating the impact of COVID-19 on the health care system.
First Wednesday of every month
We ask you to watch these grand rounds in order to enhance your understanding and knowledge of the principles and practice of occupational and environmental medicine.
These grand rounds expose you to clinically relevant lectures about:
For instance, past talks have covered topics including:
First Thursday of every month
Through this series, you can hear about community-based initiatives to reduce health inequities, improve access to care and tackle difficult health challenges. These public health grand rounds are a collaborative effort between the URMC’s Center for Community Health and Prevention and the Department of Public Health Sciences. They will enable you to make key connections between research, clinical medicine and community health improvement.
For instance, past talks have covered topics including:
Third Friday of every month
When you conduct quality improvement (QI) projects, the effectiveness of the QI process often depends on the ability of QI team members to work well together. That’s why we ensure that you engage in regular QI team meetings.
During QI team meetings, we’ll discuss frameworks for developing, testing and implementing changes leading to improvement.
Further, you’ll gain experience working on a multidisciplinary team with members like clinic front line staff, patients and hospital administrative leadership.
Several meetings throughout the program
Each week, didactic curriculum will supplement your clinical educational experience.
Our faculty members cover topics within core areas including:
Bi-weekly — Thursday afternoons at Erie County Medical Center
When you actively listen and participate in lectures and presentations in these grand rounds, you will gain exposure to a full-spectrum of family medicine topics, ranging from:
Departmental faculty, faculty from other specialties, clinical psychologists, pharmacists, social workers and other specialists present at grand rounds.
Biweekly — Thursday afternoons at Erie County Medical Center