Griffin Hospital Program

Preventative Medicine (Gen Prev Med, Occ Med, Aer Med, & Pub Hlth) Analyst Verified · Jul 1, 2022

Griffin Hospital Program

Griffin Hospital Program is a residency program specializing in Preventative Medicine (Gen Prev Med, Occ Med, Aer Med, & Pub Hlth), located in Derby, Connecticut, directed by James Koola and coordinated by Monica Sanchez. The program accepts applications through December 6, 2026. International Medical Graduates interested in this program may contact the program coordinator directly at [email protected] or (203) 732-7327. IMGPrep analysts have verified and compiled this program’s IMG acceptance rate, USMLE Step 1 and Step 2 score requirements, Visa Sponsorship Policy, graduation year cutoff, and ECFMG certificate requirements — available to IMGPrep subscribers.

Program Identity & Fit

Griffin Hospital offers a combined Internal Medicine-Preventive Medicine/MPH residency (plus advanced and categorical Preventive Medicine tracks) built around an academic partnership network including Yale School of Public Health, Yale School of Medicine, Yale Cancer Center, the Connecticut Department of Public Health, and the Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center, with Griffin Hospital itself serving as headquarters of Planetree, Inc. Training emphasizes population health management, social determinants of health, and lifestyle medicine, leveraging the hospital's status as an Accountable Care Organization for hands-on experience in value-based, community-level care delivery. Career outcomes are heavily weighted toward primary care and hospitalist practice, with a substantial subset pursuing subspecialty IM fellowships (cardiology, endocrinology, hematology-oncology, ID, geriatrics) and a smaller number entering preventive medicine subspecialties (occupational medicine, addiction medicine, lifestyle medicine). The program pairs each resident with a physician advisor for longitudinal mentorship and structures its identity around producing physician-leaders who integrate clinical medicine with public health practice rather than narrow biomedical researchers.

Who it fits

An applicant drawn to population-level health impact and public health leadership - someone with volunteer, community health, or lifestyle/behavioral medicine experience seeking an MPH-integrated pathway toward primary care, hospital medicine, or a population-health-oriented fellowship rather than a purely subspecialty-research track.

Research intensity

Moderate - research and scholarly activity are supported and visible in alumni output, but the program's stated identity centers on applied public health training and MPH integration rather than a formal research mandate.

Career orientation

Mixed - Primary Care, Community Practice, Fellowship

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