Loma Linda University Health Education Consortium Public Health and General Preventive Medicine Program

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

Loma Linda University Health Education Consortium Public Health and General Preventive Medicine Program

Loma Linda University Health Education Consortium Public Health and General Preventive Medicine Program is a residency program specializing in Preventative Medicine (Gen Prev Med, Occ Med, Aer Med, & Pub Hlth), located in Loma Linda, California, directed by Karen Studer and coordinated by Paulina Salcedo.. International Medical Graduates interested in this program may contact the program coordinator directly at [email protected] or 909-558-6000 . 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

This is a long-standing (over 40 years), university-affiliated Preventive Medicine/Public Health residency built around lifestyle medicine as its organizing clinical philosophy, having helped co-create the Lifestyle Medicine Residency Curriculum with the American College of Lifestyle Medicine. Residents train across a deliberately varied population-health landscape - VA, Kaiser, county health departments, a managed care company, and SAC Health (a local FQHC) - while pursuing a fully-funded MPH and a distinctive culinary medicine curriculum focused on nutrition-based disease reversal. Protected, supported research time is built into training, and the program offers five named Plus One fellowship concentrations (Lifestyle Medicine, Obesity Medicine, Global Health, Women's Health, Quality Improvement), signaling a strong emphasis on subspecialization within preventive medicine. The program values residents oriented toward whole-person, population-level prevention work and chronic disease reversal rather than acute or procedural care, with graduates going on to public health agencies, CDC roles, private practice, and further fellowship training.

Who it fits

An applicant whose ERAS narrative centers on lifestyle medicine, nutrition-based chronic disease prevention, or population/public health work - rather than acute inpatient or procedural care - and who wants a protected MPH plus flexible fellowship concentration to specialize further.

Research intensity

Strong - protected and supported research time is described as required, not merely optional, alongside a funded MPH.

Career orientation

Mixed - Fellowship, Public Health/Population Medicine, Academic Medicine

Important

The program states it seeks applicants who are passionate about living, learning, and teaching lifestyle medicine and applying it to the broader context of public health, and expects clear future commitment to participate in the medical outreach of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

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