Stony Brook Medicine-University Hospital Program

Program Identity & Fit

Stony Brook's General Preventive Medicine and Public Health residency is an academic, two-year MPH-integrated program built around a dense network of affiliated public health and clinical sites, including Nassau and Suffolk County Departments of Health, the Northport VA Medical Center, IPRO, and Brookhaven National Laboratory's occupational medicine clinic. Training blends population-level practicum rotations (environmental health, health department administration, emergency preparedness) with direct patient care experiences in VA-based wellness, smoking cessation, and chronic disease clinics, plus optional occupational medicine exposure. The program explicitly requires prior board-eligible clinical training and structures itself around producing graduates for public health leadership, quality improvement, occupational medicine, academia, and federal/state health agency roles rather than clinical fellowship subspecialization. It values residents who bring an established clinical background and a genuine orientation toward systems-level, administrative, and population health practice rather than bedside subspecialty care.