University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine

The University of North Carolina has developed a fellowship in violence prevention, with options to focus on child maltreatment, domestic violence, or youth violence within the rubric of the preventive medicine residency. Fellows will spend the first year learning research skills and acquiring an MPH in Epidemiology, Outcomes Research or Maternal and Child Health. Clinical activities in the first year include work in a multidisciplinary child abuse center that is a joint undertaking between Duke and UNC Medical Centers; work on the consultation team for domestic violence for the UNC hospitals, and acute care clinical work. The second year involves 30 working days at the state health department or a national health agency, completion of a major research project, and continued clinical work in one or more areas of violence specialization. The Duke-UNC Center medically examines over 800 children/year, treats over 400 children and families in the mental health clinic, trains all of the new social workers in the state, and hosts over $7 million/year in child abuse research. The Center also is the home for the state's Child Medical Evaluation Program.

Applicants are required to have completed a primary care training program in Internal Medicine, Family Practice, or Pediatrics. At the completion of the program, fellows will be eligible for the American Board of Preventive medicine. It is expected that the fellows will have developed significant expertise in clinical evaluations, research, and policy issues when they finish.

Fellowship is supported as part of the General Preventive Medicine Residency.

Preventive Medicine Residency/Fellowship in Violence Prevention
Department of Social Medicine
Campus Box 7240, UNC
Chapel Hill, NC 27599