The goal of the Bronx Regional Medicine-Public Health Center (RMPHEC) is to enhance the education of residents in four distinct specialties in public health, population health, prevention, and the role of physicians in public health promotion. These four specialties are all affiliated with the Albert Einstein College of Medicine (AECOM) in the Bronx, New York. They are emergency medicine and the Residency Program in Social Medicine, which includes learners from internal medicine, family medicine, and pediatrics. Their clinical homes are Montefiore Medical Center and Jacobi Medical Center, two large, urban teaching hospitals and integrated delivery systems with large ambulatory care networks located in the Bronx. Einstein, Montefiore, and Jacobi all have rich traditions of providing care for medically underserved populations, and studying health care disparities.

The Bronx RMPHEC will educate the 36 residents in each of its classes in principles and practice of public health, population health, and prevention via a combination of classroom and field learning experiences. Experiential curricula are given particular emphasis in the Bronx RMPHEC, and utilize already-existing rotations and relationships between AECOM and DOHMH or EMS. In addition, new rotations are proposed in regional health information management and tobacco control.

The public health entity that will partner with AECOM and its teaching hospitals is the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) and its Bronx District Public Health Office. AECOM and DOHMH have collaborated on research and intervention projects for many years. The Bronx Regional Medicine-Public Health Education Center  GME  represents a natural extension of these activities. The Bronx RMPHEC will place particular emphasis on educating residents about the social, behavioral, and environmental determinants of health in the Bronx, a borough of 1.4 million and the nation's poorest urban county.

Additional entities with which the Bronx RMPHEC will partner include the New York City Poison Control Center (part of DOHMH), the Fire Department of New York/Emergency Medical Services, the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, the Bronx Regional Health Information Organization, the New York Academy of Medicine, and the Yeshiva University/AECOM Institute for Public Health Sciences.

The Bronx RMPHEC is supported by a generous grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Association of American Medical Colleges.