title: Preventive medicine matrix as a residency curriculum development tool.
abstract: Preventive medicine has become a central issue in health care reform, but how best to teach and implement health promotion/disease prevention (HP/DP) in clinical practice is still undefined. This article describes the Preventive Medicine Matrix as a tool to help organize the complex and broad area of prevention into a workable curriculum for residency programs. The matrix is divided into life-cycle periods and HP/DP curricular topics. Using the matrix, a program can assess the areas it is addressing well and those that require emphasis. A major strength of the matrix is its flexibility, which allows modifications for the different needs of individual programs.
authors.affiliation: Moses H. Cone Family Medicine Residency, Greensboro, NC, USA.
authors.forename: T A
authors.initials: TA
authors.lastname: Cable
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Delaney
mesh_terms: D003479:Curriculum; D005194:Family Practice / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency; D011315:Preventive Medicine / Q000193:education*