Subspecialty Certification: Correctional (Carceral) Medicine

What is Carceral Medicine?

The field of correctional (carceral) medicine is based on a distinct body of knowledge that integrates clinical, administrative, and leadership competencies that address the systems-based health and health care needs of incarcerated people. While physicians in this field engage in the provision of primary, emergency, and preventive care, correctional (carceral) medicine requires the ability to ensure that the full scope of patients’ health needs are addressed in complex environments and situations that are unlike those commonly encountered in specialty- and subspecialty-based graduate medical education programs.

Eligibility Requirements

• Have graduated from a COCA-accredited college of osteopathic medicine and have completed an AOA or ACGME-accredited training program OR be a graduate of a LCME-accredited medical school and have completed an ACGME-accredited training program.

• AOA Board Certified in either Family Practice, Internal Medicine, or Occupational and Preventive Medicine

• Have satisfactorily completed a two-year Correctional Medicine Fellowship (one year if the MPH degree is already completed)

Nova Southeastern University College of Osteopathic Medicine (NSU-COM) in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, is the only fellowship program in this field currently approved by the American Osteopathic Conjoint Committee of Correctional Medicine.  The Correctional Medicine Written Examination will be offered annually at the fall OMED conference.

For More Information

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