Chief Healthcare Executive April 16, 2024
Ron Southwick

Mirza Rahman, president of the American College of Preventive Medicine, talks about the need for more federal support for residency programs and a greater appreciation for population health.

When asked if preventive medicine is gaining more appreciation, Dr. Mirza Rahman clearly wishes he could say yes.

“Preventive medicine, unfortunately, gets short shrift,” he says.

Rahman, MD, is the president of the American College of Preventive Medicine, an organization of 2,000 physicians. He talks about preventive medicine in the latest installment of the Healthy Bottom Line podcast, which dropped today.

“You would think, post-pandemic, we would recognize the value of preventive medicine physicians, but unfortunately, this is not true,” Rahman says.

Rahman talks about the importance of preventive medicine, which focuses...

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