Preventive medicine residency training: a resident's perspective.

Preventive medicine as a discipline confronts considerable internal and external pressure today about society's needs for prevention specialists. Training in the field has remained static in the face of great changes. This article asserts the need to reassess the philosophy, content, and structure of graduate training in preventive medicine. The field of preventive medicine faces an identity crisis of its own making, trying to be everything to everybody. The need for funding to overcome the shortage of specialists remains a critical but difficult issue that demands innovative solutions.