Medical schools train excellent diagnosticians and treatment specialists — but they chronically underinvest in prevention education. The result is a healthcare workforce that is far better at managing disease than preventing it, and a system where patients are far more likely to receive a prescription than a prevention plan.
Dr. Paul Kilgore has spent decades on both sides of this gap. As a Wayne State University professor, he trains medical and public health students. As a practicing board-certified internist and epidemiologist with 150+ peer-reviewed publications, he sees the consequences of the education gap in his own patient population. And as the creator of the DETECTIVE Method™ and a library of 50+ health tools, he has built a bridge between academic medicine and practical prevention that students and patients can both use.
This session examines how medical education currently handles prevention, where it falls short, and what changes would produce clinicians who are as skilled at prevention strategy as they are at differential diagnosis. Dr. Kilgore draws on his teaching experience, his research, and international comparisons to propose a practical evolution in how we train the next generation of physicians and public health professionals.
Attendees leave with an understanding of the prevention education gap and concrete recommendations for closing it — whether they are educators, administrators, students, or policymakers.

Format: Grand rounds, keynote, or faculty development session. Duration: 45–60 minutes. Target audience: Medical educators, residency program directors, medical and public health students, academic administrators, health professions faculty. CME-eligible format available. AV needs: screen, microphone, HDMI.