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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Glossary and Acronyms." Institute of Medicine. 2007. Training Physicians for Public Health Careers. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11915.
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APPENDIX B
Glossary and Acronyms

AAPHP American Association of Public Health Physicians

ACGME Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education

AHD Academic Health Department

AMA American Medical Association

ASPH Association of Schools of Public Health

BLS Bureau of Labor Statistics

CDC Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

CEPH Council on Education for Public Health

CME continuing medical education

DHHS U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

DHP Defense Health Program

EIS Epidemic Intelligence Service

FY fiscal year

GME graduate medical education

Governmental public health agencies Federal, state, and local public health agencies

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Glossary and Acronyms." Institute of Medicine. 2007. Training Physicians for Public Health Careers. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11915.
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Healthy People 2010 A national health promotion and disease prevention initiative

HPSP Armed Forces Health Professions Scholarship Program

HRSA Health Resources and Services Administration

IOM Institute of Medicine

LHD local health department

LHO local health officer

M.P.H. master of public health degree

NHSC National Health Service Corps

NLN National Public Health Leadership Development Network

PH/GPM public health/general preventive medicine

PHTN Public Health Training Network

Public health physician A physician “whose training, practice and world view are based in large part on a population focus rather than individual practice, that is, on assuring the availability of essential public health services to a population using skills such as leadership, management and education as well as clinical interventions.”

TRAIN Training Finder Real-Time Affiliate Integrated Network

USUHS Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

VA U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Glossary and Acronyms." Institute of Medicine. 2007. Training Physicians for Public Health Careers. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11915.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Glossary and Acronyms." Institute of Medicine. 2007. Training Physicians for Public Health Careers. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11915.
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Public health efforts have resulted in tremendous improvements in the health of individuals and communities. The foundation for effective public health interventions rests, in large part, on a well-trained workforce. Unfortunately there is a major shortage of public health physicians who are prepared to face today's public health challenges.

Training Physicians for Public Health Careers focuses on the critical roles that physicians play in maintaining and strengthening the public health system, identifies what these physicians need to know to engage in effective public health actions, explores the kinds of training programs that can be used to prepare physicians for public health roles, and examines how these training programs can be funded. Medical schools, schools of public health, health care and public health care professionals, medical students and students of public health will find this of special interest.

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