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What is Preventive Medicine?
Preventive Medicine is one of 24 medical
specialties recognized by the American
Board of Specialties (ABMS). Preventive
Medicine encompasses multiple
“population-based” and clinical approaches
to health care. Preventive Medicine is
defined by a set of
core competencies that include:
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Biostatistics/epidemiology
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Management/administration
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Clinical
Preventive Medicine
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Occupational health/environmental
health
What do Preventive
Medicine physicians do?
Physicians who are board certified in
Preventive Medicine hold a variety of
positions from chief medical officers of
private corporations, to directors of
state/local health departments, to policy
makers within governmental organizations,
to program developers for multi-national
NGOs, to many other positions (see the
“Careers in Preventive Medicine” slide
show). Career paths include managed care,
public health, occupational medicine,
aerospace medicine, clinical medicine,
informatics, policy development, academic
medicine, international medicine, and
research. These positions are located in
all levels of government, educational
institutions, organized medical care
programs in industry, as well as voluntary
health agencies and professional health
organizations.
Preventive
Medicine physicians operate in a variety
of settings, but common to these settings
is an approach to health that looks at
systemic and population-based
interventions to improve the health of
individuals.
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