Training Physicians for Public Health Careers (2007)
Chapter: Appendix B: Glossary and Acronyms
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
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
