Preventive Medicine - Education
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Firearm injury prevention training in Preventive Medicine Residency programs.

30 Jul 2009 Preventive medicine plays a central role in the reducing the number of deaths due to preventable causes of premature deaths. General Preventive Medicine Residency programs have not been studied in relation to training in this area. A three-wave mail ... Read more...

Improving preventive health services training in chiropractic colleges part II: enhancing outcomes through improved training and accountability processes.

29 Jun 2009 OBJECTIVE: Over the past decade, chiropractic colleges have introduced clinical prevention services (CPS) training. This has included an updated public health curriculum and procedures for student interns to determine the need for preventive ... Read more...

[Regional infection control network in limited resource hospitals]

29 Apr 2009 There are many hospitals and clinics in Japan. However, a large number comprise small-scale facilities that do not have a specialist in the management of contagious diseases or bacteriological testing facilities. Although foundation hospitals such ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Preventive Medicine - Education'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Careers in cardiovascular disease epidemiology and prevention. 9 Aug 2009
• Firearm injury prevention training in Preventive Medicine Residency programs. 30 Jul 2009
• Improving preventive health services training in chiropractic colleges part II: enhancing outcomes through improved training and accountability processes. 29 Jun 2009
• [Regional infection control network in limited resource hospitals] 29 Apr 2009
• Improving pediatric preventive care. 19 Mar 2009
• [Should the prevention of obesity be a task for medical practitioners?] 27 Jan 2009
• [Vaccination campaigns against poliomyelitis in Spain in 1963.] 30 Dec 2008
• Understanding the nutrigenomic definitions and concepts at the food-genome junction. 29 Nov 2008
• Emphasizing preventive care. 30 Oct 2008
• Experiences with a combined residency in internal and preventive medicine. 29 Sep 2008
• A call to prevent... 30 Mar 2008
• Training and equipping the Iraqi Army in preventive medicine: part 1--a comprehensive strategy. 30 Mar 2008
• Steps to improve the teaching of public health to undergraduate medical students in Canada. 30 Mar 2008
• Improving the health of the community: Duke's experience with community engagement. 30 Mar 2008
• The education of physicians: a CDC perspective. 30 Mar 2008
• Residency education, preventive medicine, and population health care improvement: the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Leadership Preventive Medicine approach. 30 Mar 2008
• The MD-MPH program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 30 Mar 2008
• Training medical students in community health: a novel required fourth-year clerkship at the University of Rochester. 30 Mar 2008
• An enhancement strategy for integration of population health into medical school education: employing the framework developed by the Healthy People Curriculum Task Force. 30 Mar 2008
• Teaching population health as a basic science at Harvard Medical School. 30 Mar 2008

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Technical information about 'Preventive Medicine'

Definition: A medical specialty primarily concerned with prevention of disease (PRIMARY PREVENTION) and the promotion and preservation of health in the individual.

Descriptor UI: D011315

Alternative terms: Preventive Medicine; Medicine, Preventive;

Related Mesh Headings: Health Promotion; Preventive Health Services; Public Health;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; education; history; instrumentation; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; methods; organization & administration; standards; trends; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: H02.403.776.630;

Technical Notes: SPEC only: SPEC qualif; for specific disease, use /prev: Manual 19.7+, 19.8.58; primary prev = PRIMARY PREVENTION, secondary prev = diag & ther, tertiary prev = REHABILITATION; DF: PREV MED