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Training Physicians For Public Health Careers
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