STANDARDIZATION OF PUBLIC HEALTH TRAINING

Global public health training.

The debate about whether to call our specialty public health or global health seems rather like angels dancing on a pin head as we face the choppy waters of change. In response to Jeffrey Koplan’s attempt to define differences between global, international and public health the deans in the USA voiced their opinion that since many public health challenges were global, an understanding of the wi...

Public health residency training.

Is DIDN'T KNOW there was such a thing." We have heard this statement repeatedly from intern and practicing physician alike. The "thing" they refer to is the residency program in public health. While residencies in clinical specialties are well known and accepted, such is not the case in the field of public health. Perhaps this is because the specialty is only about 8 years old. By June 30, 1956...

Training tomorrow's public health leaders.

S&I Public Health Reporting Initiative: Improving Standardization of Surveillance

Objective The objective of this panel is to inform the ISDS community of the progress made in the Standards & Interoperability (S&I) Framework Public Health Reporting Initiative (PHRI). Also, it will provide some context of how the initiative will likely affect biosurveillance reporting in Meaningful Use Stage 3 and future harmonization of data standards requirements for public health reporting.

Standardization of interventional pulmonology training.

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