PURPOSE The purpose of this investigation was to examine the commissioning history of the professions of physicians, dentists, nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants and dental hygienists of the United States Public Health Service (USPHS), and to determine a critical pathway to commissioning new health care professions into the USPHS. The Advanced Dental Hygiene Practitioner (ADHP), ...

From the Jules Stein Eye Institute, Department of Anatomy, and Department of Pathology*, University of California School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California. Supported by USPHS EY-00444; USPHS EY-OO331; USPHS 5 T32 CAO9O3O; Bioscience Foundation Predoctoral Traineeship; J & E Bamburger Fellowship. Submitted for publication: June 3, 1983. Reprint requests: Michael T. Matthes, Jules Stein Eye In...

The Commissioned Corps of the US Public Health Service (USPHS), one of America's seven uniformed services, comprises more than 6700 public health professionals whose mission is to protect, promote, and advance the health and safety of the nation. The Scientist Category, one of 11 professional USPHS categories, includes more than 300 doctoral-level scientists stationed at various state and feder...

Studies to date have assessed wear of composite restorations in primary molars using the United States Public Health Service (USPHS) evaluation criteria. Direct clinical evaluations of 148 Ful-Fil® restorations using the USPHS wear criteria were made at baseline, 6, 12, and 24 months. Quantitative assessments were made by comparing calibrated standard casts with the die stone casts obtained at ...

Presented at the Twenty-ninth Annual Meeting of the Society for Investigative Dermatology, Inc., June 16—18, 1968, San Francisco, California. * From the Division of Dermatology, Department of Medicine, University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco, California. This study was supported in part by USPHS Research Grant No. CA 06386 from the National Cancer Institute, National Institut...