2083P0901X — Public Health & General Preventive Medicine Physician

Grouping

Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians

Classification

Preventive Medicine

Specialization

Public Health & General Preventive Medicine

Section

Individual

Definition

Public health and general preventive medicine focuses on promoting health, preventing disease, and managing the health of communities and defined populations. These practitioners combine population-based public health skills with knowledge of primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention-oriented clinical practice in a wide variety of settings.

NUCC’s own wording, not a paraphrase.

Other codes under Preventive Medicine

These are the codes a mis-selection most often lands on, because they share a classification and differ only by specialisation.

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• 2083P0500XPreventive Medicine/Occupational Environmental Medicine
• 2083S0010XSports Medicine
• 2083T0002XMedical Toxicology
• 2083X0100XOccupational Medicine