Variant of the Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) Canada 2021 Version 1.0 for Primary groupings

• 10 - Health and related fields
• 61. - Medical residency/fellowship programs
• 61.23 - Preventive medicine residency/fellowship programs

61.2301 - Public health and general preventive medicine residency programs

This instructional program class comprises any residency training program that prepares physicians to promote health, prevent disease, and manage the health of communities and defined populations; combines population-based public health skills with knowledge of primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention-oriented clinical practice in a wide variety of settings. One of three general certificates in the area of preventive medicine. Note: this medical specialty merges the previous subspecialties of preventive medicine and public health medicine.

• Illustrative example(s)

  • preventive medicine - residency
  • public health and general preventive medicine - residency
  • public health and preventive medicine - residency
  • public health medicine - residency

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• Exclusion(s)

  • epidemiology(26.1309)
  • public health (MPH, DPH)(51.2201)
  • public health nurse(51.3811)
  • undersea and hyperbaric medicine - fellowship(61.0216)