1. Core knowledge content areas

The program must address in adequate depth and breadth the following competencies, skills, and knowledge that underlie the practice of preventive medicine:

1. Health services administration
2. Biostatistics
3. Epidemiology
4. Clinical preventive medicine
5. Behavioral aspects of health
6. Environmental health

2. Aerospace medicine knowledge content areas

1. History of aerospace medicine
2. The flight environment
3. Clinical aerospace medicine
4. Operational aerospace medicine
5. Management and administration

3. Occupational medicine knowledge content areas

1. Disability management and work fitness
2. Workplace health and surveillance
3. Hazard recognition, evaluation, and control
4. Clinical occupational medicine
5. Regulations and government agencies
6. Environmental health and risk assessment
7. Health promotion and clinical prevention
8. Management and administration
9. Toxicology

4. Public health and general preventive medicine

The knowledge content areas for public health and general preventive medicine, while similar to those of the core content areas, emphasize more in-depth knowledge in each area.

1. Health services administration, public health practice, and managerial medicine
2. Environmental health
3. Biostatistics
4. Epidemiology
5. Clinical preventive medicine

Documentation Requirements: Resident schedules, resident academic records, rotation and course descriptions, academic transcripts.

Measure: The academic courses cover the knowledge areas listed above.

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