ProgramCIP 61.2301

Public Health and General Preventive Medicine Residency Program

A 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. This CIP code is not valid for IPEDS reporting.

Definition from U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics (CIP 2020).

Also called Public Health Medicine Residency Program, Preventive Medicine Residency Program.

Replaces earlier code 60.0429.