PUBH 1001 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Emergency Medicine, Obstetrics, Public Health
Document Summary
Chapter 9- health professionals & the health workforce. Education and training are central to the development and definition of most health professions. Accreditation: a process of setting standards for educational and training institutions and enforcing these standards using a regularly scheduled institutional self-study and an outside review. Used to define and enforce educational expectations. Credentialing: a generic term indicating a process of verifying that an individual has the desirable or required qualifications to practice a profession. Certification: a profession-led process in which applicants who have completed the required educational process take an examination. Licensure: a state governmental function and usually requires more than a certification. Includes residency requirements, a legal background check, etc. Public health is one of the last fields to formalize educational and professional requirements. Only been available since 2008 when the first exam was given- covers the 5 areas expected for a masters of public. Allopathic physicians graduate with an md degree (approx 130 schools)
