Public health medicine is the vocational branch of medicine concerned with protecting and improving the health of the population rather than treating individual patients. Public health doctors respond to health risks and communicable disease/environmental risks to minimise further cases, monitor the health status of the community, develop programmes to reduce risk and to screen for early disease, and plan for the provision of health care.
Registrars undertaking vocational training in public health medicine in New Zealand complete a four-year training programme, which consists of 16 months Basic Training (during which time a Masters of Public Health is completed) and a further 29 months of Advanced Training.
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The Training Programme aims to develop competencies required for Fellows to undertake a broad variety of roles and challenges while practising public health medicine.
These roles include the following:
The New Zealand Population Health Charitable Trust (NZPHCT) administers and provides the training programme. For more information visit the Population Health website.
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