Abstract
Public health and preventive medicine (PHPM) specialist physicians focus on the population rather than individuals as their patients. These specialists assess the health status of a community and subsequently develop, implement and evaluate effective interventions at the population level to improve health. This work brings together their medical expertise, population health approach and management/ leadership skills. The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (RCPSC) states that ‘the Public Health and Preventive Medicine or community medicine (as called previously) specialist uses population health knowledge and skills to play leading and collaborative roles in the maintenance and improvement of the health and well-being of the community’. It is a broad speciality that requires strong generalist skills including in preventive medicine, management, epidemiology, emergency response, health promotion, and health protection.
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