Minimum knowledge, skills, and abilities that are required to perform assigned duties.

A military treatment facility where patients are enrolled to a primary care manager (e.g., physician assistant, nurse practitioner, family medicine physician, internal medicine physician) who is designated as the patient’s primary medical provider.

Joins the care management and primary care behavioral health (PCBH) models of care so that behavioral health care facilitator (BHCF) (typically a nurse) and internal behavioral health consultant (IBHC) work together to provide behavioral health services as members of the primary care team.

A psychiatrist, psychiatric nurse practitioner, prescribing psychologist, or another provider credentialed for independent practice who can prescribe medication and has specialty training in the use of psychotropics. The behavioral health specialist with prescription privileges is typically a psychiatrist.

A program conducted under specific circumstances by veterinary or public health personnel to assess food operations to identify and mitigate risk from intentional and unintentional contamination. Circumstances under which an assessment is conducted include short term deployments, for deployed forces during initial entry deployment, and exercises and other...

Overarching term that includes both food safety and food defense.

The application of food safety principles to ensure safe food handling, preparation, and storage of prepared food in establishments that serve meals to DoD patrons.

The hands-on sensory and, when indicated, laboratory evaluation of food and food products for wholesomeness, condition, tampering, and quality. Food inspection encompasses source, delivery, storage, processing, sale and issue. It excludes food-service meal preparation.

The DoD veterinary services capability encompasses animal health and welfare and veterinary public health. Veterinary public health focuses on the animal health interface with human health and environmental health and is an essential part of public health. More specifically, veterinary services consist of the practice of veterinary medicine and surgery, i...

Protection measures necessary to identify and mitigate the threat of intentional contamination of food.

A program conducted by DoD veterinary or Military Services’ public health personnel to determine the vulnerability of an installation’s food and food service operations to natural or intentional contamination or destruction, including terrorist attacks. Assessments identify areas of improvement to withstand, mitigate, and deter such hazards. T...

A program normally conducted jointly by veterinary and public health personnel to identify and mitigate food safety hazards for special events held off installation.

Protection measures necessary to identify, mitigate, or eliminate the risk from unintentional contamination.

Small retail facilities under the control of DoD where the primary items for sale are packaged foods purchased for consumption outside the facility. Convenience stores may include shoppettes, mini-marts, or retail outlets. They may be equipped for minimal food processing operations.

A rapid food protection response to unexpected, imminent hazards, natural or manmade, that affect Department of Defense (DoD) feeding systems or affect those feeding systems with which DoD has written support agreements for response.