The physician participating as a student in the graduate medical education program, often referred to as an “intern,” “resident,” or “fellow,” or defined by the year of participation in the program (e.g., “Postgraduate Year 1”).

A plan made annually by each Military Department listing the number and types of each specialty of physician to be trained.

Didactic and clinical education in a medical specialty or subspecialty that follows the completion of undergraduate medical education and prepares physicians for the independent practice of medicine in that specialty or subspecialty. This education is also referred to as residency or fellowship education. Completion of this education typically results in ...

The required military medical personnel identified by the MILDEPS for their wartime and related operational missions. This includes physician requirements by specialty, and contributes to the military medical personnel requirements necessary to meet the operational medical force readiness requirements.

The regular or repeated collection, analysis, and interpretation of health-related data and the dissemination of information to monitor the health of a population and to identify potential risks to health, thereby enabling timely interventions to prevent, treat, or control disease and injury. It includes occupational and environmental health surveillance ...

The product of collection, evaluation, and all-source analysis of worldwide health threats and issues, including foreign medical capabilities, infectious disease, environmental health risks, developments in biotechnology and biomedical subjects of national and military importance, and support to force protection

A health system that supports the military mission by fostering,  protecting, sustaining, and restoring health and providing the  direction, resources, health care providers, and other means necessary  for promoting the health of the beneficiary population.

All measures taken by commanders, supervisors, individual Service members, and the MHS to promote, protect, improve, conserve, and restore the mental and physical well being of Service members across the range of military activities and operations. These measures enable the fielding of a healthy and fit force, prevention of injuries and illness and protec...

Calculating a future event or condition as a result of study and analysis of available, pertinent data. In relation to biosurveillance, forecasting attempts to describe future outcomes or impacts of a current health risk within a given community.

The programs, activities, and subsequent risk determination associated with the anticipation, recognition, evaluation, and potential control of hazards identified within the media of the environment. Environmental health focuses on the reduction or mitigation of the health hazards identified in the operational or garrison environment.

The ongoing, systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of data derived from instances of medical care or medical evaluation, and the reporting of population based information for characterizing and countering threats to a population’s health, well-being, and performance.

The process of gathering, integrating, interpreting, and communicating essential information related to all-hazards threats or disease activity affecting human, animal, or plant health to achieve early detection and warning, contribute to overall situational awareness of the health aspects of an incident, and to enable better decision making at all levels...

Efforts against actors of concern to curtail the conceptualization, development, possession, proliferation, use, and effects of WMD, related expertise, materials, technologies, and means of delivery.

Health surveillance conducted throughout Service members’ military careers and DOD civilian employees’ employment, across all duty locations, and encompassing risk, intervention, and outcome data. Such surveillance is essential to the evaluation, planning, and implementation of public health practice and prevention and must be closely integrat...

Information that informs biosurveillance activities to include, but not limited to, information from health surveillance, medical surveillance, environmental and occupational health surveillance, veterinary health surveillance, disease vector surveillance, and surveillance of chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear threats.