Military Health System

A marked incongruence between one’s experienced or expressed gender and assigned gender of at least six months’ duration, as manifested by conditions specified in the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and ...

A program established by the Secretary of the Army to provide a personnel accounting category for members of the Army Selected Reserve to be used for categorizing members of the Selected Reserve who have not completed the minimum training ...

The use of feminizing hormones in an individual assigned male at birth based on traditional biological indicators or the use of masculinizing hormones in an individual assigned female at birth. A common medical treatment associated with gender ...

Any military, government service, or contract civilian health care professional who, in accordance with regulations of a military department or DHA, is credentialed and granted clinical practice privileges to provide health care services ...

The care required to diagnose and treat problems that are not life or limb threatening or that do not require immediate attention.

Individually identifiable health information (as defined in the HIPAA Privacy Rule) that, except as provided in this issuance, is transmitted or maintained by electronic or any other form or medium. PHI excludes individually identifiable ...

Information that can be used to distinguish or trace an individual’s identity, either alone or when combined with other information that is linked or linkable to a specific individual. Defined in OMB Circular No. A-130. 

The education that begins after completion of the basic professional degree and is comprised of internships, residencies, and fellowships completed by physicians, dentists, veterinarians, or other health care specialists in their respective ...

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., ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...