Preventive Medicine Residency Mock Interview

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Question 23 of 30

Name the four levels of prevention.

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Krista Wenz

Krista Wenz has been on thousands of interview panels hiring EMS professionals and firefighters for public and private agencies.

As a future preventive medicine physician, the interviewers expect you to know the four levels of prevention. The preventive levels are primordial prevention, primary prevention, secondary prevention, and tertiary prevention. Explain the four levels and how these strategies combined aim to prevent the onset of disease through risk reduction and downstream complications of a manifested disease.

Krista Wenz

Krista Wenz has been on thousands of interview panels hiring EMS professionals and firefighters for public and private agencies.

"The four levels of prevention are primordial, primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention. These strategies combined aim to prevent the onset of disease through risk reduction and downstream complications of a manifested disease."

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