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Reopening Shuttered Hospitals to Expand Surge Capacity

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Table 11. Public Health Service

Category	Description	Number of Regular and Reserve Corp as of 1/18/05
Medical	MD or DO with 1 year postgraduate medical education (internship or first year residency)	1133
Dental	DDS or DMD	471
Nurse	Bachelor or master's degree from an accredited nursing program.	1291
Engineer	Bachelor's or master's degree in engineering from an approved engineering program	410
Scientist	PhD, DPH, DSc, or EdD	258
Environ-mental Health Officer	Bachelor's, master's or doctoral degree in environmental health, industrial hygiene, or occupational health, or certification as an industrial hygienist or health physicist.	379
Veterinary	DVM	88
Pharmacy	BS or PharmD	902
Dietetics	Bachelor's, master's or doctoral degree in food and nutrition, dietetics, institutional management, public health nutrition, food science, sports nutrition, or animal nutrition	88
Therapy	Physical therapist, occupational therapist, speech and language pathology and audiology	120
Health Services Officer	Computer science/informational technology, dental hygiene, medical record administration, medical technology, physician assistant, biostatistics, chemistry, epidemiology, health education, health physics, health service administration, public health, social work, clinical psychology, optometry, podiatry.	850

Sources: Statistical Report, Public Health Service, Management Information System (http://dcp.psc.gov/rpt_select.asp)

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