American College of Preventive Medicine

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The American College of Preventive Medicine (ACPM) is a national professional society for physicians established in 1954. A Fellow of the American College of Preventive Medicine (FACPM) is a medical professional who has been a member of the American College of Preventive Medicine for a certain amount of time and who has passed a set of criteria for education, qualification and ethics required to become a Fellow of the American College of Preventive Medicine. FACPM is used as a post-nominal title.

Preventive medicine trained physicians have had training in both clinical medicine and public health and work to reduce the risks of disease, disability and death in the population.

In 2006, the ACPM issued the policy statement Abrupt Climate Change and Public Health Implication:

The American College of Preventive Medicine (ACPM) accept the position that global warming and climate change is occurring, that there is potential for abrupt climate change, and that human practices that increase greenhouse gases exacerbate the problem, and that the public health consequences may be severe.^[1]