摘要公共卫生医师是我国法定的四类医师之一，但其内涵定位尚未形成共识。存在的主要问题是把公共卫生医师与执行公共卫生任务的工作人员混为一谈，未明确公共卫生医师与临床医师的关系以及处方权内涵，公共卫生教育、相关法规存在局限性。公共卫生医师定位为针对群体健康相关问题开展监测、调查、评估和干预的专业技术人员。建议保留公共卫生医师执业资格，突出公共卫生医师针对群体健康开具大处方的属性，鼓励公共卫生医师获取临床医师执业资格，针对个体开具处方，鼓励临床医师获取公共卫生医师执业资格，改进公共卫生院校教育，试点公共卫生医师规范化培训，培养"防治结合"的医师。

abstractsPublic health physician is one of the four statutory types of physicians in China, but there is no consensus on their connotation. The main problems are that public health physician is confused with those who perform public health tasks, the relationship between public health physician and clinician and the connotation of prescription right is not clear, and there is limitation in public health education and relevant laws and regulations. Public health physician is positioned as professionals who monitor, investigate, evaluate, and intervene in population health-related issues. It is suggested to retain the practicing qualification of public health physicians and highlight the attribute of public health physicians′ prescribing the prescriptions for community health. Encourage public health physicians to obtain qualification for clinicians to individual prescription, Encourage clinicians to access to public health physician qualification. Improve public health school education, take the pilot of public health physician standardization training, cultivate "prevention and treatment combined" physician.