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- See also changes related to Medical education, or pages that link to Medical education or to this page or whose text contains "Medical education".
Parent topics
- Medicine: The study of health and disease of the human body. [e]
- Medical education: Learning process of being a medical practitioner, either the initial training to become a doctor or further training thereafter (including residency). [e]
Subtopics
- Alternative medicine: Add brief definition or description
- Geriatric medicine: Add brief definition or description
- Medical error: Mistakes made in a medical setting with respect to patient care, sanitation or medical administration. A mistake is less than optimal action, thus failure to set up efficient procedures and routines which minimize mistakes is medical error. [e]
- Pathology: Add brief definition or description
- Pediatric medicine: Add brief definition or description
- Preventive medicine: A medical specialty concerned with recognizing and reducing health hazards to populations and individuals, with specialties that include the emergency recognition of infectious or environmental hazards, and the treatment of adverse effects of high (undersea) and low (aerospace) medicine, social behavior (e.g., drug abuse) and poisoning [e]
- Psychiatry: The subfield of health sciences concerned with mental disorders. [e]
- Telemedicine: The use of electronic communications to enable providers to diagnose, provide information, and deliver health services when they are not available for on-site service delivery [e]
- Abraham Flexner: (1866-1959) American educator who fundamentally influenced medical education and university standards. [e]
- Flexner Report: Influential report on medical school curricula in the USA (1910), which transformed it to one based on scientific preparation and formal education. [e]
- National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Add brief definition or description
- School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University: A prestigious medical education and research center, headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland; often considered the first modern medical school to meet the full goals of the Flexner Report [e]
- William Osler: physician, educator, medical philosopher, and historian from Canada, often called the Father of Modern Medicine. [e]