Students, Medical
Students, Dental
Students, Pharmacy
Click Chemistry
Organic chemistry methodology that mimics the modular nature of various biosynthetic processes. It uses highly reliable and selective reactions designed to "click" i.e., rapidly join small modular units together in high yield, without offensive byproducts. In combination with COMBINATORIAL CHEMISTRY TECHNIQUES, it is used for the synthesis of new compounds and combinatorial libraries.
Universities
Education, Medical, Undergraduate
The period of medical education in a medical school. In the United States it follows the baccalaureate degree and precedes the granting of the M.D.
Educational Measurement
The assessing of academic or educational achievement. It includes all aspects of testing and test construction.
Students, Health Occupations
Individuals enrolled in a school or formal educational program in the health occupations.
Chemistry, Clinical
The specialty of ANALYTIC CHEMISTRY applied to assays of physiologically important substances found in blood, urine, tissues, and other biological fluids for the purpose of aiding the physician in making a diagnosis or following therapy.
Chemistry, Organic
Student Health Services
Health services for college and university students usually provided by the educational institution.
Education, Pharmacy
Formal instruction, learning, or training in the preparation, dispensing, and proper utilization of drugs in the field of medicine.
Education, Dental
Use for articles concerning dental education in general.
Problem-Based Learning
Instructional use of examples or cases to teach using problem-solving skills and critical thinking.
Physiology
The biological science concerned with the life-supporting properties, functions, and processes of living organisms or their parts.
Education, Medical
Use for general articles concerning medical education.
Clinical Clerkship
Questionnaires
Clinical Competence
Computer-Assisted Instruction
Clinical Chemistry Tests
Chemistry
A basic science concerned with the composition, structure, and properties of matter; and the reactions that occur between substances and the associated energy exchange.
Biology
One of the BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE DISCIPLINES concerned with the origin, structure, development, growth, function, genetics, and reproduction of animals, plants, and microorganisms.
Models, Educational
Faculty
The teaching staff and members of the administrative staff having academic rank in an educational institution.
Attitude
Learning
Relatively permanent change in behavior that is the result of past experience or practice. The concept includes the acquisition of knowledge.
Chemistry, Analytic
The branch of chemistry dealing with detection (qualitative) and determination (quantitative) of substances. (Grant & Hackh's Chemical Dictionary, 5th ed)
Combinatorial Chemistry Techniques
Educational Technology
Systematic identification, development, organization, or utilization of educational resources and the management of these processes. It is occasionally used also in a more limited sense to describe the use of equipment-oriented techniques or audiovisual aids in educational settings. (Thesaurus of ERIC Descriptors, December 1993, p132)
Preceptorship
Attitude of Health Personnel
Student Dropouts
Individuals who leave school, secondary or college, prior to completion of specified curriculum requirements.
School Admission Criteria
Requirements for the selection of students for admission to academic institutions.
Program Evaluation
Education, Graduate
Anatomy
A branch of biology dealing with the structure of organisms.
Achievement
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
Education, Distance
Education via communication media (correspondence, radio, television, computer networks) with little or no in-person face-to-face contact between students and teachers. (ERIC Thesaurus, 1997)
Patient Simulation
Education, Nursing
Use for general articles concerning nursing education.
Cross-Sectional Studies
Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prize is not a medical term, but a prestigious international award given annually in several categories, including Physiology or Medicine, for significant contributions to humanity that have conferred the greatest benefit to mankind.
Education, Veterinary
Use for general articles concerning veterinary medical education.
Chemistry, Pharmaceutical
Mentors
Data Collection
Systematic gathering of data for a particular purpose from various sources, including questionnaires, interviews, observation, existing records, and electronic devices. The process is usually preliminary to statistical analysis of the data.
Health Occupations
Professions or other business activities directed to the cure and prevention of disease. For occupations of medical personnel who are not physicians but who are working in the fields of medical technology, physical therapy, etc., ALLIED HEALTH OCCUPATIONS is available.
Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate
Faculty, Medical
The teaching staff and members of the administrative staff having academic rank in a medical school.
Peer Group
Alkynes
Molecular Structure
Dental Hygienists
Faculty, Dental
The teaching staff and members of the administrative staff having academic rank in a dental school.
Education, Pharmacy, Graduate
Educational programs for pharmacists who have a bachelor's degree or a Doctor of Pharmacy degree entering a specific field of pharmacy. They may lead to an advanced degree.
Chemistry Techniques, Synthetic
Writing
Competency-Based Education
Educational programs designed to ensure that students attain prespecified levels of competence in a given field or training activity. Emphasis is on achievement or specified objectives.
Schools, Pharmacy
Educational institutions for individuals specializing in the field of pharmacy.
International Educational Exchange
Dentistry, Operative
That phase of clinical dentistry concerned with the restoration of parts of existing teeth that are defective through disease, trauma, or abnormal development, to the state of normal function, health, and esthetics, including preventive, diagnostic, biological, mechanical, and therapeutic techniques, as well as material and instrument science and application. (Jablonski's Dictionary of Dentistry, 2d ed, p237)
Thinking
Mental activity, not predominantly perceptual, by which one apprehends some aspect of an object or situation based on past learning and experience.
Training Support
Green Chemistry Technology
Organic Chemistry Phenomena
Community Dentistry
Motivation
School Health Services
Biochemistry
Professional Competence
Alcohol Drinking
Prosthodontics
United States
The term "United States" in a medical context often refers to the country where a patient or study participant resides, and is not a medical term per se, but relevant for epidemiological studies, healthcare policies, and understanding differences in disease prevalence, treatment patterns, and health outcomes across various geographic locations.
Internet
A loose confederation of computer communication networks around the world. The networks that make up the Internet are connected through several backbone networks. The Internet grew out of the US Government ARPAnet project and was designed to facilitate information exchange.
Communication
Perception
Biological Science Disciplines
All of the divisions of the natural sciences dealing with the various aspects of the phenomena of life and vital processes. The concept includes anatomy and physiology, biochemistry and biophysics, and the biology of animals, plants, and microorganisms. It should be differentiated from BIOLOGY, one of its subdivisions, concerned specifically with the origin and life processes of living organisms.
Education of Hearing Disabled
The teaching or training of those individuals with hearing disability or impairment.
Feedback
A mechanism of communication within a system in that the input signal generates an output response which returns to influence the continued activity or productivity of that system.
Group Processes
Role Playing
Education, Premedical
Preparatory education meeting the requirements for admission to medical school.
Endodontics
Program Development
The process of formulating, improving, and expanding educational, managerial, or service-oriented work plans (excluding computer program development).
Vocational Guidance
Systematic efforts to assist individuals in selecting an occupation or suitable employment on the basis of aptitude, education, etc.
Knowledge
Sex Factors
Maleness or femaleness as a constituent element or influence contributing to the production of a result. It may be applicable to the cause or effect of a circumstance. It is used with human or animal concepts but should be differentiated from SEX CHARACTERISTICS, anatomical or physiological manifestations of sex, and from SEX DISTRIBUTION, the number of males and females in given circumstances.
Cultural Diversity
Education, Professional
Formal education and training in preparation for the practice of a profession.
Dental Clinics
Facilities where dental care is provided to patients.
Chemistry Techniques, Analytical
Osteopathic Medicine
A medical discipline that is based on the philosophy that all body systems are interrelated and dependent upon one another for good health. This philosophy, developed in 1874 by Dr. Andrew Taylor Still, recognizes the concept of "wellness" and the importance of treating illness within the context of the whole body. Special attention is placed on the MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM.
Internship and Residency
Self-Evaluation Programs
Educational programs structured in such a manner that the participating professionals, physicians, or students develop an increased awareness of their performance, usually on the basis of self-evaluation questionnaires.
Health Education
Education that increases the awareness and favorably influences the attitudes and knowledge relating to the improvement of health on a personal or community basis.
Manikins
Surface Properties
Educational Status
Educational attainment or level of education of individuals.
Interdisciplinary Studies
Chemistry, Physical
Textbooks as Topic
Evolution, Chemical
Chemical and physical transformation of the biogenic elements from their nucleosynthesis in stars to their incorporation and subsequent modification in planetary bodies and terrestrial biochemistry. It includes the mechanism of incorporation of biogenic elements into complex molecules and molecular systems, leading up to the origin of life.
Personnel Selection
Prevalence
Alcoholic Intoxication
Psychology, Educational
Education
Acquisition of knowledge as a result of instruction in a formal course of study.
Aptitude Tests
Primarily non-verbal tests designed to predict an individual's future learning ability or performance.
Social Perception
Cyclization
Problem Solving
A learning situation involving more than one alternative from which a selection is made in order to attain a specific goal.
Empathy
An individual's objective and insightful awareness of the feelings and behavior of another person. It should be distinguished from sympathy, which is usually nonobjective and noncritical. It includes caring, which is the demonstration of an awareness of and a concern for the good of others. (From Bioethics Thesaurus, 1992)
Webcasts as Topic
Transmission of live or pre-recorded audio or video content via connection or download from the INTERNET.
Pharmacology, Clinical
Comprehensive Dental Care
Professional Practice Location
Pilot Projects
Cultural Competency
Cultural and linguistic competence is a set of congruent behaviors, attitudes, and policies that come together in a system, agency, or among professionals that enables effective work in cross-cultural situations. Competence implies the capacity to function effectively as an individual and an organization within the context of the cultural beliefs, behaviors, and needs presented by consumers and their communities.
Remedial Teaching
Specialized instruction for students deviating from the expected norm.
Multimedia
Medically Underserved Area
Ethics, Dental
The principles of proper professional conduct concerning the rights and duties of the dentist, relations with patients and fellow practitioners, as well as actions of the dentist in patient care and interpersonal relations with patient families. (From Stedman, 25th ed)
Rural Health Services
Test Taking Skills
Social Environment
Comprehension
Pharmaceutical Services
Total pharmaceutical services provided by qualified PHARMACISTS. In addition to the preparation and distribution of medical products, they may include consultative services provided to agencies and institutions which do not have a qualified pharmacist.
Personal Satisfaction
Education, Medical, Graduate
Models, Chemical
Minority Groups
Malaysia
A parliamentary democracy with a constitutional monarch in southeast Asia, consisting of 11 states (West Malaysia) on the Malay Peninsula and two states (East Malaysia) on the island of BORNEO. It is also called the Federation of Malaysia. Its capital is Kuala Lumpur. Before 1963 it was the Union of Malaya. It reorganized in 1948 as the Federation of Malaya, becoming independent from British Malaya in 1957 and becoming Malaysia in 1963 as a federation of Malaya, Sabah, Sarawak, and Singapore (which seceded in 1965). The form Malay- probably derives from the Tamil malay, mountain, with reference to its geography. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p715 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p329)
Models, Molecular
College Admission Test
Test designed to identify students suitable for admission into a graduate or undergraduate curriculum.
Pediatric Dentistry
The practice of dentistry concerned with the dental problems of children, proper maintenance, and treatment. The dental care may include the services provided by dental specialists.
Research
Critical and exhaustive investigation or experimentation, having for its aim the discovery of new facts and their correct interpretation, the revision of accepted conclusions, theories, or laws in the light of newly discovered facts, or the practical application of such new or revised conclusions, theories, or laws. (Webster, 3d ed)
Internship, Nonmedical
Cooperative Behavior
Social Facilitation
Reproducibility of Results
The statistical reproducibility of measurements (often in a clinical context), including the testing of instrumentation or techniques to obtain reproducible results. The concept includes reproducibility of physiological measurements, which may be used to develop rules to assess probability or prognosis, or response to a stimulus; reproducibility of occurrence of a condition; and reproducibility of experimental results.
Risk-Taking
Undertaking a task involving a challenge for achievement or a desirable goal in which there is a lack of certainty or a fear of failure. It may also include the exhibiting of certain behaviors whose outcomes may present a risk to the individual or to those associated with him or her.
Education, Special
Oxidation-Reduction
A chemical reaction in which an electron is transferred from one molecule to another. The electron-donating molecule is the reducing agent or reductant; the electron-accepting molecule is the oxidizing agent or oxidant. Reducing and oxidizing agents function as conjugate reductant-oxidant pairs or redox pairs (Lehninger, Principles of Biochemistry, 1982, p471).
Analysis of Variance
Catalysis
Knowledge of Results (Psychology)
Brazil
Health Behavior
Behaviors expressed by individuals to protect, maintain or promote their health status. For example, proper diet, and appropriate exercise are activities perceived to influence health status. Life style is closely associated with health behavior and factors influencing life style are socioeconomic, educational, and cultural.
Community Medicine
Physics
Persons With Hearing Impairments
Cosmic Dust
Illinois
I'm sorry for any confusion, but "Illinois" is a state in the United States and not a term that has a medical definition.
Drug Design
The molecular designing of drugs for specific purposes (such as DNA-binding, enzyme inhibition, anti-cancer efficacy, etc.) based on knowledge of molecular properties such as activity of functional groups, molecular geometry, and electronic structure, and also on information cataloged on analogous molecules. Drug design is generally computer-assisted molecular modeling and does not include pharmacokinetics, dosage analysis, or drug administration analysis.
Extraterrestrial Environment
Focus Groups
A method of data collection and a QUALITATIVE RESEARCH tool in which a small group of individuals are brought together and allowed to interact in a discussion of their opinions about topics, issues, or questions.
Kansas
I'm sorry for any confusion, but "Kansas" is a geographical location and not a medical term or condition. It's a state located in the Midwestern United States. If you have any questions related to medical topics, I'd be happy to help!
Dental Care
Ethics, Medical
The principles of professional conduct concerning the rights and duties of the physician, relations with patients and fellow practitioners, as well as actions of the physician in patient care and interpersonal relations with patient families.
Education, Predental
Preparatory education meeting the requirements for admission to dental school.
Pharmacists
Faculty, Nursing
The teaching staff and members of the administrative staff having academic rank in a nursing school.