| AMSP | Association of Medical School Pharmacology |
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| ASHA | American School Health Association; American Social Health Association; American Speech and Hearing ... |
| FNFMG | foreign national foreign medical school graduate |
| FORIMG | foreign national international medical school graduate |
| LSHTM | London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine |
| dogmatic school | Ancient Greek school or tradition in medicine whose members were the successors to or followers of Hippocrates; they based their conceptions of disease upon the humoral theory and their practice upon experience and sound reasoning, and were comparatively free from fads, speculative theories, and dogma, which the term dogmatic falsely implies. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| iatromathematical school | A group of academicians, of whom Descartes was one of the foremost proponents, who maintained that all physiologic processes were the result of physical laws. Synonym: mechanistic school. (05 Mar 2000) |
| dynamic school | A group of theorists founded by Stahl, who professed the belief that all vital action is the result of an internal force independent of anything external to the body. (05 Mar 2000) |