| HPSA | health professional shortage area |
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| CME | cervical mediastinal exploration; continuing medical education; Council on Medical Education; crude ... |
| DNE | Director of Nursing Education; Doctor of Nursing Education |
| USPHS | United States Public Health Service |
| AAPHD | American Association of Public Health Dentists |
| vocational education | Education for specific trades or occupations. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| physical education and training | Instructional programs in the care and development of the body, often in schools. The concept does not include prescribed exercises, which is exercise therapy. (12 Dec 1998) |
| 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. (12 Dec 1998) |
| sex education | Education which increases the knowledge of the functional, structural, and behavioural aspects of human reproduction. (12 Dec 1998) |
| nursing education research | Investigations into the problems of integrating research findings into nursing curricula, developing problem solving skills, finding approaches to clinical teaching, determining the level of practice by graduates from different basic preparations, etc. (12 Dec 1998) |
| education | The act or process of educating; the result of educating, as determined by the knowledge skill, or discipline of character, acquired; also, the act or process of training by a prescribed or customary course of study or discipline; as, an education for the bar or the pulpit; he has finished his education. "To prepare us for complete living is the function which education has to discharge." (H. Spenser) Synonym: Education, Instruction, Teaching, Training, Breeding. Education, properly a drawing forth, implies not so much the communication of knowledge as the discipline of the intellect, the establishment of the principles, and the regulation of the heart. Instruction is that part of education which furnishes the mind with knowledge. Teaching is the same, being simply more familiar. It is also applied to practice; as, teaching to speak a language; teaching a dog to do tricks. Training is a department of education in which the chief element is exercise or practice for the purpose of imparting facility in any physical or mental operation. Breeding commonly relates to the manners and outward conduct. Origin: L. Educatio; cf. F. Education. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| education, continuing | Educational programs designed to inform individuals of recent advances in their particular field of interest. They do not lead to any formal advanced standing. (12 Dec 1998) |
| education, dental | Use for articles concerning dental education in general. (12 Dec 1998) |
| education, dental, continuing | Educational programs designed to inform dentists of recent advances in their fields. (12 Dec 1998) |
| education, dental, graduate | Educational programs for dental graduates entering a specialty. They include formal specialty training as well as academic work in the clinical and basic dental sciences, and may lead to board certification or an advanced dental degree. (12 Dec 1998) |
| education department, hospital | Hospital department responsible for administering educational and training activities pertaining to health for patients and staff. (12 Dec 1998) |
| education, graduate | Studies beyond the bachelor's degree at an institution having graduate programs for the purpose of preparing for entrance into a specific field, and obtaining a higher degree. (12 Dec 1998) |
| education, medical | Use for general articles concerning medical education. (12 Dec 1998) |
| education, medical, continuing | Educational programs designed to inform physicians of recent advances in their field. (12 Dec 1998) |
| education, medical, graduate | Educational programs for medical graduates entering a specialty. They include formal specialty training as well as academic work in the clinical and basic medical sciences, and may lead to board certification or an advanced medical degree. (12 Dec 1998) |