| RMED | rural medical education [program] |
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| RPGMEC | Regional Postgraduate Medical Education Committee |
| UGME | undergraduate medical education |
| UME | undergraduate medical education |
| AMA | against medical advice; alkaline membrane assay; American Management Association; American Medical A... |
| On-line Medical Dictionary | OMD is a searchable dictionary created by Dr Graham Dark (<dark@cancerweb.org.uk>) and contains terms relating to biochemistry, cell biology, chemistry, medicine, molecular biology, physics, plant biology, radiobiology, science and technology. It includes: acronyms, jargon, theory, conventions, standards, institutions, projects, eponyms, history, in fact anything to do with medicine or science. This dictionary is Copyright Academic Medical Publishing & The CancerWEB Project 1997-2002. This edition is distributed by CancerWEB under licence from Academic Medical Publishing. Permission is granted for individuals to use definitions from this dictionary or translations into another language, provided that no more than twenty are used in any one work. If more than twenty entries are to be used specific permission must be sought prior to usage and every such copy or derived work must carry the above copyright notice and be distributed under terms identical to these. If you would like to link to OMD, please refer to the separate page on Creating a link to the On-line Medical Dictionary The dictionary has been growing since early 1997 and now contains over 160,000 definitions totalling 50 megabytes. Entries are cross-referenced to each other and to related resources elsewhere on the net. Cross-references to other entries look like this. Note that some cross-references do not actually lead anywhere yet, but if you find one that leads to something inappropriate, please let us know. Dates after entries indicate when that entry was created, updated or first date-stamped. They do not imply that it was up-to-date at that time. You can search the latest version of the dictionary by WWW: http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/omd/index.html. If you find an entry that is wrong or inadequate please let us know. OMD <omd@cancerweb.org.uk> (05 May 2002) |
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| technology, medical | The application of scientific knowledge or technology to the field of medicine. It includes a variety of medical diagnostic and clinical laboratory procedures. Medical technology is also considered a specialty. (12 Dec 1998) |
| technology, medical laboratory | The application of scientific knowledge or technology in medical laboratories as facilities equipped to carry out investigative procedures in the diagnosis and therapy of disease. It includes methods, techniques, and instrumentation used in medical laboratories. (12 Dec 1998) |
| tertiary medical care | Specialised consultative care, usually on referral from primary or secondary medical care personnel, by specialists working in a centre that has personnel and facilities for special investigation and treatment. (05 Mar 2000) |
| economics, medical | Economic aspects of the field of medicine, the medical profession, and health care. It includes the economic and financial impact of disease in general on the patient, the physician, society, or government. (12 Dec 1998) |
| topography, medical | The systematic surveying, mapping, charting, and description of specific geographical sites, with reference to the physical features that were presumed to influence health and disease. Often associated with hippocrates, the process became a significant part of public health investigation and epidemiological methodology, particularly between the 17th and 19th centuries. Medical topography should be differentiated from epidemiology in that the former emphasizes geography whereas the latter emphasizes disease outbreaks. (dr. James h. Cassedy, nlm history of medicine division) (12 Dec 1998) |
| emergency medical service communication systems | The use of communication systems, such as telecommunication, to transmit emergency information to appropriate providers of health services. (12 Dec 1998) |
| emergency medical services | Services specifically designed, staffed, and equipped for the emergency care of patients. (12 Dec 1998) |
| emergency medical technicians | Paramedical personnel trained to provide basic emergency care and life support under the supervision of physicians and/or nurses. These services may be carried out at the site of the emergency, in the ambulance, or in a health care institution. (12 Dec 1998) |
| ethics, medical | The principles of proper professional conduct concerning the rights and duties of the physician himself, his patients, and his fellow practitioners, as well as his actions in the care of patients and in relations with their families. (12 Dec 1998) |
| journalism, medical | The collection, writing, and editing of material of current interest for presentation through the mass media, including newspapers, magazines, radio, or television, usually for a public audience such as health care consumers. (12 Dec 1998) |
| faculty, medical | The teaching staff and members of the administrative staff having academic rank in a medical school. (12 Dec 1998) |
| unified medical language system | A research and development program initiated by the national library of medicine to build an intelligent automated system that can understand biomedical concepts, words, and expressions and their interrelationships, and use this understanding to help users retrieve and organise information from a variety of machine-readable sources. The goal of the umls is to compensate for differences in the terminology of the disparate systems and for variations in user modes of expression. The umls project has produced four knowledge sources meant to be used by user interface programs. These are the metathesaurus, the semantic network, the information sources map, and the specialist lexicon. (12 Dec 1998) |
| fees, medical | Amounts charged to the patient as payer for medical services. (12 Dec 1998) |
| foreign medical graduates | Physicians who hold degrees from medical schools in countries other than the ones in which they practice. (12 Dec 1998) |