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Medical education

Students can choose to take a five- or six-year undergraduate medical degree Bachelor of Medicine/Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS or BMed) as a first tertiary degree directly after secondary school graduation, or first complete a bachelors degree (in general three years, usually in the medical sciences) and then apply for a four-year graduate entry Bachelor of Medicine/Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) program.


Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education

A voluntary self-regulated system and a peer-review process are used to regulate and accredit medical education providers.

History of alternative medicine

Such orthodoxy was only established in the West during the nineteenth century through processes of regulation, association, institution building and systematised medical education.


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American College for Advancement in Medicine

ACAM is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

American College of Preventive Medicine

ACPM carries out its mission through policy development and advocacy, continuing medical education, including convening the annual preventive medicine conference, support for graduate medical education, information dissemination, coalition building, representation on national advisory bodies and task forces, and sponsorship of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, a peer-reviewed journal for distributing preventive medicine science, research, and practice.

Andrea Barthwell

In 2003, Dr. Barthwell received the Betty Ford Award, given by the Association for Medical Education and Research in Substance Abuse.

Arthroscopy Association of North America

The Arthroscopy Association of North America (AANA) is an Accredited Council for Continuing Medical Education approved organization which exists to promote, encourage, support and foster through continuing medical education functions, the development and dissemination of knowledge in the discipline of arthroscopic surgery.

Babak Larian

Dr. Larian did his medical education at the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine, University of California.

Chunni Lal

Chuni Lal Bhagat, member of Bharatiya Janta Party, is an Indian politician and Minister for Local Government and Medical Education & Research in the present Punjab Government.

Clerkship

Clinical clerkship - a period of medical education in which students (medical, nursing, dental, or otherwise)– practice medicine under the supervision of a health practitioner.

David Penington

He was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia in 1988 for services to medicine and to the community, particularly in the field of medical education and health care.

Deborah S. Cummins

Deborah S. Cummins, Ph.D. is the Director of Research and Evidence Analysis at the American Dietetic Association, a voting member of the Medicare Coverage Advisory Committee, and Adjunct Faculty in the Medical Humanities Program, Department of Medical Education, University of Illinois College of Medicine in Chicago, IL.

Eleanor Flexner

Eleanor’s father, Abraham Flexner (1866-1959), was a leader in several fields including, with his brother Simon Flexner at the Rockefeller Institute, the reform of early 20th-century medical education and medical research in the United States and Canada.

Faculty of Medicine, Naresuan University

In 2004, the Cabinet approved a new plan of Naresuan University to include 3 more Ministry of Public Health hospitals as Medical Education Centers (Phrae Hospital in Phrae, Phichit Hospital in Phichit and King Taksin Memorial Hospital in Tak).

Functional medicine

The Institute for Functional Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education and achieved its accreditation from the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education on September 12, 2006 and was awarded the status of Accreditation with Commendation for six years as a provider of continuing medical education for physicians.

Geoffrey Jefferson

Manchester Royal Infirmary also honours Jefferson with the Jefferson Suite, a training area in their Medical Education Campus.

Ian K. Smith

He attended Dartmouth Medical School, but completed the last two years of his medical education and graduated from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine.

Ignacio A. Santos School of Medicine

The Ignacio A. Santos School of Medicine (in Spanish: Escuela de Medicina Ignacio A. Santos, EMIS) is the medical school division of the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM) founded in 1978 in Monterrey, Mexico, in order to provide medical education, training and to promote reliable biomedical investigation in Mexico with the support of the ITESM research infrastructure.

Integrated Liberal Arts and Medicine

The Integrated Liberal Arts and Medicine (Integrated Liberal Arts and Medicine, abbreviated as INTARMED or Intarmed and colloquially called iMed) Program is the seven-year curriculum of the University of the Philippines College of Medicine that shortens the usual period of medical education by two years.

Island Medical Program – University of Victoria

The University of British Columbia's Faculty of Medicine, in collaboration with the University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC), the University of Victoria (UVic) and the provincial government, launched its innovative, distributed medical education program in September 2004.

Jagabandhu Bose

Dr. Jagabandhu Bose studied in Dhaka College up to 1851 after which he was admitted at Calcutta Medical College to study undergraduate medical education.

James Q. Miller

His interests lead to his appointment as Assistant Dean of Students at the University of Virginia and to the state Council on Medical Education.

Karl Leonhard

His medical education (at Erlangen, Berlin and Munich) was completed in 1928 and he worked as a physician at psychiatric hospitals in Erlangen, then a year later Gabersee and from 1936 Frankfurt am Main, to which last he was called by Karl Kleist.

Krum, Texas

Dr. W.H. Kimbrough's sons, Walter and Wallace, completed their medical education at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, and joined their father in Krum.

Linda Shapiro

Linda Shapiro is a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, a Professor of Electrical Engineering, and Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education at the University of Washington.

Maharashtra Institute of Medical Education and Research

Maharashtra Institute of Medical Education and Research (MIMER) is located in Talegaon, Pune, Maharashtra, India.

Neurologist

Medical school provides a general medical education and grants students a Doctor of Medicine (MD), Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO), or Bachelor of Medicine/Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS, MBChB) upon successful completion.

Olin Foundation

Spencer T. & Ann W. Olin Foundation, from Spencer Truman Olin, a foundation for environmental groups and health and medical education and services

Peking Union Medical College

The Rockefeller Foundation was established in 1913 and in 1913-1914 the newly formed Foundation created a Commission, including Dr. Franklin C. McLean, to examine medical education in China.

Ramon Castroviejo

Born in Logroño, Spain he received his medical education at the University of Madrid.

Richard A. Barone

The Brentwood Foundation, now part of the Cleveland Clinic Health Organization, was established in 1994 as a charitable trust dedicated to the promotion and advancement of medical education, clinical research, and community initiatives that impact health and wellness in the field of osteopathic medicine.

Robert C. Kolodny

He has been a visiting professor or guest lecturer at institutions such as The Smithsonian, the National Institutes of Health, Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Neuropsychiatric Institute at UCLA, and has conducted postgraduate medical education programs for tens of thousands of physicians and other health care professionals.

Robert Langs

His undergraduate education was at the University of Pennsylvania (1945-1948) and his graduate medical education at the Chicago Medical School.

Robin Banerjee

He went on to pursue medical education at the prestigious Calcutta Medical College in Kolkata, and later at Liverpool (1934) and Edinburgh (1936).

Royal Victoria Teaching Hospital

The need for tertiary medical education was addressed in 1994, by Gambia’s President, Dr. Alh. Yahya A.J.J. Jammeh when he made health and education priorities for his government, the School of Medicine became the lead faculty in establishing the first university in Gambian history.

Southern Medical Program

The University of British Columbia's Faculty of Medicine, in collaboration with the University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC), the University of Victoria (UVic) and the provincial government, launched its innovative, distributed medical education program in September 2004.

Stanley Davidson

During the beginning of World War I in 1914, he enlisted in the Gordon Highlanders of British army, and his medical education was interrupted.

Telehealth

Distance education including continuing medical education, grand rounds, and patient education

The Little Couple

They moved from New York, after Arnold completed her pediatric residency and masters of medical education at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.

Thomas Richardson Colledge

Colledge was born in 1796, and received his medical education under Sir Astley Cooper.