Vocab
What is Globalization?
Six years of post-secondary education is required to complete this degree.
What is a PharmD degree?
The year Medicare and Medicaid was created.
Group of healthcare professionals that constitutes approximately 60% of the U.S. Healthcare workforce.
The five core disciplines of Public Health education.
Major changes through government policy to expand health insurance to the uninsured.
What is Healthcare Reform?
May specialize in several areas, such as clinical, counseling, developmental, educational, engineering, personnel, experimental, industrial, psychometric, rehabilitation, school, and social domains.
What are Psychologists?
In 1939, the California Medical Association created the first plan of this kind, which was designed to pay physician's fees.
What is the Blue Shield Plan?
In the United States, 38% of these Healthcare professionals are generalists and 62% are specialists.
The council that is responsible for accrediting Social Work programs.
What is the Council on Social Work Education?
A person who has received a certificate or associate's, bachelor's, or master's degree; doctoral-level training; or post-baccalaureate training in a healthcare-related science and has the responsibility for the delivery of health or related services.
What is an Allied Health Professional?
Involved in inpatient medicine and their roles parallel those of primary care physicians in an outpatient setting, in that they manage the care of hospitalized patients.
The year the American Medical Association (AMA) was founded.
What is the year 1847?
Percentage of doctors over the age of 55, who will retire in the next ten years.
What is 40%?
Members of a healthcare team who work in a dependent manner with a supervising physician.
What are physician assistants (PAs)?
A graduate medical education in a specialty that takes the form of paid on-the-job training, usually in a hosptial.
What is Residency?
Responsible for the operational, clinical, and financial outcomes of the organization.
The University that set the standards for the model of medical education around the United States.
What is Johns Hopkins University?
The percentage of the United States population that lived in urban areas in 1840.
What is 11%?
Receive less than 2 years of post-secondary education and are trained to perform procedures.
Who are technicians and assistants?
Views medical treatment as an active intervention to produce a counteracting reaction in an attempt to neutralize the effects of disease.
What is Allopathic Medicine?
Clinical professionals who practice in many areas in which physicians practice but who do not possess an MD or a DO degree.
What are Nonphysician Practitioners (NPPs)?
In 2010, an era of healthcare reform as inaugurated in the United States with the passage of this act.
What is the Affordable Care Act?
13.6% of the nation's total labor force is employed by this industry.
What is the Healthcare Industry?
The possession of a bachelor's or master's degree and passing a certification examination administered by the National Board of Certification in Occupational Therapy.
What are the minimum requirements for entering the Occupational Therapy field?