Medical History
In 1847, most of the state medical societies were affiliated with the acronym AMA which stands for...
American Medical Association
This physician places special emphasis on the body's musculoskeletal system...
Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO)
What is general practice called now?
Family Medicine
The introduction of this program has created a new era in how physicians practice medicine.
HIT
This country currently ranks 15th in overall performance and number 1 in expenditures
United States
This state became the first to restrict medical licenses to graduates of medical schools...
Georgia
A physician must go through residency specialty training accredited by the ACGME for....
3-7 years
Who did the ACA fund to recruit primary care providers to work in underserved areas and provided more than $200 million in grants for community-based “teaching health centers” to establish more primary care residency programs?
National Health Service Corps
Medical schools have introduced HIT into their...
Coursework and biomedical informatics
This foundation produced a report in 2014 naming the United States as under-performed in comparison to the other 11 countries named in the report.
Common Wealth Fund
Training under a physician remained the most common method of physician education until what year?
1700s
This indicates that the individual physician has demonstrated the necessary knowledge and skills to practice medicine safely and effectively.
Certified/Certification
Who approved hospitals for residency specialty training programs?
American Medical Association council on Medical Education
Approximately, this many of the world's biomedical lectures are indexed by the National Library of Medicine
5,500
What parts of the medical infrastructure requires transformation to improve the quality of USA healthcare system?
* The curricula
*quality improvement
*clinical informatics
This organization was enlisted by the AMA to investigate and rate medical schools on their entrance requirements, the size of their training facilities, endowment fees, and laboratory quality.
Carnegie Foundation
To keep their certification(s) active, most physicians participate in the ABMS program for....
Maintenance of Certification (MOC)
What is the ratio of specialists in primary care physicians in the early 1990s?
60:40
(True or False): Physicians and patients are finding it difficult to cope with the high volume of information available on the internet by various sources.
True
This country was dead last in performance among the 11 countries compared in the common wealth fund report
United States
These types of medical schools gained significant influence over the direction of medical education...
university-affiliated medical schools
The year the AMA published the guidelines for approved residencies that set educational accreditation standards for residencies
1928
What are the three things that a specialist needs before becoming a certified physician?
The physician must graduate from a medical school, serve in a residency program in an approved setting, and pass a qualifying specialty examination.
In 2009, the NIH (National Institutes of Health) Public Access Policy was mandated by
Congress
The goal of the HITECH act is to....
advance the use of HIT