Vocabulary
In this phase of medical delivery, this era lasted from the middle of the 18th century until the latter of the 19th century.
What is the Preindustrial Era?
These countries were far more advanced in medical education and practice in the late 1800’s.
Who is Great Britain, France, and Germany?
This organization, founded in 1847, played a role in galvanizing the medical profession and in protecting the interest of physicians.
What is the American Medical Association (AMA)?
This graduate medical education is required for a specific specialty that takes the form of paid on-the-job training, and usually takes place at a hospital that can last 2 to 6 years.
What is a Residency?
This profession specializes in eye care that includes examinations, diagnosis and vision correction.
What is an Optometrist?
This institution was built by the state government for patients with untreatable, chronic mental illness.
What is the Asylum?
This individual, who was referred to as the father of American Psychiatry, believed that mental illness was caused by irritation of the blood vessels in the brain.
Who is Dr. Benjamin Rush?
This individual discovered the antibacterial properties of penicillin in 1929.
Who is Alexander Fleming?
This area of study emphasizes the musculoskeletal system and is practiced by DO’s.
What is Osteopathic Medicine?
A profession that focuses on diseases or deformities of the feet by performing surgical operations, prescribing medications and corrective devices, and administering physiotherapy.
What is a Podiatrist?
This specialty specializes in the care of hospitalized patients.
What is a Hospitalist?
These individuals practice healing arts by selling herbal prescriptions, nostrums, elixirs, and cathartics.
Who are Tradesmen?
This university took the lead in making a graduate training program, instead of a high school diploma, an entrance requirement for medical education.
Who is Johns Hopkins University?
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?
This profession can specialize in several areas such as clinical, counseling, psychometric, rehabilitation and more.
What is a Psychologist?
This profession refers to nurses who have advanced education and clinical experience. This consists of 4 areas of specializations.
What is an Advanced-Practice Nurse (APN)?
This institution was operated by the local government to isolate people who have contracted a contagious disease.
What is a Pesthouse?
This university reformed medical education by extending the academic year from 4 to 9 months to 2 to 3 years.
Who is Harvard University?
Physicians that are trained in family medicine/general practice, general internal medicine, and general pediatrics.
What are Primary Care Physicians or Generalists?
This area is based on the belief that the body is a self-healing organism, which rids professionals of prescribing drugs or performing surgery.
What is a Chiropractor?
This clinic was designed to provide free care to individuals who could not afford healthcare along with dispensing drugs to ambulatory patients.
What are Dispensaries?
This symbol was, and still today, used as a reminder that barbers were surgeons at one point.
What are the Red-and-White Striped Poles?
Through the American Medical Association (AMA), this coordinated the activities of physicians to protect their interests.
What is Organized Medicine?
Physicians that focus their area of practice on a specific disease or organ system.
What is a Specialist?
Requires a doctor of philosophy (PhD).
What is a Psychologist?