Before the White Coat
In 1965, this university launched the first PA program, giving Blue Devils a particular reason to know their healthcare history.
What is Duke University?
President Lyndon Johnson signed legislation establishing these two major health coverage programs in 1965.
What are Medicare and Medicaid?
Instead of treating one person at a time, this dental specialty focuses on preventing oral disease across communities.
What is dental public health?
The first pharmacy college in North America was founded in 1821 in this city, also famous for the Liberty Bell.
What is Philadelphia?
Whether studying to become a PA, dentist, or veterinarian, students take this subject to learn how drugs act in the body.
What is pharmacology?
The students selected for the first PA class at the first PA school had served as hospital corpsmen in this military branch.
What is the U.S. Navy?
This former president received the first Medicare card at the law’s signing ceremony.
Who is Harry Truman?
This dental specialty focuses on the pulp inside teeth and is closely associated with root canal treatment.
What is endodontics?
Pharmacists in this specialty prepare radioactive medications used for imaging and treatment.
What is nuclear pharmacy?
A typical Doctor of Veterinary Medicine program takes this many years, after completing undergraduate prerequisites.
What is four years?
Loretta Ford and Henry Silver established the first nurse practitioner program in 1965 at this university.
What is the University of Colorado?
The world’s first dental school opened in 1840 in this Maryland city.
What is Baltimore?
This dental specialty restores missing teeth and deficient oral tissues using substitutes such as dentures and other prostheses.
What is prosthodontics?
In treating OCD, therapists may use ERP, which involves confronting triggers while resisting compulsions. These three words spell out ERP.
What is exposure and response prevention?
Most professional programs awarding this physical therapy degree take about three years, typically after a bachelor’s degree.
What is a Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT)?
Before modern physical therapists, these “aides” helped rehabilitate wounded soldiers during World War I.
Who were reconstruction aides?
The first nurse practitioner program focused on caring for this age group.
What are children (pediatrics)
An OT assessing someone’s ability to safely return behind the wheel is working in this specialized area.
What is driving rehabilitation?
Developed by psychologist Marsha Linehan, this therapy abbreviated DBT teaches skills including mindfulness, distress tolerance, and emotion regulation.
What is dialectical behavior therapy?
Most PA programs take approximately this many months of continuous study?
What is 27 months?
This movement, which valued handcraftsmanship over industrial mass production, helped shape early occupational therapy.
What is the Arts and Crafts Movement?
This physical therapy pioneer became the first president of the American Women’s Physical Therapeutic Association, the organization that became APTA.
Who is Mary McMillan?
A PT who helps patients manage dizziness and balance problems may practice this type of rehabilitation, named for the inner ear’s balance system.
What is vestibular rehabilitation?
A veterinarian specializing in theriogenology focuses on this biological process. Not dinosaurs, despite the name!
What is reproduction?
Your dentist has a DMD, while your friend’s has a DDS. Which degree requires a higher level of dental education?
Neither, they are the same!