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  2. Kent and Medway Medical School - Wikipedia

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    Website. kmms .ac .uk. Kent and Medway Medical School ( KMMS) is a medical school based in Canterbury, Kent. [1] It was created as a partnership between the University of Kent and Canterbury Christ Church University and offers around 100 places per year. Brighton and Sussex Medical School (BSMS) acts as the contingency school. [2]

  3. Medical education in the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    Medical education in Philippines is principally offered and developed by accredited and government recognized medical schools in the country. Medical schools in the Philippines are professional schools offering the Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) degree. The M.D. is a four-year and six months professional degree program which qualifies the degree ...

  4. Stedman's Medical Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    Stedman's Medical Dictionary is a medical dictionary developed for medical students, physicians, researchers, and medical language specialists. Entries include medical terms, abbreviations, acronyms, measurements, and more. Pronunciation and word etymology (showing mostly Latin and Greek prefixes and roots) are provided with most definitions.

  5. Nursing - Wikipedia

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    Nursing is a health care profession that "integrates the art and science of caring and focuses on the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and human functioning; prevention of illness and injury; facilitation of healing; and alleviation of suffering through compassionate presence". [1] Nurses practice in many specialties with ...

  6. Medical slang - Wikipedia

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    Medical slang is the use of acronyms and informal terminology to describe patients, other healthcare personnel and medical concepts. Some terms are pejorative. In English, medical slang has entered popular culture via television hospital and forensic science dramas such as ER, House M.D., NCIS, Scrubs, and Grey's Anatomy, and through fiction, in books such as The House of God by Samuel Shem ...

  7. Medical dictionary - Wikipedia

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    A medical dictionary is a lexicon for words used in medicine. The four major medical dictionaries in the United States are Mosby's Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing & Health Professions, Stedman's, Taber's, and Dorland's. Other significant medical dictionaries are distributed by Elsevier. Dictionaries often have multiple versions, with content ...

  8. Medical credentials - Wikipedia

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    Medical Researchers. Philosophiae Doctor (Ph.D.) Dr. mr. (Doctor of Medical Research) Allied Health Professionals. Respiratory practitioner (aka "respiratory therapist" or "respiratory care practitioner") (RRT, CRT) Associate of Science in Respiratory Therapy (ASRT) Bachelor of Science in Respiratory Therapy (BSRT)

  9. Doctor of Philosophy - Wikipedia

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    A Doctor of Philosophy ( PhD, Ph.D., or DPhil; Latin: philosophiae doctor or doctor philosophiae) is a terminal degree that usually denotes the highest level of academic achievement in a given discipline and is awarded following a course of graduate study and original research. The name of the degree is most often abbreviated PhD (or, at times ...