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Council on medical education - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ -
established by AMA
-addresses the needed educational improvement and standards
JAMA - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ published medical school state
licensing failure statistics and group schools by failure rates, demanding
poor schools to improve or resign the association
Occupations are regulated by - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ state
licensure, certification, registration
Downsides of regulation - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ -restrictions
limit health care organizations use of personnel and abilities to innovate
in patient care
-restrictions influences professional education programs to tailor
curricula to testing
Payers or employers insist on - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔
certification
,Nursing post WWI - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ emphasized hospital
care and training
Nurse practitioners - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ rns with advanced
education, clinical experience; origins in 60s due to MD shortage
Pediatric medicine - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ diagnosis, treats
diseases, injuries of lower leg and foot
Chiropractors - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Treat the whole body
without drugs or surgery; believe spinal misalignment and nerve
irritation interferes with normal body functions
PT'S - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ treat injuries, disabilities, improve
function; collaborative role
Occupational therapist - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ assist recovery
from injuries to recover living skills, work abilities, plan educational,
vocational, recreational activities.
Factors that influence demand for health personnel - ACCURATE
ANSWERS✔✔ physician supply, technologic advances, home care
increases, corporatization of health care
, Accreditation - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ process by which an
educational program is evaluated and then recognized as having met
certain predetermined standards of education
Alternative medicine - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ a group of medical
treatments, practices, and products that are used instead of conventional
Western medicine
Behavior scientist - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ a scholar who applies
the scientific method to describe, predict, and explain recurring forms of
human behavior
Complementary medicine - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ health care
practices and products used together with conventional medicine
Health information administrator - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔
Manages health information and systems used to collect, store, process,
retrieve, analyze, disseminate, and communicate health information.
International medical graduates - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔
physicians trained in medical schools outside the US who fill the annual
shortfall in US medical school graduates required to staff hospitals
Integrative medicine - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ simultaneous use of
both traditional and alternative medicine