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Component 2: The Culture of Health Care
Unit 2a: Health Professionals – the people in health care:
Introduction and Physicians
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Unit 2a: Objectives
After completing this unit, the learner will be able to:• Define terms used in health care including clinician, patient,
disease, and syndrome and in health professionals’ education and training
• Describe the education, training, certification, and licensure of physicians including – Primary care specialties
• Family medicine • Internal medicine • Pediatrics • Obstetrics • Emergency medicine and specialties as primary care
– Common medical specialties and subspecialties – Typical surgical specialties – Radiologists, pathologists, etc.
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Terminology
• Health Professional: A variety of professions who provide care to the sick and injured, this includes pre-hospital, hospital, outpatient, home and extended care.
• Patient: Anyone who seeks medical services
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Terminology
• Clinician: “an individual qualified in the clinical practice of medicine, psychiatry, or psychology as distinguished from one specializing in laboratory or research techniques or in theory” (Merriam Webster Medical Dictionary. MedlinePlus. [Retrieved on 2010 June 26]. Available from: http://www.merriam-webster.com/medlineplus/clinician
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Terminology• Disease: an impairment of a specific structure or
function of the body which produces symptoms and physical findings. Usually attributable to a specific cause such as bacterial causing pneumonia.
• Syndrome: A combination of symptoms and physical findings not easily attributable to a specific cause. An example is Carpal Tunnel Syndrome which is pain, burning and numbness in the hand.
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Terminology• Education
– Formal lecture and learning activities including simulation and patient contact
– Depending on the health profession may be on the job training, a certificate, associate degree, bachelor’s degree, Master’s Degree, on Doctoral Degree
• Training– Supervised clinical practice. Often has
increasing level of responsibility with time
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Terminology• Certification has several meanings
– Education/Training Certificate program usually one year, e.g.. Medical Assistant
– Certification by a national health profession organization usually requires completion of an accredited program and an exam, e.g. Radiologic Technologist. Physicians are considered Board Certified in a specialty or subspecialty by completion of an approved residency/fellowship and a board exam.
– Same states use certification as mechanism regulated clinical practice
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Physician
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Physician• Certification
– Completion of an approved residency or fellowship program
– Must have a valid licenses to practice– Must complete a written and/or practical exam in that
specialty or subspecialty– Maintenance of Certification
• Licensure– State– Reciprocity
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Primary Care Specialties
• Family Medicine
• Internal Medicine
• Pediatrics
• Obstetrics
• Primary Care Delivered by Default– Emergency Medicine– Specialties
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Common Internal Medicine Specialties and Subspecialties
• Cardiovascular Disease• Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism• Gastroenterology• Geriatric Medicine• Hematology and Oncology• Infectious Disease• Nephrology• Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine• RheumatologyComponent 2/Unit 2a
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Surgical Subspecialties
• Cardiovascular Surgery
• Colon and Rectal Surgery
• Neurosurgery
• Orthopedic Surgery
• Otolaryngology
• Pediatric Surgery
• Plastic Surgery
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Other Specialties
• Radiology– Diagnostic– Neuroradiology– Interventional– Pediatric– Radiation Oncology– Nuclear Radiology
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Pathology
• Blood Banking/Transfusion Medicine
• Cytopathology
• Forensic Pathology
• Laboratory Medicine
• Pediatric Pathology
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Non-Clinical Roles of Physicians
• Administration
• Teaching
• Research
• Public Health
• Health and Biomedical Informatics
• Publishing
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Summary
• Some useful health care terminology was explained
• Education, Training, Certification and Licensure of Physicians was described
• Primary care roles of Physicians was described
• We examined some of specialty, subspecialty and non-clinical roles of Physicians.
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