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  2. Mid-level practitioner - Wikipedia

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    Mid-level practitioners, also called non-physician practitioners, advanced practice providers, or commonly mid-levels, are health care providers who assess, diagnose, and treat patients but do not have formal education or certification as a physician. The scope of a mid-level practitioner varies greatly among countries and even among individual ...

  3. Medical specialty - Wikipedia

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    Examples include those branches of medicine that deal exclusively with children , cancer , laboratory medicine , or primary care (family medicine). After completing medical school or other basic training, physicians or surgeons and other clinicians usually further their medical education in a specific specialty of medicine by completing a ...

  4. Primary care physician - Wikipedia

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    A primary care physician is usually the first medical practitioner contacted by a patient because of factors such as ease of communication, accessible location, familiarity, and increasingly issues of cost and managed care requirements. In many countries residents are registered as patients of a (local) family doctor and must contact that ...

  5. Health care provider - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, the law defines a healthcare provider as a "doctor of medicine or osteopathy who is authorized to practice medicine or surgery" by the state, or anyone else designated by the United States Secretary of Labor as being able to provide health care services. [3] In general, this is seen to include:

  6. List of abbreviations for medical organisations and personnel

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    National accrediting agency for clinical laboratory science: NAPCRG: North American Primary Care Research Group: NCA: National credentialing agency for laboratory personnel: NCI: National Cancer Institute NCTMB: Nationally certified in therapeutic massage and bodywork NEJM: New England Journal of Medicine: NHC: Nephrology Hypertension Clinic, P ...

  7. Comparison of MD and DO in the United States - Wikipedia

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    IMG physicians are more likely to enter primary care specialties than US MD physicians. [16] As of 2007, IMG physicians represented 36% of internal medicine physicians, 29% of anesthesiologists, 31.4% of psychiatrists, 28% of pediatricians, 17.8% of family physicians, 17.8% of OB/GYNs, 18.8% of radiologists and 20% of general surgeons. [16]

  8. Nurse practitioner - Wikipedia

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    The present-day concept of advanced practice nursing as a primary care provider was created in the mid-1960s, spurred on by a national shortage of physicians. [7] The first formal graduate certificate program for NPs was created by Henry Silver, a physician, and Loretta Ford, a nurse, in 1965. [7]

  9. Allied health professions - Wikipedia

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    In providing care to patients with certain illnesses, AHPs may work in the public or private sector, in hospitals or in other types of facilities, and often in clinical collaboration with other providers having complementary scopes of practice. Allied health professions are usually of smaller size proportional to physicians and nurses.