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Clinfowiki is devoted to topics in biomedical informatics and is maintained by the Department of Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology at Oregon Health and Science University. [1] Dean F. Sittig launched the site on 27 June 2005, and as of 12 January 2017, Vishnu Mohan was its editor. [2]
A physician, medical practitioner (British English), medical doctor, or simply doctor is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through the study, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of disease, injury, and other physical and mental impairments.
Elmina M. Roys Gavitt (1828–1898) - American physician; medical journal founder, editor-in-chief; Atul Gawande - surgeon and New Yorker medical writer; William Gilbert - British author; father of W. S. Gilbert; Oliver Goldsmith - British author; Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (1809–1894) - American essayist; Richard Hooker - author of M*A*S*H
The entry to medical school is competitive and only students with the highest rank are accepted into medical program. The primary medical degree is completed in 7–7.5 years. On the final years (last 1–2 years) medical students need to do a research on a medical topic and provide thesis as part of their trainings.
The site was reported to have received over 17.1 million average monthly unique visitors in Q1 2007 [6] and is the leading health portal in the United States. [7] The site receives information from accredited individuals [citation needed] and is reviewed by a medical review board consisting of four physicians to ensure accuracy.
To be licensed, APs must have graduated from medical school and passed the USMLE Step 1 and USMLE Step 2 Clinical Knowledge exams. [2] The expansion of the AP profession aims to provide primary care in underserved areas. [2] [3] The position also provides a career pathway for the increasing number of unmatched physician graduates. [4]
Medicine is the science [1] and practice [2] of caring for patients, managing the diagnosis, prognosis, prevention, treatment, palliation of their injury or disease, and promoting their health. Medicine encompasses a variety of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness .