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List of medical abbreviations: Overview; List of medical abbreviations: Latin abbreviations; List of abbreviations for medical organisations and personnel; List of abbreviations used in medical prescriptions; List of optometric abbreviations
Primary care trust (UK) PGNZ: Pharmaceutical Guild of New Zealand PHARM: Pharmaceutical Health and Rational Use of Medicines (Australia) Pharm.D: Doctor of Pharmacy PMS: Personal Medical Services alternative contract for UK GPs POG: Pediatric Oncology Group PRHO: Pre-registration house officer (UK) PSNZ: Pharmaceutical Society of New Zealand
Pronunciation follows convention outside the medical field, in which acronyms are generally pronounced as if they were a word (JAMA, SIDS), initialisms are generally pronounced as individual letters (DNA, SSRI), and abbreviations generally use the expansion (soln. = "solution", sup. = "superior").
At present, the examination cost is £1495 from start to finish if all parts are taken in the UK and £2390 if are taken overseas [3] [4] [5] - assuming each examination is passed in a single attempt without attending any courses. Candidates may elect to participate in any of a number of training courses, online revision websites or use mobile ...
The first version was developed in the early 1980s by Dr James Read, a Loughborough general medical practitioner. [2] The scheme was structured similarly to ICD-9: . each code was composed of four consecutive characters: first character 0-9, A-Z (excepting I and O), remaining three characters 0-9, A-Z/a-z (excepting i,I,o and O) plus up to three trailing period '.' characters
statement of medical necessity SMS: senior medical student SMT: spinal manipulative therapy: SMV: superior mesenteric vein: SN: student nurse skilled nursing SNB: sentinel node biopsy (ductal carcinoma) SNF: skilled nursing facility: SNHL: sensorineural hearing loss: SNP: sodium nitroprusside single nucleotide polymorphism: SNRI: serotonin ...
nerve conduction test, aka nerve conduction study: NCV: nerve conduction velocity (see nerve conduction study) ND (examination) not done NDI: nephrogenic diabetes insipidus NDSC: National Decision Support Company NE: norepinephrine: Ne: neutrophil granulocytes: NEAD: Non-epileptic attack disorder: NEAP: Net Endogenous Acid Production NEC: not ...
Applicants are required to hold a medical qualification approved by the GMC for the purposes of registration and must have completed the UK Foundation Program or equivalent. Consists of two written papers (single best answer multiple choice) of 90 questions each, lasting two hours each, with one hour break between papers. [2] MRCEM OSCE