health sciences
Biology meets treatment
Health sciences is a broad academic and professional field encompassing disciplines concerned with human health and disease.
It includes medicine, nursing, public health, pharmacy, dentistry, nutrition, and related areas.
The term often appears in university contexts: the College of Health Sciences, a degree in health sciences.
Someone studying health sciences may be preparing for clinical work or health policy and administration.
- nursingMedical caretaking profession
- bedside mannerPhysician's interpersonal approach
- physiologyScience of bodily functions
- human anatomyStudy of body structure
- med schoolPhysician training institution
clinical rotation · life expectancy · pediatrics · vital signs · behavioral science · biostatistics · epidemiology · genetics · immunology · psychology · pharmacology · drug interaction · pathology · medical ethics · dentistry · radiology · neurology · clinical trials
- academic fieldsmathematics, biology, chemistry, physics, history
- disciplinesbiology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, psychology
- college coursesbiology, calculus, chemistry, physics, quantum physics
- school programsAP, honors, scholarship, honors program, AP classes
- fieldsbiology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, engineering
- SudburySudbury, Sudbury Basin, Vale, Lively, Dowling
health scienceshumanities
Study of culture
liberal arts · fine arts · philosophy · literature · theoretical physics
health, medicine, sciences, neuroscience, biomedicine, genomics, kinesiology, hematology, dietetics