medical knowledge
What doctors study
Medical knowledge is the body of information about health, disease, anatomy, treatment, and the functioning of living organisms.
It encompasses what physicians learn in training and what accumulates through research and clinical experience.
The term often appears in discussions of its limits: Medical knowledge doubles every few years, That was beyond the medical knowledge of the time.
Someone with medical knowledge understands how bodies work and what can go wrong with them.
- diseaseDisorder impairing normal function
- diagnosisIdentification of illness
- second opinionAdditional expert consultation
- MRIMagnetic body imaging
- CT scanTomographic diagnostic imaging
informed consent · drug · beneficence · do no harm · treatment · anatomy · epidemiology · surgical techniques · confidentiality · clinical trial · peer review · disease prevention · X-ray · vaccination program · autonomy · imaging · lab results · vital signs
- expertise areasmath skills, language skills, legal expertise, teaching skills, writing skills
- expertiseexpertise, skill, mastery, proficiency, competence
- bioethicsbioethics, genetic engineering, beneficence, non-maleficence, physician-assisted death
- clinical skillsauscultation, palpation, percussion, physical exam, patient assessment
medical knowledgequackery
Fraudulent medical practice
pseudoscience · folk remedies · old wives' tales · superstition · snake oil