professional school
Career-focused graduate program
A professional school is a graduate institution that trains students for specific licensed professions—law school, medical school, business school, dental school, veterinary school.
Distinguished from academic graduate programs that prepare students for research or teaching, professional schools emphasize practical training and credentialing: She's applying to professional schools this fall.
Supervised medical trainee placements
- residencyState of dwelling somewhere
- internshipSupervised professional trial period
- practicumSupervised practical training
- fieldworkResearch conducted on location
clerkship · externship · simulation · apprenticeship · hands-on · preceptor · capstone · moot court
Binding principle or regulation
- medicineCurative substance or practice
- businessCommercial activity or occupation
- dentistryOral healthcare profession
- pharmacyMedicinal dispensary
veterinary · nursing · engineering · architecture · education · public health · social work · optometry
Official permission to practice
- certificationAttestation of qualification
- credentialingVerifying professional qualifications
- ABALawyers' professional body
- complianceAdhering to requirements
standards · evaluation · peer review · site visit · approval · recognition · oversight · quality assurance
Legal school admission exam
- MCATAdmission exam for physicians-in-training
- GMATBusiness school entrance exam
- GREGraduate school entrance exam
- prerequisiteRequired prior condition
application · letters of recommendation · interview · transcript · GPA · admissions committee · waitlist · matriculation
clinical rotations
Supervised medical trainee placements
- residencyState of dwelling somewhere
- internshipSupervised professional trial period
- practicumSupervised practical training
fieldwork · clerkship · externship · simulation · apprenticeship · hands-on · preceptor · capstone · moot court
law
Binding principle or regulation
- medicineCurative substance or practice
- businessCommercial activity or occupation
- dentistryOral healthcare profession
pharmacy · veterinary · nursing · engineering · architecture · education · public health · social work · optometry · physical therapy
licensure
Official permission to practice
- certificationAttestation of qualification
- credentialingVerifying professional qualifications
- ABALawyers' professional body
compliance · standards · evaluation · peer review · site visit · approval · recognition · oversight · quality assurance
LSAT
Legal school admission exam
- MCATAdmission exam for physicians-in-training
- GMATBusiness school entrance exam
- GREGraduate school entrance exam
prerequisite · application · letters of recommendation · interview · transcript · GPA · admissions committee · waitlist · matriculation · enrollment
- adult educationadult education, adult learning, GED prep, adult classes, adult education center
- graduate schoolsPhD program, masters program, MBA program, MD program, doctoral program
- educationeducation, teachers, students, learning, teaching
- schoolscollege, academy, university, preschool, kindergarten
- education levelskindergarten, college, university, preschool, first grade
professional schoolliberal arts college
School prioritizing broad education
liberal arts education · general education · arts and sciences · research university · classical education
professional schoolself-taught
Educated without instructors
school of hard knocks · autodidacticism · self-education · autodidact · on-the-job training
professional, school, profession, profess, professed, professing, professor, professorial, professionally