Socy 3052 exam questions & answers 2023/2024
Early practicing physicians and their training - ANSWER-•854,698 medical doctors (MDs) practicing medicine in 2013, U.S.
•Before American Revolution
-Doctors often ships' surgeons, apothecaries, clergy
•Some gained medical knowledge in Europe...
Socy 3052 exam questions & answers
2023/2024
Early practicing physicians and their training - ANSWER-•854,698 medical doctors (MDs) practicing
medicine in 2013, U.S.
•Before American Revolution
-Doctors often ships' surgeons, apothecaries, clergy
•Some gained medical knowledge in Europe
•University of Edinburgh in Scotland provided best training
•College of Philadelphia, 1765
-1stmedical school in America
•Rapid increase in medical schools after 1800
-Quality of schools and of doctors low until 1850
Early ineffective techniques - ANSWER-Before 1850
•Many techniques ineffective, painful, dangerous, or fatal
Bloodletting -could weaken condition
Purgatives -caused vomiting
Cholera treatments -ineffective
•Some more recent treatments questionable
Louis Pasteur - ANSWER-Germ theory -Louis Pasteur, France, mid-1800s
Professional power - ANSWER-
Features of professionalism (Goode) - ANSWER-• Two basic characteristics
-Prolonged and specialized training
-Service orientation
•Consolidate professional power with
, -Public accepts claims of competence
-Profession controls membership rather than outside authorities
American Medical Association (AMA) - ANSWER-•AMA Founded in 1847 in Philadelphia
- 15% of qualified physicians were members in 2011
• 79% of qualified doctors were members in 1963
-nonmembers dont need benefits
• Armed forces, researchers, universities, government
-Central interest as proactive trade association, or in public welfare
•Special societies are growing
-American college of surgeons and physicians
AMA guiding principles - ANSWER-•AMA Guiding Principles
-Physician is independent practitioner
Free of control of public & Fee for service medical practice
Flexner Report - ANSWER-•Only three medical schools fully approved
-Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Western Reserve
•Recommended schools should have
-Full time faculty
-Lab and hospital facilities available to students
•Med students should receive education in
-Natural sciences
•Resulted in closure of
-Women's medical schools
-6 of 8 African American medical schools
Carnegie foundation
Physician socialization - ANSWER-•145 accredited U.S. medical schools accepted
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