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Medical College of Wisconsin
Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW), private medical school in Milwaukee founded 1893, renamed from Marquette University School of Medicine in 1970; MD program of 204 students per class, Froedtert Hospital affiliation, Green Bay and Central Wisconsin campuses.
Medical Council of India
Medical Council of India (MCI), India's statutory regulator of medical education and practice, established 1934, reconstituted under the 1956 Act, dissolved 25 September 2020 and replaced by the National Medical Commission.
Medical Day Care
Medical day care (partial hospitalization) is daytime institutional health care where patients return home at night. Covers origins in 1933 Moscow and Cameron's 1946 Montreal day hospital, plus trial evidence in geriatric, psychiatric, cancer, and antenatal care.
Medical degree
Medical degree: MD or MBBS university qualification certifying physician training. Key facts: first US school 1765, Flexner report 1910 closed 89 of 155 schools, USMLE licensure, UK GMC oversight.
Medical device
A medical device is an instrument, machine, implant, or software intended for a medical purpose, such as diagnosing or treating disease, without acting chemically like a drug.
Medical diagnosis
Medical diagnosis: identifying a disease, condition, or injury from symptoms, history, exam, and tests. Uses differential diagnosis; diagnostic errors affect about 5% of U.S. outpatient visits per NASEM 2015.
Medical doctor
Medical doctor (physician): a licensed practitioner who diagnoses and treats disease and injury. Covers M.D./D.O. degrees, training, specialties, pay, workforce density, shortages, and professionalization history.
Medical drama
Medical drama: a TV genre set in hospitals, clinics, or ambulances, running from City Hospital (1951) and Dr. Kildare through ER, Grey's Anatomy, and The Pitt, known for hero-doctors, soap elements, and measurable effects on public expectations of medicine.
Medical education
Medical education: training of physicians across undergraduate, postgraduate, and continuing stages, organized around competency-based curricula, the WHO 2022 UHC framework, and growing AI integration.
Medical error
Medical error: preventable mistakes in health care, from diagnostic and medication errors to wrong-site surgery. Central to patient safety since the 1999 IOM report To Err Is Human, which estimated 44,000–98,000 US hospital deaths yearly.
Medical ethics
Medical ethics: the moral principles governing medical practice, from the Hippocratic school (c. 460–380 BCE) and Percival's 1803 coining of the term to modern principlism, the WMA codes, and post-1960s bioethics.
Medical examiner
Medical examiner: appointed physician, usually a forensic pathologist, who investigates sudden and violent deaths, performs autopsies, and certifies cause and manner of death, unlike the elected, often non-physician coroner.
Medical Examiner Dr. Qin (法医秦明)
Medical Examiner Dr. Qin (法医秦明) is a Chinese crime franchise by real forensic pathologist Qin Ming of Anhui's Public Security Department, from the 2012 novel Corpse Whisperer to the 2016 Zhang Ruoyun Sohu web drama with 1.2 billion views and many later adaptations.
Medical Excellence Capital Partners
Medical Excellence Capital Partners is the debut venture fund of Medical Excellence Capital, a life science firm led by John Prufeta that closed $145 million of a $250 million target in 2022.
Medical Expenditure Panel Survey
The Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) is an ongoing set of US household, provider, and employer surveys sponsored by AHRQ that produce nationally representative data on health insurance coverage and medical expenditures.
Medical expulsive therapy
Medical expulsive therapy is drug treatment, usually with an alpha-blocker such as tamsulosin, given to help a ureteral stone 10 mm or smaller pass in the urine without surgery.
Medical Faculty
Medical faculty (Faculty, Medical, MeSH D005180): teaching and administrative staff with academic rank in a medical school; tracked in the US by the AAMC Faculty Roster since 1966, over 200,000 active full-time faculty.
Medical fetishism
Medical fetishism (medfet) is sexual arousal from medical scenarios, equipment, roles, or procedures, from doctor/nurse roleplay to catheters and enemas. Not a disorder unless distress or impairment; ICD-11 removed standalone fetishism diagnoses.
Medical Futility
Medical futility: clinical-ethics concept for interventions unable to deliver their designed benefit; categories include physiological, imminent-demise, lethal-condition, and qualitative futility; shaped by Wanglie, Baby K, and the Texas Advance Directives Act.
Medical genetics
Medical genetics: the medical specialty applying genetic research to human health, covering diagnosis, management, genetic counseling, laboratory standards (ACMG/AMP variant classification), and genomic medicine.
Medical genetics of Jews
Medical genetics of Jews covers hereditary disorders elevated in Jewish populations, especially Ashkenazi Jews, due to founder effects and endogamy, and the Tay-Sachs carrier screening programs begun in the 1970s that cut disease incidence by over 90 percent.
Medical glove
Medical gloves: disposable examination, surgical, and chemotherapy gloves regulated as FDA Class I devices. Invented 1890 by Halsted for nurse Caroline Hampton; powdered gloves banned in 2016.
Medical history
Medical history: the patient's account of symptoms, past illness, and circumstances elicited by clinicians. Rooted in Hippocratic case records, standardized by Osler at Johns Hopkins in 1893, and subject to measurable recall bias.
Medical image analysis
Medical image analysis: computer science field applying computer vision, machine learning, and deep learning to X-ray, CT, MRI, ultrasound, and OCT images for diagnosis; flagship journal Medical Image Analysis (1996) and MICCAI meeting.
Medical imaging
Medical imaging: diagnostic tests (X-ray, CT, MRI, ultrasound, nuclear medicine) that picture the body's interior for diagnosis, treatment planning, and monitoring; began with Röntgen's 1895 X-rays; includes radiologists, safety, and ACR appropriateness criteria.
Medical Imaging Interaction Toolkit (MITK)
The Medical Imaging Interaction Toolkit (MITK) is a free, open-source C++ framework for medical image computing developed at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg.
Medical laboratory
Medical laboratory (clinical laboratory): facility testing human specimens for diagnosis, prevention, and treatment. About 14 billion US tests yearly in 266,000+ CLIA-certified labs; ISO 15189 is the main accreditation standard; most errors are pre-analytical.
Medical laboratory scientist
Medical laboratory scientist (MLS), formerly medical technologist (MT): bachelor's-level US laboratory professional testing blood, urine, and tissue in hematology, chemistry, microbiology, blood bank, and molecular benches; ASCP/AMT/AAB certified, $62,930 median pay, four-state licensure.
Medical malpractice
Medical malpractice is professional negligence by healthcare providers, a tort requiring proof of duty, breach, causation, and damages. Rooted in English common law, prominent in the US since the 1840s, with damages caps and no-fault alternatives.
Medical management of uterine fibroids
Medical management of uterine fibroids is the drug treatment of fibroid symptoms, chiefly heavy menstrual bleeding, using GnRH agonists and antagonists, SPRMs, tranexamic acid, and hormonal contraceptives.