Medicine: Difference between revisions

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Welcome to the School of Medicine!

This is a Wikiversity content development project where participants create, organize and develop learning resources about medicine. Please read the Wikiversity medical disclaimer.

Medicine is the art and science of the causation, diagnosis and treatment of disease and injury. It is both an area of knowledge – a science of body systems, their diseases and treatment – and the applied practice of that knowledge. However, medicine often refers more specifically to matters dealt with by physicians and surgeons.

Divisions and Departments

The various specialized branches of the science of medicine correspond to the equally specialized medical professions dealing with particular organs or diseases. The science of medicine is the knowledge of body systems and diseases, while the profession of medicine refers to the social structure of the group of people formally trained to apply that knowledge to treat disease.

Medicine comprises various specialities, such as cardiology, pulmonology, neurology, or other fields such as sports medicine, research or public health.

Divisions and Departments of the School exist on pages in "topic" namespace. Start the name of departments with the "Topic:" prefix; departments reside in the Topic: namespace. Departments and divisions link to learning materials and learning projects. Divisions can link subdivisions or to departments. For more information on schools, divisions and departments look at the Naming Conventions.

Premedicine

See: Topic:Premedical Studies

Basic sciences

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Basic medical sciences

Chemistry - Physics - Molecular Biology - Cell Biology - Biochemistry - Anatomy - Psychology - Communication - Philosophy - General Biology - Histology - Medical Microbiology - Pathology - Pharmacology - Physiology - Immunology - Laboratory Techniques - Genetics - Serology - Virology - Community Medicine - Health Informatics - Cytogenetics

Medical Specializations / Divisions and Departments

Recommend reorganization of topic:

Clinical Medicine
- Primary care
  - General Internal Medicine
  - Pediatrics
  - Family Medicine
  - Geriatrics
  - Emergency Medicine/Urgent Care
  - Nursing Practice
  - General Practice
  - Taxpayer-supported clinics
- Subspecialty Medicine and Surgery
  - Internal Medicine subspecialties
  - Obstetrics and Gynecology
  - General Surgery
  - Surgical subspecialties
  - Emergency Care
  - Hospital Medicine

Other Medicine
- Research and Education
- Public Health
- Administration

Division of Surgery and Anaesthesiology

Division of General and Internal Medicine

Division of Healthcare and General Practice

Division of Woman, Child and Geriatric Health

Division of Clinical Neurosciences

Division of Diagnostic and Therapeutic Sciences

Division of Experimental Medicine

Biomedical Informatics

Division of Military Medicine

Military Medicine

Multidisciplinary

Content development projects:

Observed structured clinical examination

Multidisciplinary courses

Evidence-based medicine
Clinical cases
Healthcare reform - ideas to consider, questions to ask, implications
- The 'personal physician' or 'medical home' vs fragmented care
- Where: United States vs the rest of the world
- Spend more tax dollars vs increase individual responsibility
- Encourage preventive medicine, management of chronic disease, timely and cost-effective treatment of acute illness vs sporadic emergency care and treatment of advanced disease that might have been prevented
- Reimburse for thinking vs reimburse for doing
- Sell or give away fish vs teach 'how to fish'
- An approach that will keep on giving vs an approach that will keep on taking
- Targeting decreased risk of medical errors vs paying no attention to risk of medical errors
- Fixing the process vs fixing a 'problem'
- Will 'reform' facilitate improved functioning of the patient within society? vs Will it cause patients to be more dependent on society?
- Will 'reform' simplify? vs Will 'reform' complicate?
- Strengthen the family? vs Place increased strain on the family

Active participants

Steven Fruitsmaak (Talk) 00:10, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
Daniel575 15:34, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
Richard 06:25, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
Pouyan Golshani 10:08, 17 September 2006 (UTC
Eukesh 20:32, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
Riad 17:18, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
Dionysios ^(talk), a Participant in the Wikiversity School of Advanced General Studies, Date: 2007-07-24 (July 24, 2007) Time: 0624 UTC

Wikisystole 22:58, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

DónalMcK 13:08, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

School news
August 24, 2006 - School founded! Also most elements transferred from WikiBooks. Let the learning begin!

October 2, 2006 - Special learning project Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - explain the science behind each year's award.

October 4, 2006 - Special learning project Nobel Prize in Chemistry - explain the science behind each year's award.
Related news
May 26, 2007 - Some soft drinks may not be healthy for consumption...

May 17, 2007 - New medical school to train rural doctors to open in Washington...

April 15, 2007 - High blood pressure may originate in the brain...

April 9, 2007 - FDA approves memory enhancer as food additive... recognized as generally safe...

March 19, 2007 - Antibiotics may be prescribed too often for sinusitis.

March 2, 2007 - New study shows treating disease in the mouth can improve cardiovascular health.

October 27, 2006 - STD testing goes online + Stanford grad student teams up with Adult Industry Medical Health Care Foundation.
See also
The School of Biology

The School of Pharmacy

Wikibooks has a book on the topic of Medicine.

External links
HapMap

Medicine 2.0: the beginning of a new era - by Bertalan Meskó
Open source tools
Vascular Modeling Toolkit
Wikibooks
Human Physiology

A Textbook of Community Medicine

Open Medicine
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