Anthropology, Education, Sociology, and Social Phenomena

Medical Graduate Education

Educational programs for medical graduates entering a specialty. They include formal specialty training as well as academic work in the clinical and basic medical sciences, and may lead to board certification or an advanced medical degree.

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Abstract

Educational programs for medical graduates entering a specialty. They include formal specialty training as well as academic work in the clinical and basic medical sciences, and may lead to board certification or an advanced medical degree.

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Synonyms

4 entry terms
  • Education, Graduate Medical
  • Education, Medical, Graduate
  • Graduate Medical Education
  • Medical Education, Graduate

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10 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, methods, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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Indexing Annotation

differentiate from EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING: see note on EDUCATION, CONTINUING; Manual 34.22 GRAD

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History Note

66; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, POSTGRADUATE was see under EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING & EDUCATION, MEDICAL, GRADUATE 1966-74; was heading 1963-65

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Medical Graduate Education. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D004503. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D004503
  2. Medical Graduate Education. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graduate_medical_education
  3. Medical Graduate Education. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5592059