FOM Actual Flashcards
Etiology of disease occurs due to which 3 factors? Also known as epidemiological triangle
Agent
Host
Environmental
Common Disease stages
susceptibility
Pre symptomatic disease
Clinical disease
Recovery, disability or death
Demography the study of human population focuses on 3 things which are?
Change in population size
Composition of the population
Distribution of population in space
Demographic processes include
Fertility
Mortality
Marriage
Migration
Social mobility
Types of population census
De facto: physically present
De jure: permanent residents
Global fertility rate
2.5
Population density is
No of persons living per square kilometer
Dependents age range
0-14 and 65+
iatrogenic disease
Caused by medical intervention
Who discovered blood circulation?
William Harvey 1616
Human to human blood transfusion in what year? And by who
1818
James Blundell
Father of modern blood transfusion
James Blundell
Karl landsteiner discovered the ABO blood group in what year and was given a Nobel price in what year
1900
1930
Who discovered the Rhesus factor
Karl Landsteiner & Alexander S. Wiener
What war led to blood typing
WW1
Who describes antiglobulin testing
Robert Coombs
Theory of Disease in the ancient world.
Health was seen as a balance of what 4 Humors
Black bile
Yellow bile
Phlegm
Blood
The Humors theory was adapted by?
Hippocrates
Diagnosis earliest medical textbook
Edwin Smith Papyrus
4 diagnostic methods of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Inspection
Inquiry
Listening & smelling
Palpitation
Who discovered X-ray and in what year
He got the Nobel prize in what year
Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen
8 Nov 1895
1901
Golden decade of radiology
1970s
CT scan was invented in what year and by who
1972
Godfrey Hounsfield
Allan Cormack
MRI first used
1977
Raymond Vahan Damadian
Invention of electron microscope
1929
M. knoll
E. Ruska
CT:
MRI:
Computerized tomography
Magnetic resonance imaging
The first know surgery was probably
Trephining : drilling holes in the skull for headaches
Earliest body of organized medical knowledge
Chinese medicine
Egyptian God of medicine & healing
Imhotep
Egyptian patron goddess of healers and physicians
Sekhmet
Medical tourism started in
Egypt
First woman in science
Meri-Ptah
Egyptian procedures we still use
Suturing
Honey to cover wounds
Mould bread to prevent sepsis (penicillin)
Cauterization
Dilation of urethra using reeds
Claudius Galenus divided humors into which human temperaments
Black bile- melancholic
Yellow bile- choleric
Phlegm- phlegmatic
Blood- Sanguine
Father of Toxicology
Paracelsus
Who describes the human circulatory system
William Harvey
Perceval Pott contributions
Pott’s disease
Orthopedic surgery
Proved environment caused cancer
Invention of inoculation
Edward Jenner
John Hunter Contributed
STDs
Embryology
The lymphatic system
Understanding of human teeth
First woman on UK medical register
Elizabeth Blackwell
Pasteurization and the germ theory
Louis Pasteur
Pioneer of antiseptic surgery
Joseph Lister
First black American female doctor
Rebecca Crumpler
Inventor of Apgar Score
Virginia Apgar
Earliest west African to train as a doctor
Nathaniel King
2nd Nigerian to qualify as a doctor
Obadiah Johnson
Who successfully treated Guinea worm and yellow fever
John Randle
Oguntola Sapara
Longest serving colonial surgeon
Fought bubonic plague in Lagos 1924
1st Provost of cmul, cmd of Luth and first Nigerian admitted into royal college of surgeons
Prof H O Thomas
First female physician in Nigeria
Dr Abimbola Awoliyi
Doctor patient relations
High physician control & low patient control
Low physician control & high patient control
High high
Low low
Paternalism
Consumerist
Mutuality
Default
Rights of sick people
Exempt from performing normal social roles
Exempt from responsibility from their own state
Obligations of sick people
Get better asap
Cooperate with medical experts
The MDCN was originally established as?
Nigerian medical council 1963.
In 1988 it became Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria
