Glossary
Health Sciences Professor Terms & Vocabulary
15 essential health sciences professor terms with plain-English definitions: the vocabulary you’ll hear in training and on day one.
Key health sciences professor vocabulary
These 15 terms come up constantly in health sciences professor training, on the job and in interviews. Knowing them helps you follow instructions, document accurately and sound prepared.
- Accreditation
- Program approval.
- Board pass rate
- Graduates passing exams.
- Case-based learning
- Teaching with patient cases.
- Clinical faculty
- Faculty who practice.
- Clinical rotation
- Training in a clinical setting.
- Competency
- Required skill.
- Curriculum map
- Course alignment plan.
- Debriefing
- Reflection after simulation.
- Evidence-based practice
- Care based on research.
- Grand rounds
- Clinical teaching conference.
- Interprofessional education
- Learning across professions.
- OSCE
- Objective structured clinical exam.
- Preceptor
- Clinical teacher.
- Simulation lab
- Practice with mannequins.
- Tenure
- Permanent status.
Practice these terms
Test yourself with the free Health Sciences Professor practice test: it includes vocabulary questions built from this list. For a complete course, see Health Sciences Professor training.
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