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Contemporary Issues in Medicine:<br />
<strong>Education</strong> in <strong>Safe</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Effective</strong><br />
<strong>Prescribing</strong> <strong>Practices</strong><br />
Abbreviations <strong>and</strong> Acronyms<br />
This report necessarily uses a variety of abbreviations <strong>and</strong> acronyms. While most of these are well known to medical school<br />
faculty, a listing is provided for the convenience of all readers.<br />
AAMC Association of American Medical Colleges<br />
ACCP American College of Clinical Pharmacology<br />
ACGME Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical <strong>Education</strong><br />
ACP American College of Physicians<br />
ADR Adverse drug reaction<br />
AMSP Association for Medical School Pharmacology (now AMSPC)<br />
AMSPC Association of Medical School Pharmacology Chairs<br />
ARB Angiotensin Receptor Blocker (anti-hypertension drug)<br />
ASCPT American Society for Clinical Pharmacology <strong>and</strong> Therapeutics<br />
ASPET American Society for Pharmacology <strong>and</strong> Experimental Therapeutics<br />
AUC Area under the curve<br />
BLA Biologics License Application (application to the FDA)<br />
Cmax Maximum drug concentration in plasma<br />
CML Chronic myeloid leukemia<br />
CurrMIT AAMC’s Curriculum Management & <strong>In</strong>formation Tool<br />
DEA Drug Enforcement Administration<br />
DI Drug interaction<br />
DM Diabetes mellitus<br />
DTC Direct to consumer<br />
EBM Evidence-based medicine<br />
FDA Food <strong>and</strong> Drug Administration<br />
GI Gastro-intestinal<br />
HIPAA Health <strong>In</strong>surance Portability <strong>and</strong> Accountability Act of 1996<br />
HIV Human Immunodeficiency Virus<br />
ICU <strong>In</strong>tensive care unit<br />
IND <strong>In</strong>vestigational New Drug (application to the FDA)<br />
IRB <strong>In</strong>stitutional Review Board<br />
LCME Liaison Committee on Medical <strong>Education</strong><br />
MI Myocardial infarction<br />
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Association of American Medical Colleges, 2008
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