(n.) A letter or writing, usually under seal, conferring some privilege, honor, or power; a document bearing record of a degree conferred by a literary society or educational institution.
Example Sentences:
(1) Photograph: Sophia Evans for the Observer REGISTERED, SUPPORTS REMAIN Hannah Capstick, 22 Studying for a graduate diploma in law, Leeds Among my friendship group, people didn’t vote in the local elections.
(2) 72.9% of the dentists received their dental diploma within the last 5 years and were predominantly male.
(3) Doctors more likely to report adherence to the recommendations of the Working Party on screening for cervical cancer were: members and associates of the Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners; doctors with less than 15 years experience; female doctors; doctors with a diploma of obstetrics and doctors in group practices.
(4) Three years later, the proud owner of a PG diploma in housing studies and member of the Chartered Institute of Housing, I was offered the opportunity to complete a further year's study and obtain that elusive degree.
(5) This qualitative study was undertaken to help clarify the meaning and value of caring in nursing practice as perceived by second-year diploma nursing students.
(6) Only 12,000 pupils started the government's new diploma qualification this September, the schools secretary, Ed Balls , confirmed yesterday.
(7) Meanwhile, several members of the IDS Communications team have been encouraged to study for diplomas in marketing.
(8) Subgroups were analyzed in relation to the chosen area of clinical concentration: community health, psychiatric, medical-surgical, and maternal-child nursing; basic nursing education: diploma or generic baccalaureate; and, marital status: single or married.
(9) It was stated that the introduction of the program of advanced training for the diploma of dentist specialized in general stomatology has led to the conceptual and methodological improvement of the educational and training processes.
(10) That diploma is both proof of what he had accomplished and the key to higher learning.
(11) Education Epsom high school, Surrey; North East Surrey College of Technology; Chartered Institute of Bankers (evening classes), certificate in banking; City University, BSc Philosophy & Sociology; City University, postgraduate diploma disability; Management at Work.
(12) Although he completed a teaching diploma - and would have made an inspiring teacher - he joined the BBC as a general trainee in 1968, and after three years as a staff producer in London and Durham returned to work for the newly established BBC Radio Oxford.
(13) A sample of senior associate degree, undergraduate and diploma student nurses in Alabama responded to an 87-item questionnaire which was personally administered by the investigator in a classroom setting.
(14) Balls insisted that his department had received "positive feedback" from teachers and students on diplomas.
(15) He denied playing the game and moving back in with his mother because his business ventures, including a firm selling fake diplomas, had failed.
(16) Technical and Further Education (TAFE) in Western Australia has recently restructured electives offered in certificate and diploma courses of Applied Science.
(17) "I went to my diploma exhibition and thought: 'This is nothing like what was going on in my head.'
(18) It gets even worse when you are proud of the fact that you went to Pat Robertson’s God Hates Facts pay-and-print diploma mill Regents University, where you wrote , “Every level of government should statutorially and procedurally prefer married couples over cohabitators, homosexuals, and fornicators.” So it gets fantastically worse when you describe your marriage as on “hold” and live during the trial with your parish priest, Rev Wayne Ball of St. Patrick’s Catholic Church, whose assignations Talking Points Memo delicately summarizes as thus : Ball, then pastor of Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Norfolk, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of frequenting a bawdy place.
(19) Baccalaureate nurses had the most success in documenting components and diploma nurses had the least.
(20) Analysis of questionnaire data collected from a sample of 36 diploma school nursing instructors indicated slight correlations between specific trust and general trust and between general trust and empathy.
Diplomate
Definition:
(n.) A diplomatist.
(v. t.) To invest with a title o/ privilege by diploma.
Example Sentences:
(1) If the present trend of increasing the length of urology residency training to 2 pre-urology years plus 4 years of urology continues, and if the influx of foreign trained graduates continues to decrease the problem of overproduction of urological specialists may be solved, since these 2 measures by themselves would reduce the annual certification in the United States to about 280 diplomates, which is 20 less than the estimated annual attrition of 300 practicing urologists.
(2) The intent of this paper is to explore the motivational factors of a select group of periodontists who have become diplomates.
(3) The absolute standard for the examination resulted in a total group pass rate of 64% (n = 1,725); the pass rate for diplomates with training in CCM was 84%.
(4) It acknowledges undergraduate and diplomate (P2000) education in nursing and puts forward these same elements within the context of the curriculum.
(5) Diplomates of the ACVR or ACVS and senior veterinary students were asked to perform measurements of the angle of inclination using the four methods, record their results, and answer several questions about the techniques.
(6) A total of 510 candidates took the 1989 Examination for Added Qualifications in Surgery of the Hand, including 412 diplomates of the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery and ninety-eight diplomates of the American Board of Surgery.
(7) Diplomates were admitted to the examination through four pathways requiring formal training in CCM and two practice pathways; 89% of the diplomates entered through the practice pathways.
(8) Recognizing the steady expansion of medical knowledge, the societal desire to ensure the best possible medical care, and governmental concern for verification of physician competence, the American Board of Ophthalmology is preparing to offer a voluntary recertification program for Diplomates of the Board who wish to establish current professional competence.
(9) Recertification offers a method of evaluating a diplomate's cognitive knowledge of allergy and immunology.
(10) Diplomates of the American Board of Internal Medicine in hematology or medical oncology were surveyed about the content and setting of their practices, adequacy of training for professional activities, and preferences for certification.
(11) This number included 54 pediatric Diplomates and 84 nonboarded pediatric dentists.
(12) A questionnaire was sent to diplomates of the American Board of Endodontics to determine changing trends in the treatment of endodontic emergencies since Dorn's survey 10 yr ago.
(13) On 26 October 1974, 3356 diplomates of the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) took a 1-day written examination for recertification consisting of multiple-choice, matching, and true-false questions derived from the American College of Physicians' Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program III and the ABIM Certifying Examination pool.
(14) Calculations made since January 1979 and the comments from the participants in this study strongly suggest that additional enticements must be forthcoming to draw more periodontists into diplomate status.
(15) The American College of Prosthodontists conducted a survey of the income of prosthodontists who were Diplomates of The American Board of Prosthodontics in 1973.
(16) The answers from 95 diplomates were as varied as the individual respondents, but the principal motive was "personal achievement."
(17) A survey was sent to all 525 (domestic) Diplomates of the American Board of Endodontics.
(18) Supervision was usually by a diplomate who took an active role in the project.
(19) Periodontists who become diplomates of the American Board of Periodontology do so for many reasons.
(20) A large majority of family practice educators have had two years of graduate training and are diplomates of the American Board of Family Practice.