(n.) novice; one in the rudiments of knowledge; especially, a student during his fist year in a college or university.
Example Sentences:
(1) This annual study contains descriptive statistics on applicants to the 1976--77 freshman classes of U.S. medical schools.
(2) The freshman senator from Iowa may be conservative and combative.
(3) Serum cholesterol and serum triglycerides were analyzed in their freshman and senior years.
(4) An investigation was conducted to examine correlates of emotional concerns and personality characteristics in a general freshman population.
(5) This article describes the development and application of standardized patients throughout medical training at The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, in the freshman interviewing course, the second-year physical diagnosis course, third-year clerkships, a fourth-year final exercise, and residency training.
(6) Yet the scale of the ambition is a far cry from when Zuckerberg was an ambitious and competitive freshman at Harvard.
(7) Risk factors for cardiovascular disease are commonly obtained in freshman medical students for the purpose of increasing interest and awareness in preventive cardiology.
(8) Nearly three-fourths switched specialties between freshman and senior years.
(9) Responses by 358 first-year students to a career preferences questionnaire administered in the fall of their freshman year revealed that students who preferred family medicine were more interested than other students in using medicine as a tool to help people.
(10) Subjects were 112 freshman females enrolled in a midwestern university during their first semester.
(11) Freshman dental students received training in communication skills via a systematic human relations model.
(12) Participants were asked if they would approve or disapprove of abortion requests under the following circumstances: 1) a young unmarried woman accidentally gets pregnant during her freshman year of college; 2) a woman who already has children maintains that she cannot afford another child either financially or emotionally; 3) rape; 4) life of the woman is endangered by the pregnancy.
(13) Ss were college freshman who were not enrolled in a foreign language course or had not previously taken more than one semester of a foreign language.
(14) Results indicated that college freshman displayed a greater degree of imaginary audience behavior than did younger adolescents when compared to scores reported by Elkind and Bowen (1979).
(15) He was suspended for a few months, and then four years later – after a different man, an assistant principal, was arrested for fondling and exposing himself to a freshman – he was suspended again.
(16) Freshman kicker Cade Foster missed the attempt which fell into the arms of Auburn's Chris Davis who returned it from 109 yards for the game winning touchdown.
(17) Winston is on pace (190.1) to break quarterback Russell Wilson's record for best passer efficiency rating in a season and set Football Bowl Subdivision freshman records for yards passing (3,820) and touchdown passes (38).
(18) The Medical University of South Carolina integrated instruction in information science and computer technology into a required freshman-level course.
(19) The authors examined the effects of four representative boarding schools on 132 Alaskan Eskimo adolescents during their freshman and sophomore years.
(20) In addition, according to logistic regression analysis, the students with relatively lower income expectations and a freshman preference for family practice were predicted to be nine times more likely to enter family practice residencies than were students with higher income expectations and no initial family practice preference (56% versus 6%).
Freshmen
Definition:
(pl. ) of Freshman
Example Sentences:
(1) We surveyed 158 college freshmen on an urban campus to determine their sexual practices and their knowledge and attitudes about acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS).
(2) In 1981, using a 30% random sample, freshmen students in medicine and dentistry at UTM and medical students at a nearby state medical school similar to UTM were surveyed concerning health behaviors, attitudes, and knowledge.
(3) The survey was conducted in 1986-87 via a questionnaire mailed to 2,030 individuals, including freshmen, juniors, interns, residents, and newly practicing generalists; 80.3% responded.
(4) The sample consisted of 340 1st or 2nd semester college freshmen (58.5% males and 41.5% females) entering a required health education course at a midwestern college.
(5) Subjects were 40 college freshmen who had been identified as high test-anxious in an initial mail-out survey of the Test Anxiety scale.
(6) 109 freshmen, 103 seniors, and 82 graduates (baccalaureate nursing) were examined for model selection, risk-taking, restrictions, and anxiety in the decision-making process in specific situations.
(7) All subjects had been given the MMPI as entering freshmen in the years 1962-1965.
(8) Students classified at risk as freshmen are more likely to remain at risk as seniors.
(9) 55 freshmen were administered a measure of formal operations consisting of eight suboperations and a complete score, the Omnibus Personality Inventory, and the conceptual complexity measure.
(10) The attitudes of freshmen who had just entered nursing schools and seniors who had already finished clinical training in psychiatry were compared to measure the attitude change during the course of nursing education, if any.
(11) The objective of this study was to assess whether freshmen improved these skills after mirror training in three dimensions.
(12) Many medical schools have required emergency medicine courses for freshmen medical students, usually through participation in BLS (basic life support) or EMT activities.
(13) However, a positive health behavior trend was noted with respect to smokeless tobacco use declining from a high of 14% as freshmen to 8% as seniors.
(14) To test these hypotheses, college freshmen were prompted to offer rules for word construction to a same-sex recipient (a confederate) who was described as needing remediation on vocabulary and who "failed" a practice task.
(15) This study complements previous reports of an examination of entering freshmen and seniors.
(16) A history of cold sores was obtained in 25.6% of the freshmen; none had a history of manifest genital herpes.
(17) Eight pre-entry, four academic, four social-institutional, and nine commitment variables differed significantly in retained and departed freshmen.
(18) Members of a medical school graduating class of 1985 were studied as freshmen and prior to graduation to assess the developmental issues of autonomy, intimacy and career choice.
(19) An experiment that focused on attitudes toward sexually active older persons was conducted with 140 freshmen medical students.
(20) Thirty-six male dental students, 20 freshmen and 16 sophomores, at Case Western Reserve University, participated in the study.