Abstract
The eponymous terms are anchored in the medical language and in the daily practice. Nevertheless, for several years their use has been controversial, the World Health Organization (WHO) has recommended that they no longer be used in order to clarify the classification of diseases, and certain societies have abandoned eponymous terms referring to Nazi doctors. The future of their use depends on the education of new generations of medical students. We asked ourselves the following research question: what eponymous terms are still present in the french official graduate medical curriculum in 2021? The main objective was to establish a list of eponymous terms in order to provide the medical community with a database for historical research.We analyzed 35 repositories from different university teaching colleges. The total number of eponymous terms we referenced was 1122. The average number of eponymous terms per item was 6.7. Out of 939 eponymous nouns designating people, 898 were male (or 95.5%) and 40 were female (or 4.5%). The majority of the proper nouns referring to people (87%) referred to a physician or surgeon. The top four countries represented were the United States, France, Germany, and England. The 19th and 20th centuries had the highest number of proper names.Our study shows that in 2021, eponymous terms still occupy an important place in the training of new generations of medical students.
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