Medical Trivia
The normal average baseline human body temperature measured in Fahrenheit.
What is 98.6°F?
The classic buzzer-style team event officially added to the competitive landscape in 1985.
What is HOSA Bowl?
The official slogan and current subtitle of the HOSA organization.
What is "Future Health Professionals"?
The official year and month that HOSA was organized at a Constitutional Convention in Arlington, Texas.
What is November 1976?
This common medical suffix indicates inflammation, as seen in conditions like appendicitis or tonsillitis.
What is -itis?
The underlying cause of common colds, debunking the myth that they are directly caused by chilly outdoor temperatures.
What are viruses?
The core category of events that includes individual tests like Medical Terminology and Behavioral Health.
What is Health Science?
The three official colors of HOSA.
What are Navy Blue, Medical White, and Maroon?
The initial number of charter states that gathered to form the organization.
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What is six? (Alabama, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, and Texas).
While rhino- means nose, this root word specifically refers to the nostrils or the bridge of the nose.
What is naso-?
The specific organ responsible for producing insulin in the human body.
What is the pancreas?
This specific event is an individual exception in the Emergency Preparedness category, which is otherwise comprised of team events.
What is Epidemiology?
Represented by the hands in the official HOSA emblem.
What is the caring of each HOSA member?
The city that hosted the very First Annual National Leadership Conference in 1978.
What is Oklahoma City?
If a surgeon is performing a salpingo-oophorectomy, they are operating on these two specific structures of the female reproductive system.
What are the fallopian tubes and ovaries?
The proper compression-to-breath ratio when performing CPR on an adult.
What is 30 to 2?
The type of event showcasing creative projects, which happened to be the very first competitive event held at the 1978 conference.
What is a poster competition (HOSA Poster)?
The meaning of the circle shape in the official HOSA emblem.
What is the continuity of health care?
Served as the first National President of HOSA.
Who is Lynne McGee?
The prefix oculo- refers to the eye, but this highly specific root word denotes the eyelid.
What is blepharo-?
The year the World Health Organization officially declared that smallpox had been globally eradicated.
What is 1979?
The category of competitive events that requires students to complete a round-one written test before advancing to a hands-on round-two skills demonstration (Veterinary Science or Dental Science).
What are Health Professions events?
The first line of the official HOSA creed.
What is "I believe in the healthcare profession"?
This U.S. President received an Honorary Life Membership in HOSA in 1982.
Who is George H.W. Bush?
If a patient is diagnosed with onycho-cryptosis, they are suffering from this painful, everyday extremity condition.
What is an ingrown nail (fingernail or toenail)?