All About iCEV
Certification Station
Healthcare Careers
Body of Knowledge
Medical Milestones
100

iCEV serves this many school districts across the country. (Hint: it's in the thousands!)

What is 3,800+ districts

100

This lifesaving certification, often required for healthcare workers, teaches chest compressions and rescue breaths.

What is CPR (or BLS)

100

With over 4 million practicing in the U.S., this is the nation's largest healthcare profession.

What is a Registered Nurse (RN)

100

This is the largest organ of the human body, and it's on the outside.

What is the skin

100

Known as the founder of modern nursing, she was called "The Lady with the Lamp."

Who is Florence Nightingale

200

iCEV offers curriculum spanning this many national career clusters, all of them.

What is 14

200

The CCMA credential certifies students in this versatile clinical role that supports physicians in exam rooms.

What is a Certified Clinical Medical Assistant

200

This advanced practice nursing role consistently ranks among the fastest-growing occupations in America.

What is a Nurse Practitioner

200

The adult human body contains this many bones.

What is 206

200

In 1928, Alexander Fleming discovered this first true antibiotic.

What is penicillin

300

iCEV aligns with health science certifications from these credentialing bodies, including the one behind the CCMA.

Who are NHA, AMCA, NOCTI, and NCHSE

300

Earners of the CPT credential are certified to perform this procedure: drawing blood.

What is phlebotomy (Certified Phlebotomy Technician)

300

These professionals, sometimes called "rad techs," capture medical images like X-rays and CT scans.

What are Radiologic Technologists

300

Found in your thigh, this is the longest and strongest bone in the body.

What is the femur

300

Wilhelm Röntgen won the first Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering these in 1895.

What are X-rays

400

Under Texas Proclamation 2024, iCEV was approved for this many Health Science courses.

What is seven

400

A CET certification qualifies a student to run this test that records the heart's electrical activity.

What is an EKG (electrocardiogram)

400

Working under physician supervision, this "PA" role can diagnose illnesses and prescribe medication.

What is a Physician Assistant

400

The human heart has this many chambers.

What is four (two atria, two ventricles)

400

Edward Jenner developed the world's first vaccine against this deadly disease, now eradicated.

What is smallpox

500

This new iCEV feature lets teachers measure student growth by assessing knowledge at the beginning and end of a course.

What are Pretests & Posttests

500

This national consortium's assessments benchmark health science knowledge across states; its initials are NCHSE.

What is the National Consortium for Health Science Education

500

This branch of healthcare careers focuses on lab work, imaging, and testing rather than direct patient care, one of the five Health Science pathways.

What is Diagnostic Services

500

Located in the middle ear, this is the smallest bone in the human body.

What is the stapes

500

Completed in 2003, this international research effort mapped all of our DNA.

What is the Human Genome Project

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