Medical Basics
What is the largest organ in the human body?
What is Skin?
How many years of medical school are required in the U.S.?
4 years (plus residency afterward)
True or False: Doctors are legally required to maintain patient confidentiality.
True
What tools is used to hear your heartbeat?
What medical practice did ancient Egyptians use to preserve bodies?
What is mummification?
What blood type is considered the universal donor?
What is O Negative?
What kind of doctor specializes in the treatment of children?
What is a Pediatrician?
A patient refuses life-saving treatment. What ethical principle does the doctor respect by honoring their choice?
What is autonomy?
Which imaging technique uses magnets and radio waves?
What is a MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging)?
which US president had polio and used a wheelchair?
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
Which chamber of the heart pumps oxygenated blood to the body?
What is the left ventricle?
What is the difference between an MD and a DO?
What is Doctor of Medicine (allopathic), DO = Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (holistic, musculoskeletal focus)?
Which principle requires doctors to act in the best interest of their patients?
What is beneficence?
What is the name of the device used to restart a stopped heart?
What is a defibrillator (AED)
Which scientist discovered penicillin?
Who is Alexander Fleming?
What is the functional unit of the kidney?
Which medical specialty focuses on the mind and behavior?
What is Psychiatry?
What’s the term for a written statement of a patient’s healthcare wishes?
What is advance directive or living will?
What is bloodletting?
What is a medical procedure that involves removing blood from the body?
What medical symbol features a staff and two snakes?
What is a caduceus?
What is the functional unit of the kidney?
What is the cerebellum?
Who is considered the father of modern medicine?
Who is hippocrates?
What is the principle that requires doctors to “do no harm”?
What is Nonmaleficence?
What gene-editing technology acts like “molecular scissors” to cut and modify DNA?
What is CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats)?
What was the first successful organ transplant?
What is a kidney transplant (1954 by. Joseph Murray)?