Medical Knowledge
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100

This is the name of the storage form of glucose

What is glycogen

100
HUCM was founded in this year

What is 1868

100

This color is indicative of a gram-negative bacterium in Sketchy videos

What is red 


100

This hit medical TV show's main character goes by the name Merideth

What is Grey's Anatomy


100

This city is where AMEC 2025 will take place

What is Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 

200

This is the largest organ in the body

What is the skin

200

This woman was the first female dean of the college of medicine

Who is Dr. Andrea Hayes-Dixon

200

This gram-positive cocci causes classic strep throat in children.

What is group A strep (Streptococcus pyogenes)


200

This specialty (name one) had the most unfilled spots after the 2025 initial match

Family medicine/internal medicine

200

These schools were credited for founding SNMA (must name both)

What is Howard and Meharry
300

This cancer has the highest rate of mortality worldwide

What is lung cancer

300

Dean Rose specializes in this type of surgery

Vascular surgery

300

The baby in the group b strep sketchy (strep agalactiae) wears this object to represent neonatal meningitis

What is a helmet

300
This specialty has the highest average pay (can name the surgical or non-surgical specialty; 2 answers!)

Neurosurgery or Cardiology

300

This physician is the current president of the National Medical Association (hint: he's very close to home!)

Who is Dr. Roger A. Mitchell Jr. 


400

Gaining popularity as weight loss treatments, Ozempic and Wegovy are GLP-1 receptor agonists that are mainly used to treat this chronic medical condition

What is type II diabetes

400

The first graduating class of HUCM had this many students

What is 8

400

Hemorrhagic colitis (bloody diarrhea) can be caused by eating undercooked beef because of a subtype of this gram-negative bacteria (hint: other than Shigella and Salmonella)

E. coli (EHEC)


400

This famous tennis athlete recently shared her experience using the GLP1 drug Zepound for a 31 pound weight loss

Who is Serena Williams

400

SNMA celebrates its Founding Day on this day every year

What is October 4th, 1964

500

This melatonin-producing organ is the smallest organ in the body.

What is the pineal gland

500

This was the first residency program started at HUCM in 1936 

What is general surgery

500

This symbol represents a commonly used beta-lactam antibiotic, first line in treating primary syphillis and strep throat

What is the penicillin pencil 

500

This physician was recognized as the first African American to serve on a medical school faculty

Dr. Alexander Thomas Augusta

Appointed in 1868 after offering his services to the United States Army. In 1863, he was commissioned as a major and the Army's first African-American physician; he became the first black hospital administrator in U.S. history while serving in the army.

500

This many chapters of SNMA exist today

What is 193

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