HOSA Facts
What does HOSA stand for
What is Health Occupations Students of America?
Which blood cells are responsible for fighting infections?
White Blood Cells
This is the actual medical term for your kneecap
What is the patella?
What is the popular Medical TV series starring Ellen Pompeo (Meredith Grey)
What is Grey’s Anatomy?
What was the pandemic that killed millions of people throughout Europe and parts of Asia and North Africa between 1346-1353?
Plague/Black Death
What is the HOSA Motto
What is “The Hands of HOSA Mold the Health of Tomorrow”?
How many pairs of chromosomes do humans typically have in each cell?
23 pairs (46 in total)
This is the medical term for a bruise, which happens when tiny blood vessels break under the skin.
What is a contusion?
This Marvel superhero was a brilliant neurosurgeon before a car crash ruined his hands and led him to mystic arts. Who is it
Who is Doctor Strange?
Who discovered radium and polonium, as well as the concept of radioactivity?
Marie Curie
The city where the first National HOSA Conference was held
What is Oklahoma City, Oklahoma?
What is the hardest substance in the human body?
Tooth enamel is the outer layer of teeth and is harder than bone.
If a patient is diagnosed with acute rhinitis, they are suffering from this very common, everyday seasonal sickness.
What is the common cold?
In this tragic movie and book, two teens with cystic fibrosis fall in love but have to stay six feet apart. What movie/book is it
What is Five Feet Apart?
Who created the first successful polio vaccine?
Jonas Salk
Of the original six founding states that chartered HOSA in 1976, this was the only one located in the Pacific or Southwestern United States
What is New Mexico?
What color is an octopus's blood?
Octopuses use a copper-based protein called hemocyanin to carry oxygen, which turns their blood blue.
A patient has a heart rate of 48 beats per minute. What medical term describes this condition?
Bradycardia
Internet personality that coined the slogan "chest compressions, chest compressions, chest compressions"
Who is Dr. Mike (Dr. Mikhail Varshavski)?
Who discovered Penicillin?
Alexander Fleming
What is the federal legislation that famously provides educational grants funding HOSA and a majority of other careers and technical education (CTE) programs
What is the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act?
What is the only mammal that is born with a beak?
The platypus is a unique egg-laying mammal that has a leathery, duck-like bill.
A patient feels dizzy when standing because their blood pressure suddenly drops. What is this called?
Orthostatic hypotension
The name of the first medical show that Noah Wyle (Dr. Michael Robinavitch) acted in? HINT: It's not The Pitt
What is the TV show ER? Noah Wyle played Dr. John Carter on the show!
Who was the Hippocratic Oath named after?
Hippocrates