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What is machine learning and artificial intelligence applications in protein folding (alpha fold)
This specialty has the highest burnout rate
What is emergency medicine?
The abbreviation for the section in the MCAT, "CARS," stands for this.
What is Critical Analysis and Reasoning Skills
The temperature mammalian cells are normally cultured at (in Celsius)?
What is 37 C?
The student tradition that is typical for the end of the semester before finals.
What is making sacrifices/donations to Testudo?
The only FDA-approved stem cell transplant therapy is this
What is bone marrow transplant?
This residency program is required before pursuing a fellowship in infectious disease
What is Internal Medicine
This person proposed the psychoanalytic theory of the id, ego, and superego.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
The minimum temperature for a fever (in Celsius).
What is 38 C
What is Ellicott and Hagerstown Hall
Surgeons from UMSOM were successfully able to transplant a heart from this animal into a human patient
The ear, nose, and throat medical specialty is more formally known as this
What is Otolaryngology?
A net total of 2 of these molecules are produced during glycolysis.
What is ATP
This maneuver is performed to relieve choking in adults and involves abdominal thrusts.
What is the Heimlich maneuver?
This creator of The Muppets attended the University of Maryland, where he began developing some of his iconic characters.
Who is Jim Henson?
UMD has won this many Nobel Prizes in the sciences
What is 2
The average medical school matriculation age?
What is between 24-25 years old?
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This amino acid forms a ring with itself and frequently disrupts the secondary structure of a protein.
What is proline?
This wet-lab analysis blotting approach is used to understand post-translational modifications.
What is eastern blotting.
This is the building where you can find the Greg Heffley Statue on campus.
What is the STAMP Student Union
This cancer drug was based off of the Nobel Prize winning paper which outlined the PD1 and PD-1L receptors involvement in immunosuppression
What is Keytruda
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Someone suffering from Grave's Disease will most likely see this specialist.
What is an endocrinologist.
What is the Pineal Gland
This is the recommended compression-to-breath ratio for adult high performance CPR when performed by two rescuers.
What is 10 compressions to 1 breath without pause.
A scooter caught fire in this dorm last year.
What is La Plata Hall