Anatomy & Physiology
This organ filters blood, removes toxins, and regulates blood pressure.
What is the kidney?
This Canadian entrance exam for medical school, tests biology, chemistry, and critical analysis skills.
What is the MCAT (Medical College Admission Test)?
This common condition causes sneezing, itchy eyes, and congestion due to the immune system reacting to harmless substances like pollen.
What are allergies?
Black Canadians are about 2 times more likely to report experiencing this mental health condition due to discrimination compared to white Canadians.
What is depression or anxiety
The most effective study method for recalling new information, involving self-testing and reviewing.
What is active recall?
The largest bone in the human body.
What is the femur?
This Canadian province has the highest number of medical schools.
What is Ontario?
This type of cell disorder, affecting the shape of red blood cells, is more common in Black Canadians.
What is sickle cell disease?
Black and Indigenous Canadians are disproportionately impacted by this economic factor, which limits access to healthcare services.
What is low income?
This tool is helpful for visualizing complex biological systems, like organ pathways.
What are diagrams or concept maps?
This is the main muscle used in breathing, located just below the lungs.
What is the diaphragm?
Medical school graduates must complete this type of program, typically lasting 2 to 5 years, to gain specialized training in their chosen field.
What is a residency?
This autoimmune disease attacks the body's own insulin-producing cells in the pancreas.
What is Type I diabetes
Black women in the US are 3-4 times more likely than white women to die from complications of this life event.
What is childbirth?
A technique that involves breaking study sessions into shorter, focused periods with breaks.
What is the Pomodoro Method or Technique?
This structure in the eye focuses light onto the retina.
What is the lens?
MD-PhD students in Canada often have to balance these two major components of their program.
What are medical school and doctoral research?
A deficiency in this vitamin is commonly associated with rickets.
What is Vitamin D?
This health condition, involving high blood pressure, disproportionately affects Black and Indigenous communities in Canada, linked to both genetic factors and environmental influences such as access to healthcare and nutrition.
What is hypertension?
This strategy encourages you to eliminate obviously incorrect answers first, narrowing down your options when answering multiple choice questions.
What is process of elimination?
This is the part of the brain responsible for coordinating balance and movement.
What is the cerebellum?
A program that some universities, like the University of Toronto, offer to encourage Black students to apply for their medical programs.
What is the Black Student Application Program (BSAP)?
A viral infection affecting the liver, spread by blood and bodily fluids.
What is hepatitis B?
This concept aims to eliminate differences in health outcomes through focused intervention and resource allocation.
What is health equity?
This type of learning involves studying at different times or in various environments.
What is spaced repetition?