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This common imaging method uses sound waves to visualize organs and is especially known for monitoring pregnancies.
What is an Ultrasound
This acronym summarizes UCSF’s core values: Professionalism, Respect, Integrity, Diversity, and Excellence.
What is Pride?
This song begins with the lyric, “Dashing through the snow…”
What is Jingle Bells
This director is known for Jurassic Park, Jaws, and E.T.
Who is Steven Spielberg?
When a device fails intermittently, this troubleshooting approach examines environmental factors like heat and vibration.
What is root cause analysis?
These strategic “guideposts” keep UCSF aligned with mission and vision—often shown as a pyramid.
What are the True North pillars?
Mariah Carey’s best-known Christmas hit from 1994.
What is All I Want for Christmas Is You?
This film series features characters named Frodo, Gandalf, and Aragorn
What is The Lord of the Rings?
This accrediting body inspects hospitals for compliance with equipment management standards.
Who is The Joint Commission?
This UCSF center specializes in neurosurgery, neurology, and the world-renowned Brain Tumor Center.
What is the UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences?
On the 12th day of Christmas, this large bird is given as a gift.
What is a partridge?
This U.S. state has the most active volcanoes
What is Alaska?
A device used to mechanically support the heart’s pumping function during severe heart failure.
What is a ventricular assist device (VAD)?
UCSF’s cancer hospital and research center is named after this prominent philanthropist.
Who is Helen Diller?
This phenomenon occurs when daylight is shortest, usually around December 21st.
What is the winter solstice?
This U.S. state is the only one to grow coffee commercially.
What is Hawaii?
This equipment category requires the highest priority for PM due to direct patient life-support.
What is life-support equipment?
UCSF was originally founded in 1864 as this medical college.
What is Toland Medical College?
This Hawaiian Christmas greeting is well-known thanks to a Bing Crosby song.
What is “Mele Kalikimaka”?
This is the term for a word that reads the same backward as forward.
What is a palindrome?