Medical School Application Time line
What is the name of the application service most U.S. allopathic medical schools use?
What is AMCAS (American Medical College Application Service)
Which macromolecule are enzymes classified as?
What are Proteins?
During the Black Plague, doctors wore masks shaped like this animal to protect themselves.
What is a bird
This Boston sports team has won the most World Series championships of any team in the city.
What are the Boston Red Sox?
Octopuses have this many hearts
What is Three?
In what month does the AMCAS application typically open?
What is may
This organelle generates ATP through oxidative phosphorylation.
What is the mitochondrion?
This study withheld treatment from Black men with syphilis to observe disease progression, even after penicillin became the cure.
What is the Tuskegee Syphilis Study?
This neighborhood, famous for Italian food and historic sites, is also called Boston’s “Little Italy.”
What is the North End?
Which vitamin is primarily synthesized in the skin when exposed to sunlight?
What is Vitamin D?
What is the name of the step where schools send tailored essay prompts?
What are Secondaries
In humans, this organ filters blood and produces urine.
What is the kidney?
This discovery by Alexander Fleming in 1928 revolutionized medicine and saved millions of lives.
What is penicillin?
This 2.5-mile path takes you past 16 historic landmarks, including the Old North Church and Paul Revere’s House
What is the Freedom Trail?
The viral “Ice Bucket Challenge” raised awareness and funds for this disease.
What is ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis)?
What month is considered early to take the MCAT for the next application cycle?
What is January-march
During this mitotic stage, sister chromatids are separated and pulled to opposite poles.
What is anaphase?
Before germ theory, many believed diseases were spread through this “bad air.”
What is miasma?
This hospital performed the first successful public demonstration of surgical anesthesia in 1846, using ether.
What is Massachusetts General Hospital?
This HBO show about a wealthy dysfunctional family ended in 2023 and was a major Emmy winner.
What is Succession?
Name the three major application services for U.S. medical schools (allopathic, osteopathic, and Texas).
What are AMCAS, AACOMAS, and TMDSAS?
During cellular respiration, this process in the mitochondria produces the most ATP.
What is oxidative phosphorylation (ETC)
The immortal HeLa cell line was first cultured in 1951. Name the hospital where they were taken without consent.
What is Johns Hopkins Hospital?
This fruit was so popular in colonial Boston that sailors brought barrels of it on voyages to prevent scurvy.
What are cranberries?
A group of flamingos is called this.
What is flamboyance?