Pathways
Med schools usually require this test for applicants
What is the MCAT?
This scientist discovered penicillin in 1928.
Who is Alexander Fleming?
This is the largest organ of the human body.
What is skin?
True or False: You need to major in Biology to go to a graduate health profession school.
False!
This professional studies how medications move through the body and works to determine the safest and most effective way to use them in patients.
What is a pharmacist?
PA schools are typically this many years long.
What is 2 years?
This medical imaging technology, developed in the 1970s, uses magnets and radio waves instead of radiation to see inside the body.
What is MRI?
This highly mineralized tissue is one of the few structures in the body that cannot regenerate after significant damage, making dental intervention necessary.
What is a cavity?
This experience involves observing a healthcare professional to learn what their day-to-day work looks like.
What is shadowing?
A couple learns their family has a history of a rare inherited disease and wants to understand their risk before having children. They meet with this professional, who interprets genetic test results and counsels patients on inherited conditions.
What is a genetic counselor?
Professionals holding a DVM degree specialize in treating this unique patient population.
What are animals?
This organization, founded in 1948, sets global health standards and coordinated the response to outbreaks like COVID-19.
What is the WHO (World Health Organization)?
This neurotransmitter is commonly associated with reward, motivation, and movement.
What is dopamine?
True or False: Taking a gap year between undergrad and grad school will hurt your chances of getting in.
False!
A patient recovering from a stroke is having trouble swallowing food safely. They're referred to this professional, who evaluates and treats swallowing and communication disorders.
Who is a speech-language pathologist?
Nursing students who want to diagnose patients and prescribe medication independently pursue this advanced graduate role.
What is a Nurse Practitioner?
This woman's cancer cells, taken without her consent in 1951, became the first immortal human cell line and are still used in research today.
Who is Henrietta Lacks?
This is the only bone in the body that is not connected to another bone
What is the hyoid bone?
I should contact this person in the Career Development Center (CDC) about healthcare career opportunities.
Who is Rachel Chase
A newborn fails their hospital hearing screening. The family is referred to this professional, who specializes in diagnosing and treating hearing and balance disorders.
What is an audiologist?
If a patient has difficulty performing everyday activities after a stroke, such as dressing or cooking, they should visit this healthcare professional.
What is an occupational therapist?
This 1854 investigation, in which John Snow mapped cholera cases around a single London water pump, is considered the founding moment of modern epidemiology.
What is the Broad Street cholera outbreak?
This organ itself cannot feel pain because it does not contain pain receptors, even though it processes pain signals from the rest of your body.
What is the brain?
Name 3 different ways a pre-health student can explore a healthcare career outside of taking classes.
What is research, shadowing, volunteering, internships, study abroad, health education, etc
A patient is undergoing open-heart surgery. Their heart needs to be temporarily stopped, but their blood still needs to circulate and receive oxygen. This specialist operates the machine that temporarily takes over the functions of the heart and lungs.
What is a perfusionist?