Name that Clinical Specialty
This specialty can manage everything from newborn jaundice and asthma to eating disorders, congenital heart disease, and adolescent mental health.
What is Pediatrics?
The brilliant diagnostician who uses a cane for mobility
Who is Dr. Gregory House?
Make sure the baby is in own space (crib, pack & play, etc), flat/firm mattress, fitted sheet only. Avoid smoke exposure. No bumpers, pillows, stuffed animals. Swaddle in light blanket only in newborn period. Pacifiers and fan in room have been shown to reduce risk of SIDS. Avoid cosleeping.
He discovered penicillin after noticing mold inhibiting bacterial growth.
Who is Dr. Alexander Fleming?
These doctors are experts in interpreting imaging.
What is Radiologist?
This doctor is known for saying, "it's a beautiful day to save lives."
Who is Dr. Derek Shepherd?
A 14 day old newborn presents with fever to 101.5.
What is your initial lab evaluation?
Answer must include: blood, urine and CSF cultures
May also list: CBC, CMP, UA, CSF glucose/protein/cell count, PCR panels (respiratory, meningitis/encephalitis)
He developed the polio vaccine.
Who is Dr. Jonas Salk?
This is who you call when you need an appendectomy at 2am.
What is General Surgery?
Neil Patrick Harris played this teenage physician who began practicing medicine while still in high school.
Who is Dougie Houser?
A 3-year-old in your ER presents after falling from a stool and hitting his head. The parents want to know if he needs a CT. What is the specific name of the algorithm you can use to answer their question?
This scientist's X-ray diffraction images were critical to determining the structure of DNA, although she did not share in the Nobel Prize awarded for the discovery.
This specialty knows more about antibiotics than anyone else and everyone loves to "curbside" them.
What is Infectious Diseases?
On ER, Noah Wyle played this doctor, the idealistic medical student who became an attending physician.
Who is Dr. John Carter?
Name the diagnostic criteria for a classic case of Kawasaki Disease.
Conjunctivitis (nonexudative, limbic sparing)
Rash
Adenopathy (at least one >1.5cm cervical LN)
Strawberry tongue (mucositis)
Hand/foot desquamation (typically periungual, 2-3 weeks later)
FEVER X 5+ days!
She won Nobel Prizes in both Physics and Chemistry, becoming the first person to win Nobel Prizes in two different scientific fields.
Who is Marie Curie?
This subspecialty measures their patients in grams.
Noah Wyle returned to the emergency department in 2025 to star as this doctor.
Who is Dr. Michael "Robby" Robinavitch?
A 3-month-old with RSV bronchiolitis presents to your ER. List 3 interventions that are NOT shown to be helpful in the literature.
- Albuterol
- CXR
- Systemic steroids
- Antibiotics
- Chest physiotherapy
She was the first woman to practice medicine in New Orleans.
Who is Dr. Emma Wakefield-Paillet (1898)?