Know Your Body
This organ is responsible for pumping blood throughout the body.
What is the heart?
A patient has a runny nose, sneezing, sore throat, and mild cough. This common viral illness is the likely diagnosis.
What is the common cold?
This physician specializes in caring for infants, children, and adolescents.
Who is a pediatrician?
After graduating from medical school, new physicians enter this stage of supervised clinical training to specialize in a field of medicine.
What is residency?
This medical invention allows physicians to listen to a patient's heart and lung sounds.
What is the stethoscope?
This is the largest organ of the human body.
What is the skin?
A patient experiences wheezing, shortness of breath, and episodes of airway narrowing, often triggered by allergens or exercise.
What is asthma?
This physician treats conditions affecting the skin, hair, and nails.
Who is a dermatologist?
After completing residency, a physician may pursue this additional training to specialize further in an area such as cardiology, oncology, or pediatric surgery.
What is a fellowship?
Alexander Fleming is credited with discovering this antibiotic in 1928.
What is penicillin?
These tiny air sacs in the lungs are where oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged.
What are the alveoli?
A patient has excessive thirst, frequent urination, and elevated blood glucose. These symptoms suggest this metabolic disease.
What is diabetes mellitus?
A patient has a seizure and is referred to a specialist who diagnoses and treats disorders of the brain and nervous system.
Who is a neurologist?
This centralized application service, operated by the AAMC, is used by most MD-granting medical schools in the United States.
What is AMCAS?
This hormone, first used to treat a patient in 1922, transformed the treatment of type 1 diabetes.
What is insulin?
This region of the brain coordinates balance, posture, and voluntary movement.
What is the cerebellum?
A patient experiences abdominal pain that migrates from around the belly button to the lower right abdomen, accompanied by fever and nausea.
What is appendicitis?
This physician is responsible for administering anesthesia, monitoring vital signs, and managing pain during surgery.
Who is an anesthesiologist?
This United States Medical Licensing Examination, which became pass/fail in 2022, primarily assesses foundational medical sciences and their application to clinical medicine.
What is USMLE Step 1?
Developed by Kary Mullis in the 1980s, this laboratory technique allows scientists to make millions of copies of a specific DNA segment and is widely used in genetic testing and infectious disease diagnosis.
What is PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction)?
This functional unit of the kidney contains a glomerulus and tubules and is responsible for filtering blood and forming urine.
What is the nephron?
A patient presents with fever, headache, neck stiffness, and sensitivity to light. Physicians suspect inflammation of the membranes surrounding the brain and spinal cord.
What is meningitis?
This physician frequently works behind the scenes, examining tissue biopsies, cells, and laboratory specimens to diagnose diseases.
Who is a pathologist?
During Match Week, eligible residency applicants who do not initially match can apply for unfilled residency positions through this process, commonly known by a four-letter acronym.
What is SOAP (Supplemental Offer and Acceptance Program)?
For years, stomach ulcers were widely blamed on stress and spicy foods. However, a groundbreaking discovery revealed that many ulcers are actually caused by this spiral-shaped bacterium.
What is Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori)?