This school is ranked No. 1 in the U.S. News ranking of the best medical schools for research
What is Harvard Unversity
100
A chronic (lifelong) disease marked by high levels of sugar in the blood
What is diabetes?
100
The discovery of this led to scientists Crick and Watson's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1962
What is DNA?
200
The largest organ in the human body
What is skin?
200
A doctor that diagnoses problems with the eye
What is an optometrist or ophthalmologist?
200
The OAT is a standardized exam by the Association of Schools and Colleges of Optometry (ASCO) for applicants seeking admission to an optometry program. OAT stands for
What is Optometry Admission Test
200
The virus of the recent swine flu influenza
What is H1N1?
200
A famous artist who was one of the first to examine the human body by dissecting dead bodies and creating detailed drawings
What is Leonardo da Vinci?
300
The body system that contains the spinal cord
What is the nervous system?
300
A doctor that diagnoses problems with the foot
What is a podiatrist?
300
Medical students attending these schools must take an additional 200 hours of training learning manipulation techniques of the musculoskeletal system.
What is osteopathic schools (DOs)
300
An itchy infection from the varicella zoster virus that causes rashes and occurs usually once during your lifetime
What is chicken pox?
300
This group of people suffered drastically in population during the colonial period because they were not immune to European diseases, such as smallpox
What is the Native Americans?
400
The body system where lactic acid fermentation occurs
What is the muscular system?
400
Doctor that diagnoses problems with the large intestine
What is a gastroenterologist?
400
There are only 30 schools or colleges of this medicine in the U.S. that are accredited or have accreditation pending and all of them are AAVMC members.
What is veterinary medicine
400
An inherited disorder, red blood cells contort shape. The cells die early, leaving a shortage of healthy red blood cells, and can block blood flow causing pain
What is Sickle Cell?
400
The medicine Alexander Fleming found in 1928 while conducting experiments with mold and bacteria
What is penicillin?
500
The four tissues in the human body
What are muscle, nervous, epithelial, connective?
500
A doctor that diagnoses problems with the bladder
What is an urologist?
500
This educational program was created in response to a perceived shortage and maldistribution of physicians and a plenitude of corpsmen were returning from the Vietnam War, who were well trained to address trauma and surgical conditions.
What is Physician Assistant program
500
A chronic, inflammatory autoimmune disorder that may affect the skin, joints, kidneys, and other organs, and develops arthritis
What is systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)/lupus?
500
Known as the Nation's Medical Research Agency, this federal institution was founded in 1887