Medical Pop Culture
This fictional medical drama features, Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital, and it’s famous for characters like Meredith Grey and McDreamy
What is Grey’s Anatomy?
This is the standard number of year a student typically spends in medical school before graduating with the MD, DDS, DMD, or DO degree
What is four years?
What is Avogadro‘s number?
What is 6.022x10^23
What is often called the ”powerhouse of the cell”?
What is the mitochondria?
This essential tool is used by doctors and nurses to hear a patient’s heart and lungs
What is a stethoscope?
This upcoming medical drama known for following a 15 hour shift each season shares its name with the abbreviated nickname of a major Pennsylvania city
What is The Pitt?
This is the standardized test Pre-Med students must take to attend medical school
What is the MCAT?
This subatomic particle carries a negative charge and orbits the nucleus of an atom.
What is an electron?
What is the largest organ of the human body?
What is the skin?
In a hospital setting if a code blue is called over the intercom. It means a patient is experiencing this emergency.
What is cardiac arrest?
In the show, Grey’s Anatomy, Meredith Gray famously refers to this person as “my person”
Who is Christina Yang?
These two common four letter degree titles are awarded to graduating dental school. Students both qualifying them to practice as general dentist.
What are DDS (doctor of dental surgery) and DMD (doctor of dental medicine)?
A solution with a pH value of exactly 7 is considered to have this status.
What is neutral?
What is the largest bone in the human body?
What is the femur?
This diagnostic imaging technique uses strong, magnetic field and radio waves to create detailed images of organs and tissues without using radiation
What is an MRI?
This iconic long running 90s medical drama launch George Clooney’s career as Dr. Doug Ross
What is ER?
This mandatory multi day event in March is when graduating medical students find out which residency program they have been paired with
What is match day?
What is the chemical symbol for the element Potassium, which is a vital electrolyte checked in basic metabolic blood panels.
What is K?
Humans have four different blood types, this specific blood type is known as the “universal donor”?
What is O-negative?
This term refers to the yellowish discoloration of the skin and eyes caused by high bilirubin levels
What is jaundice?
This AVC medical drama stars Freddie Highmore as Sean Murphy, a brilliant surgical resident with autism and Savant syndrome
What is the good doctor?
This traditional ceremony usually held at the start of the first year of medical school welcome student students into the medical profession by presenting them with their first clinical attire
What is the white coat ceremony?
This type of Chemical bond is formed when two atoms share a pair of electrons.
What is a covalent bond?
This term describes a solution that has the same solute concentration as the inside of a red blood cell, preventing it from shrinking or bursting.
What is isotonic?
This prefix means “fast” or “rapid” as seen in the term for a rapid heart rate
What is tachy-?