MCAT
MCAT is the abbreviation for this standardized test.
What is Medical College Admission Test?
This plague in the 1300s caused 50% of the European population to perish, spread by fleas and rats carrying Yersenia pestis.
What is the Bubonic Plague or Black Death?
This organ is the largest organ in the human body.
What is the skin?
A prerequisite class required for medical school admission. (Hint: There's more than one correct answer)
What is General Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Biochemistry, Physics, Microbiology, Genetics, Anatomy and Physiology?
The prefix for the medical term for the heart.
What is cardi/o?
This score is the highest one can get from taking the MCAT.
What is 528?
Did you know that Ancient Egyptian Pharaohs were fat? Despite their slim and striking depictions in artwork, they ate a high-carb diet of beer, wine, honey, sugar, and bread. Examinations of their mummies have shown that many of them suffered from obesity, heart disease, and this other increasingly common American disease.
What is diabetes mellitus?
The contracting and relaxation of this muscle allows the lungs to expand and contract.
What is the diaphragm?
The major required to apply for medical school.
What is it doesn't matter!
The prefix of the medical term for skin.
What is derm?
This section of the MCAT is the hardest/lowest scoring section.
What is CARS?
The world’s first wonder drug, ________, changed the course of medicine by enabling physicians to treat formerly severe and life-threatening illnesses caused by bacterial infection. Staphylococcus is its active bacterial agent.
What is Penicillin?
This area is where digestion begins.
What is the mouth?
This component of the medical school application involves letters written by people who can speak to the applicant's character for medical school.
What is letter of recommendation?
The suffix of the medical term for inflammation.
What is -itis?
The average MCAT score for students accepted into the University of Florida's medical school.
(Will give points for ±1)
What is 516?
HeLa cells, named after this Black woman, enabled huge advancements in cancer research in 1951 and are still used today, but her family never gave consent nor received compensation for the infinitely replicated cell line.
Who is Henrietta Lacks?
This number represents the number of vertebrae in the lumbar spine.
What is 5?
Section of the application where you write a short essay talking about yourself, your story, why you want to be a doctor, etc...
What is a personal statement?
The more commonly known term for a myocardial infarction.
What is a heart attack?
This was the first year that the MCAT was administered.
(±5 years points will be given)
What is 1928?
The pre-antibiotic treatment of this STI won the Nobel Prize in 1927. They would intentionally give patients malaria and then administer quinine to maintain a temperature high enough to kill the bacteria and keep the person alive. Hint: 8 letters
What is Syphilis?
The colloquial term for the gastrocnemius muscle.
What is the calf muscle?
The two most important aspects of your medical school application.
What is GPA and MCAT score?
The scientific name for the funny bone.
What is the ulnar nerve?