Health Careers
A medical doctor concerned with the physical, mental, and social health of children from birth to young adulthood
What is a Pediatrician?
An emergency lifesaving procedure performed when the heart stops beating by compressions
What is Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)?
What does the 'E' stand for in STEM?
What is Engineering?
The heart is part of what body system
What is the circulatory/cardiovascular system?
Scientist who is known for her discovery of radium and polonium, and her huge contribution to finding treatments for cancer
Who is Marie Curie?
Highly trained nurse that specialize in the primary and reproductive care for women and their children.
What is a Nurse Midwife?
A simple, safe, and effective way of protecting people against harmful diseases through injections
What is a vaccine?
Professional who focuses on advances in technology and medicine to develop new devices and equipment for improving human health
What is a biomedical engineer?
The tubes which carry blood from the heart to the rest of the body
What are the arteries?
An African American woman scientist and mathematician at NASA Mathematician who studied how to use geometry for space travel. She figured out the paths for the spacecraft to orbit (go around) Earth and to land on the Moon!
Who is Katherine Johnson?
Public health workers who investigate patterns and causes of disease and injury
What is Epidemiologist?
A procedure when a tube is placed into the windpipe (trachea) through the mouth or nose
What is Endotracheal intubation?
The hereditary/genetic material in humans and almost all other organisms
What is or deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)?
In this tube you will find the solids remaining, after food nutrients are absorbed into the blood stream
What is the large intestine?
The second African American woman to receive an M.D. degree in the United States
Who is Rebecca Cole?
Professional artist with extensive training in medicine, science, communication and media technology
What is a Medical Illustrator/animator?
A procedure that allows fluids and medications to flow into a vein in your arm or hand
What is an intravenous drip insertion (IV)?
The science concerned with developing and studying methods for collecting, analyzing, interpreting and presenting empirical data
What is statistics?
What is purpose of the skeletal system?
What is 'To provide structure, allow movement, and protect the bodies organs'?
English chemist who discovered that DNA has a double helix
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
Person who reviews the patient's file and translates everything from that file into universal codes required by insurance companies
What is a medical coder?
A device that records the electrical signal from your heart to check for different heart conditions
What is an electrocardiogram (EKG)?
A professional who applies mathematical analysis and the principles of computer science in order to design and develop computer software
What is a software engineer?
There are about 300 million of these in each lung
What is alveoli?
Canada's first female astronaut and the first neurologist in space
Who is Roberta Bondar?