Anatomy
This organ pumps blood throughout the body.
What is the heart?
This imaging technology uses high-frequency sound waves and no radiation to visualize soft tissues.
What is an ultrasound?
This health professional fills prescriptions and provides medication counseling.
What is a pharmacist?
This term refers to preventable differences in health outcomes between different groups of people.
What are health disparities?
This federal law protects patients’ medical information and sets national standards for privacy in healthcare settings.
What is HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act)?
The smallest functional unit of the kidney, responsible for filtering blood.
What is the nephron?
This device measures oxygen saturation noninvasively using light absorption.
What is a pulse oximeter?
This allied health professional helps patients regain movement after injury or surgery.
What is a physical therapist?
This concept describes how conditions like housing, education, income, and neighborhood environment affect a person’s health outcomes.
What are social determinants of health?
This 2010 U.S. health reform law expanded Medicaid in many states and created health insurance marketplaces.
What is the Affordable Care Act?
This part of the brain controls balance and coordination
What is the cerebellum?
This imaging modality uses strong magnetic fields and radio waves to produce detailed soft tissue images.
What is an MRI?
This specialist focuses on diagnosing and treating gum disease.
What is a periodontist?
In the United States, Black women are approximately 2–3 times more likely than white women to die from complications related to this life event.
What is pregnancy/childbirth (maternal mortality)?
This landmark 1973 Supreme Court case legalized abortion nationwide before being overturned in 2022.
What is Roe v. Wade?
These cells carry oxygen from the lungs to tissues.
What are red blood cells (erythrocytes)?
This technology uses ionizing radiation and rotating detectors to create cross-sectional images of the body.
What is a CT scan?
The specialty that focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of cancer.
What is oncology?
During the COVID-19 pandemic, limited access to reliable internet made it harder for some communities to access this form of remote medical care.
What is telemedicine?
This federal civil rights law prohibits discrimination based on race, color, or national origin in programs receiving federal funding, including hospitals.
What is Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
This layer of skin contains hair follicles, sweat glands, and connective tissue.
What is the dermis?
During the COVID-19 pandemic, inaccuracies in this device disproportionately affected patients with darker skin tones.
What is a pulse oximeter?
This type of physician practices both general medicine and surgery in rural or underserved areas.
What is a family medicine or general practitioner?
PSYCH100 Refresh: This type of bias occurs unconsciously and can influence clinical decision-making, even when providers believe they are being fair.
What is implicit bias?
This model of maternal care, often led by trained non-physician birth professionals, has been associated with improved outcomes and reduced intervention rates in low-risk pregnancies.
What is midwifery care (or certified nurse midwife care)?