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18 Medical quizzes and 180 Medical trivia questions.
1.
  Nurses Who Made a Difference    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
The field of nursing is an honorable one. Identify the following ten nurses who helped to shape the field of nursing.
Average, 10 Qns, nmerr, Jul 12 24
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Jul 12 24
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  Doctor Whodunit?   top quiz  
Match Quiz
 10 Qns
Match the individual to their groundbreaking contribution to the field of medicine.
Easier, 10 Qns, clevercatz, Feb 11 23
Easier
clevercatz gold member
Feb 11 23
618 plays
3.
  So You Want To Be An Emergency Medical Technician   top quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Some of these questions are also fire, general medical, or rescue type as they relate to the United States. Here are some questions based on my knowledge.
Easier, 10 Qns, iamemt7890, Sep 20 22
Easier
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Sep 20 22
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4.
  Housecalls   top quiz  
Match Quiz
 10 Qns
Match the doctor to the 'speciality'.
Easier, 10 Qns, nyirene330, Jul 30 16
Easier
nyirene330
1529 plays
5.
  Phlebotomists: We Want Your Blood!   great trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
If you've ever had blood drawn for lab tests, you've probably had some contact with a phlebotomist. This quiz will give you some interesting information to think about the next time you see a needle approaching!
Average, 10 Qns, duchessjlh, May 24 14
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  Nursing Assistants    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Let's pretend that you are a nursing assistant in a nursing home. What would you do here?
Average, 10 Qns, morrow, Jan 11 16
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morrow
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7.
  Doctor(s), Who ...   popular trivia quiz  
Match Quiz
 10 Qns
Doctors perform many wonderful tasks to maintain the health of humans and other animals. This is a match quiz describing what various doctors fix.
Very Easy, 10 Qns, workisboring, Jun 03 16
Very Easy
workisboring gold member
1693 plays
8.
  What Type of Veterinarian Do You Want To Be?   popular trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Veterinary medicine has many specialties - because veterinarians must treat more than one species! This quiz will introduce you to some of the types of veterinary specialties that are recognized by the American Veterinary Medical Association.
Easier, 10 Qns, celvet, Oct 24 18
Easier
celvet
Oct 24 18
940 plays
9.
  Medical Transcription Knowledge   popular trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
This quiz tests your knowledge of medical transcription, medical terminology, and proper English grammar and punctuation.
Average, 10 Qns, adp0811, Jun 20 17
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9759 plays
10.
  Take Two And Call Me Tomorrow   great trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
This is a quiz about some of the most famous doctors and some of the breakthroughs in medicine they were responsible for. Good luck.
Average, 10 Qns, RAgamer51, Jan 17 16
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trivia question Quick Question
Mass media was first used in the 1980s to educate the public about sex, sexuality and sexual problems by Doctor Whom?

From Quiz "Doctor Whom?"




11.
  Legendary Physicians   popular trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
These people have all played a part in medicine as we know it today. See how much you know about these medical legends.
Very Easy, 10 Qns, bradez, May 29 20
Very Easy
bradez gold member
May 29 20
767 plays
12.
  You: The Emergency Medical Technician   top quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
You have decided to get over your fear of blood & you figure the best way is to jump right in & get to it. You call up your local volunteer first aid squad & sit down with a certified Emergency Medical Technician to see if you have what it takes.
Tough, 10 Qns, Pangea250, Oct 03 11
Tough
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2997 plays
13.
  Nursing 101 (United States)    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
I am a nursing student and I love it. So let's quiz you on some nursing basics!
Average, 10 Qns, XxLoriEllenxX, Dec 15 23
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Dec 15 23
2006 plays
14.
  So You Want to Be a Human Lab Rat?   great trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Are you willing to donate your body to science--while you are still alive? Do you get a thrill out of having your body fluids analyzed? If so, you may have what it takes to be a human lab rat. Take this quiz and find out.
Tough, 10 Qns, deputygary, Oct 12 07
Tough
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15.
  Just What the Doctor Ordered   popular trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
These are just a few of the people in the world we owe our lives to. Without them I would not be writing this quiz.
Average, 10 Qns, chris1162, Mar 07 21
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Mar 07 21
784 plays
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  Types of Doctors    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
This is a quiz of commonly known specialities that doctors can go into and some that are slightly more obscure.
Average, 10 Qns, veghead13, Jan 15 16
Average
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5581 plays
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  Doctor Whom?    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
This is a quiz on famous doctors. Thank you to LeoDaVinci for the Author Challenge.
Average, 10 Qns, patricck, Jul 25 16
Average
patricck gold member
676 plays
18.
  The Lady is a Doctor    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Quick! Call the doctor! Identify these famous female physicians from history.
Difficult, 10 Qns, Helene61, Feb 22 22
Difficult
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Feb 22 22
794 plays
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Medical Trivia Questions

1. Which Ancient Greek physician has a medical oath named after him? The oath states that a physician will treat a patient to the best of their ability amongst other ethical issues.

From Quiz
Legendary Physicians

Answer: Hippocrates

The Hippocratic Oath is still relevant to physicians today even though it was written over 2,000 years ago. It contains many ethical issues but the basic premise is that any physician will treat their patients to the best of their ability. Other than the oath, Hippocrates also founded the Hippocratic School of medicine and many of his ideas are still relevant today. He is known as the "Father of Medicine."

2. Who is considered to be the "Father of Western Medicine"?

From Quiz Just What the Doctor Ordered

Answer: Hippocrates

He has been credited as the "Father of Western Medicine" for his contributions in the field of medicine and is credited with creating the Hippocratic Oath.

3. This ancient Egyptian woman is referred to as 'Chief Physician' in a temple pyramid dating from 2700 BCE.

From Quiz The Lady is a Doctor

Answer: Merit Ptah

Merit Ptah (c.2700 BCE) was a physician in Ancient Egypt. Her image and name were inscribed in the 'Step Pyramid' at Saqqara. Her son, a high priest, referred to her a 'Chief Physician'. She is not to be confused with the wife of Ramose.

4. The first accurate description of the circulatory system and the properties of blood was done by Doctor Whom?

From Quiz Doctor Whom?

Answer: William Harvey

For a man born in 1578 in Folkestone, England, William Harvey did plenty of circulating of his own. He traveled through France and Germany before moving on to the University of Padua in Italy where he graduated as a Doctor of Medicine. He then returned to England and in the very same year also graduated as a Doctor of Medicine at Cambridge.

5. In the middle of the night, you are sent on a call to assist a victim of a stabbing to the chest. What is the most important question you need to have an answer to?

From Quiz You: The Emergency Medical Technician

Answer: Is the scene secure (i.e., police are present and in control at the scene)?

Your safety and the safety of your team is *the* most important thing. If you are injured or incapacitated, you will be of little help to the victim.

6. Joseph Lister was a British surgeon known for being a pioneer of anti-septic surgery. Which acid did he use to sterilise his surgical equipment?

From Quiz Legendary Physicians

Answer: Carbolic Acid

Lister hypothesised that using carbolic acid to sterilise his equipment would be beneficial after he observed that cows suffered no ill harm after grazing on fields that had been irrigated with carbolic acid. His theory and work resulted in lower numbers of patients suffering infections after operations and his work led the way in further surgical improvements that followed on from his work.

7. What famous "first" did Christiaan Barnard perform in 1967?

From Quiz Just What the Doctor Ordered

Answer: The first heart transplant

He performed the first heart transplant on a 54 year old man. It took nine hours with a team of thirty people to complete. The patient died 18 days later of pneumonia, not heart disease.

8. This Athenian woman dressed as a man in order to work as a physician in Ancient Greece.

From Quiz The Lady is a Doctor

Answer: Agnodike

Agnodike (c.350 BCE) worked in male clothing as a gynecologist and midwife. In order to be trained, she had to disguise herself as a man. Women were so neglected in Ancient Greece that many believe her story may be legend.

9. When you are caring for a patient, you must also care for the patient's friends and family, for example, by taking an interest in them.

From Quiz Nursing 101 (United States)

Answer: Yes

As nurses, we must take care of everyone including friends and family. After all, they are the patient's support system.

10. A successful vaccine against the crippling disease poliomyelitis was developed by Doctor Whom?

From Quiz Doctor Whom?

Answer: Jonas Salk

He refused to patent his vaccine because personal profit was less important to him than getting it distributed as widely as possible. Truly, a great man. How many researchers would do the same today as he did in 1955?

11. An ambulance arrives at a call. What is an aide's first priority?

From Quiz So You Want To Be An Emergency Medical Technician

Answer: Scene safety

The first step when arriving on any scene is scene safety. The lead on an ambulance is responsible for the crew, therefore all dangers on the scene must be surveyed and assessed. Panic is obviously a joke. I hope that no trained professional ever panics.

12. Christiaan Barnard, a famous South African surgeon was the first to perform what medical procedure?

From Quiz Take Two And Call Me Tomorrow

Answer: heart transplant

On December 3rd, 1967 Barnard, assisted by his brother, performed the surgery on a 55 year old patient named Louis Washkansky. The patient suffered from diabetes as well as incurable heart disease. The transplanted heart came from a woman who had died in a car accident. Although Washkansky died after 18 days due to pneumonia, the procedure was a major breakthrough in the world of medicine.

13. A patient comes in, and I seat her in a nice comfortable chair. As a phlebotomist, what is the very first thing I must do?

From Quiz Phlebotomists: We Want Your Blood!

Answer: Verify her identity

This is extremely important! When you have blood drawn, the phlebotomist should make sure you are the person listed on the lab label. This may include asking you for your last name and checking your date of birth. It isn't going to do you any good if your blood is labeled with another person's name, and it could do you a lot of harm.

14. A sound or murmur heard when listening to a patient's carotid artery is a carotid _______________.

From Quiz Medical Transcription Knowledge

Answer: bruit

Bruits can be heard on other parts of the body as well (abdominal bruit, femoral bruit).

15. Edward Jenner was another British scientist famous for developing vaccinations. Which disease did he make a vaccine for which dramatically reduced the incidence of the disease?

From Quiz Legendary Physicians

Answer: Smallpox

Jenner noticed that milkmaids generally were immune to the deadly disease smallpox. He therefore hypothesised that being infected with the disease cowpox would make you immune to smallpox. He injected a small boy with cowpox and then noticed that the boy, too, was immune to smallpox. Jenner's work was eventually accepted and the government started to issue the vaccine free of charge. Jenner's work paved the way to modern vaccination, a key way to control disease. (His method of testing this would nowadays be regarded as unethical).

16. Do you know what Henry Norman Bethune did?

From Quiz Just What the Doctor Ordered

Answer: Developed M.A.S.H. units

Bethune was a Canadian doctor and medical developer of M. A.S.H. (Mobile Army Surgical Hospital). He also developed a Mobile Blood Transfusion device during the Spanish Civil War.

17. This German woman was a philosopher, physician and natural healer. Among other things she wrote medicinal texts.

From Quiz The Lady is a Doctor

Answer: Hildegard of Bingen

Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) was a physician and studied many medicinal herbs. She was a visionary and healer with a well regarded reputation in healing arts. She wrote 'Physica', which was studied in universities during the Middle Ages. She is also well known as a theologian, mystic and composer. In 2012 she was named a Doctor of the Church by the Pope. To avoid misunderstanding, it should be pointed out that this is in recognition of her theology and mysticism and has nothing to do with being a physician.

18. As medical professionals, we must adhere to the HIPAA law? What does HIPAA mean? It's a law stating that you _______?

From Quiz Nursing 101 (United States)

Answer: must keep patient information confidential unless otherwise noted by the patient

You can only talk about the patient to the patient, and other hospital staff on a 'need-to-know' basis. Before giving information to anyone else must have permission from the patient. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 is what HIPPA stands for. Parents have juristition on the medical decisions for their kids until the kid is 16 years old. In the case of patients that arrive unconscious, their immediate family can be informed.

19. Phenol, formerly known as carbolic acid, was first used to sterilize surgical instruments and clean wounds by Doctor Whom?

From Quiz Doctor Whom?

Answer: Joseph Lister

Joseph Lister was the founder or one of the founders of antiseptic surgery. However the reason his name will be familiar to the average person today is because Listerine was named in his honor. Listerine was first produced as a surgical antiseptic in 1879, but didn't become a success until it was marketed as a cure for bad breath in the 1920s.

20. What is the definition of 'anatomy'?

From Quiz So You Want To Be An Emergency Medical Technician

Answer: Study of body structures

All Emergency Medical Technicians must have a basic knowledge of anatomy. For example, if an ambulance arrives on the scene with a patient who is complaining of lower right abdominal pain the EMT must know what organs are involved in that area. The appendix is located in the lower right lower abdominal quadrant. Therefore one possibility could be appendicitis (inflammation of the appendix).

21. On April 12, 1955 an American doctor from New York named Jonas Salk introduced a vaccine for what disease?

From Quiz Take Two And Call Me Tomorrow

Answer: polio

The vaccine was first tested on volunteer subjects in 1952. The success of those tests allowed Salk to introduce the vaccine to the world in 1955.

22. If one of your residents refuses to eat, you should do what?

From Quiz Nursing Assistants

Answer: Say, "I will bring something later if you want it."

They have the right to eat or not. It is also against the law to force someone to eat.

23. Frederick Banting was the brains behind the isolation of which hormone, important for controlling diabetes?

From Quiz Legendary Physicians

Answer: Insulin

Banting theorised that insulin could be extracted after reading other scientists' work and applying it to insulin. He conducted his work using the facilities of Dr JJR MacLeod and was assisted by Charles Best. For his work in the field, Banting was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1923. He shared half of his prize money with Best.

24. Charles H. Best co-discovered what?

From Quiz Just What the Doctor Ordered

Answer: Insulin

In 1921, he co-discovered insulin, and received the Nobel Prize in medicine, which he shared with Frederick Banting. They had discovered insulin jointly.

25. This ancient Greek physician wrote a book entitled "On the Diseases and Cures of Women" during the Golden Age of Greece.

From Quiz The Lady is a Doctor

Answer: Metrodora

Metrodora (c 200-400 BCE) was the author of the oldest known surviving medical text to have been written by a woman. Her skills were well regarded but she was kept from practicing medicine in male dominated Greece.

26. Mass media was first used in the 1980s to educate the public about sex, sexuality and sexual problems by Doctor Whom?

From Quiz Doctor Whom?

Answer: Ruth Westheimer

Perhaps the name Westheimer seems unfamiliar because so many people know her only as "Doctor Ruth". Not many people would know that she was trained as both a scout and a sharpshooter and was injured in the 1948 Israeli War of Independence.

27. A Russian physician by the name of Boris Yegorov has the distinction of being the first physician to accomplish what?

From Quiz Take Two And Call Me Tomorrow

Answer: first physician in outer space

Yegorov was chosen as part of a crew of cosmonauts on the Russian spacecraft Voskhod I. The spaceship launched on October 12, 1964 and besides having the first physician onboard, the mission was also the first to have more than one person onboard as well as the first without space suits. The mission was designed to beat the American Gemini program to that accomplishment.

28. As a nursing assistant, you notice a bruise on a patient, what you should do?

From Quiz Nursing Assistants

Answer: tell the nurse

Always tell the nurse. As a STNA, you are the main person in contact with them. Something as simple as a bruise could mean that there needs to be a change in their meds.

29. The trade name for a drug used to treat a patient with hypothyroidism would be _____________________.

From Quiz Medical Transcription Knowledge

Answer: Synthroid

Trade and brand names of medications are capitalized. Generic names of medications are typed in lower case.

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