QUIZ #1: Define these medical and health care acronyms:

1. NOTES: Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery, a new surgical approach that removes elements through natural body cavities, eliminating the need for incisions.
2. GPP: Good Publication Practice, guidelines designed for pharmaceutical companies and other organizations that sponsor clinical trials; these guidelines provide recommendations for how these entities should create industry-sponsored publications for biomedical journals; you can read these guidelines here:  http://www.gpp-guidelines.org/
3. ROM: Range Of Motion, the degree to which your joints can move.
4. MMA: Medicare Modernization Act, passed in October 2003, this legislation impacted the payment rate for physicians.
5. UNOS: United Network of Organ Sharing, the entity that manages the organ-transplant system in the United States.

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QUIZ #2: Correct the spelling of the underlined word in each of the following sentences:

Incorrect:

1. The podiatrist removed a callous from the sole of my foot.
2. The slide show complimented the doctor’s presentation.
3. The tumor was made up of discreet cells.
4. My brother has a fractured lumbar disc.
5. The doctor advised me to follow a strict diet and exercise regime to reduce my cholesterol levels.

 Correct:

1. callus
2. complemented
3. discrete
4. disk
5. regimen

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QUIZ #3: Identify these body systems:

1. Digestive System: This system is concerned with how an individual processes food.
2. Integumentary system: This system provides support and protection, regulates temperature, and acts as a sense organ.
3. Skeletal system: This system provides structural support and protection, and makes red blood cells.

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QUIZ #4: Match the resource with its description:

1. PSNet: Gateway to the latest news and resources for improving patient safety and preventing medical errors.
2. MMWR: Compilation of provisional national health surveillance data.
3. CHAIN: Timely and practical information on emerging issues surrounding drugs, devices, and biologic products.
4. WebM&M: Internet-based journal featuring patient safety lessons developed from medical errors that occurred to actual patients.

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QUIZ #5: Match the phases of drug development with their descriptions:

1. Phase 1: Trials in this phase are usually conducted in disease-free healthy volunteers to determine how a drug is metabolized and excreted from the body.
2. Phase 4: Trials in this phase are postmarketing trials to further evaluate a drug’s efficacy and safety.
3. Preclinical: Animals are the test subjects for trials in this phase of drug development.
4. Phase 3: These trials often enroll large numbers of patients to gather more information about drug safety and efficacy, and to study different drug disease, to examine the drug’s effects on different populations, and to evaluate drug combinations.
5. Phase 2: Trials in this phase focus on determining whether the study drug works in people with a certain disease or condition.

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QUIZ #6: Identify the sentences that are written incorrectly and explain why.

1. INCORRECT: Conclusions about the results will need to be made. written in passive voice. A better option would be, “You will need to make conclusions about the results.”
2. CORRECT: The investigators collected data.
3. INCORRECT: The results of this study provide data, which support the efficacy of the study drug. “which” is used incorrectly. The correct version is, “The results of this study provide data that support the efficacy of the study drug.”
4. INCORRECT: The data appears in Appendix 2. data is a plural noun that requires a plural verb. The correct version is, “The data appear in Appendix 2.”

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QUIZ #7: Identify these medical specialty society acronyms.

1. AAFP —American Academy of Family Physicians
2. AACU—American Association of Clinical Urologists
3. ASA—American Society of Anesthesiologists
4. RSNA—Radiological Society of North America

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QUIZ #8: Match each word below with its correct definition.

   1. Idiopathic: To have no apparent cause or etiology.
   2. Iatrogenic: To be the result of a health care intervention.

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