Health Care CareersMedical Jeopardy

REMINDER; YOU CAN NOT BE EXEMPT FROM THE EXAM TWO WEEKS IN A ROW, but you get to use the jeopardy points on the exam to curve

your grade

1.Never slam your buttons

2.You can use your task sheet notes up to five points then put them away to go on.

3.Every team must have at least one point to continue for everyone (breaking the ice)

4.Don’t hit a button and THEN look up the answer

• Two colleges that issue Associates Degrees in the Houston/Fort Bend area

• Houston Community College and Wharton County Junior College

It is the science of motion of the body

• What is “kinesiology”?

• It is the science of how joints of the body work

• What is “biomechanics”?

• What a “geriatric periodontic oncologist” treats

• The main advantage of a private college vs. a state college

• Smaller class size

• The weakening of a body wall allowing internal organs to visibly protrude out

• What is a hernia? (remember the baby with the belly button bump? Take class notes)

• The fastest growing medical disease currently developing in the U.S.

• What is diabetes?

• A health care worker who deals with family divorce, abuse issues and other familial challenges

• What is a social worker? (MSW degree)

• The number of years a physical therapist must go to school beyond high school

• What is eight? (Doctor of PT)

• You earn an MD degree but want to practice advanced physical therapy. Name this new medical profession

• Physiatry

• You’ll see this famous home in Agra

• What is the Taj Mahal?

• Root canal would most likely be performed by this specialist

• What is an endodontist?

• A specialist who treats gum disease

• What is a periodontist?

• A medical specialist who measures you for contact lenses

• What is an optometrist? (OD)

• The degree associated with one who defends you in court

• What is a J.D.? (attorney/lawyer/ Juris Doctorate although law school is only 3 yrs))

• The type of surgeon you would consult for skin grafting

• What is a cosmetic/plastic surgeon? Secondarily, dermatologists if they are surgically trained.

• To reattach the nerves of your finger together after severing it, you would consult this type of surgeon

• What is a neurosurgeon?

He has had a “license to kill” and is a November Man currently.

• Pierce Brosnan

• You would like to deliver babies but don’t want to spend 11 years of training to become an Ob/Gyn; what career is for you?

• What is a midwife? (obstetrical nurse) having a BSN, RN and two year obstetric nursing residency ($90,000/yr. career)

• The difference in duties of an OT vs. a PT

• Occupational therapists train those with disabilities to learn to live independently and even get employable skills while physical therapists rehabilitate those suffering after trauma or surgery to better function physically

• He is the most famous pediatric neurosurgeon who just retired, will be running for president and is the subject of the HBO movie “Gifted Hands”

• Dr. Ben Carson

• One year of college training in a field will generally make you a __________in that field while two years of training will usually make you a ____________in that same field (usually at double the pay) while four years will make you a ___________in the field

• 1 year of college=aide or assistant

• 2 years of college=technician

• 4 years of college=technologist

• Example: medical, dental, veterinarian, radiology or lab… asset, technician or technologist

• Someone who takes risks to start a business, creates jobs and is their own boss is known as this

• What is an entrepreneur?

• Rehabilitation centers for post operative patients are probably staffed by these specialists

• What are physical therapists and perhaps, physiatrists (MD PT’s)?

• A children’s dentist

• Pedodontist

• He wrote the oath all physicians recite upon graduation

• Hippocrates; the father of western medicine

• She is the heiress to a hotel fortune and has a Chihuahua

• Who is Paris Hilton?

One of her biggest hits is titled “Love Story”

• Who is Taylor Swift?

• The president and founder of the Imperial Sugar Company

• Who was I.H. Kempner of Sugar Land?

• The Federal bureau charged with making workplaces safe

• OSHA (Occupational Safety Hazards Administration)

• If you like being a Cougar, you might want to continue your education at this university but you’ll be a Husky at this school

• What is the University of Houston and HBU

• Her big hit three years ago was “irreplaceable”

• Who is Rhianna?

• The only two nursing schools in or near Ft. Bend County

• What are HBU and Wharton Schools of Nursing (now in Sugar land on I-59 and University while HBU’s nursing school is on I-59 and Beechnut at the university)

• The two main courses one must have in order to apply to nursing schools everywhere

• What are anatomy/physiology (8 credit hours AKA two semesters) and microbiology (4 credit hours or one semester)?

• He was Bourne to make these films

• Who is Matt Damon?

• The degree you would earn after nursing school if you finished college as well

• What is the BSN (Bachelors of Science in Nursing)?

• Two people who have lived in Never Never Land

• Who are Peter Pan and Michael Jackson?

• You have diabetes; you seek help from this kind of specialist

• What is an endocrinologist?

• The country where the marshmallow was invented

• Egypt

• Where the watermelon was first produced

• China

• If you had a kidney infection you might seek this type of specialist

• What is a nephrologist or urologist?

• An ear, nose and throat specialist is technically named this

• What is an otolaryngologist? (that’s why we call them “ENT’s”

• If you had breast cancer, you might seek therapy from this type of specialist

• What is an oncologist? (they administer chemotherapy and radiation therapy to kill the cancer)

• If you need a biopsy to determine if you have a cancer, to whom will the sample be sent for determination?

• The pathologist

• If you needed lung surgery, you’d seek this type of surgeon

• What is a thoracic surgeon AKA pulmonary surgeon?

• You need to consult a physician about birth control and get a breast exam; what specialist handles women only?

• OB/GYN known as “obstetrician/gynecologist”

• The only medical man known in rap music

• Who is Dr. Dre?

• You get an MBA degree but want to work in the medical field; this career is for you

• What is Hospital/healthcare Administration (VP’s and CEO’s of hospitals and medical companies)?

• You like to work with your hands and make false teeth. This career is for you

• What is prosthodontics? Either as a DDS in an office or as a dental technician in a lab

• This technical specialist keeps you alive when you are having heart surgery and your heart has to be stopped to be corrected by the surgeons. This tech. keeps you alive

• What is a perfusionist?

• This technician specializes in drawing blood from you for blood tests

• What is a phlebotomist? (phlebos=vein and otomy=to put a hole in)

• If you have gingivitis, you need to seek this specialist

• What is a periodontist?

• Nicolle’s husband is also known as a famous country and western singer of the year even though he’s an Aussie from “down under”

• Who is Keith Urban?

• She was a Tomb Raider after bearing Brad’s kids

• Who is Angline Jolie?

• A D.C. indicates this doctor has this skill

• What is a chiropractor, they do spinal adjusting, disease prevention, pain care?

• You need contact lenses; you would seek this specialist

• What is an optometrist? (O.D.)

• You need an anti-depressant like Prozac for depression. Who you going to call?

• What is a psychiatrist?

• You need to get off of a drug addiction. What type of facility would you seek?

• Rehabilitation centers

This type of nurse is not quite an RN but has one year of nursing training and is still

licensed by the state

• What is an LVN? (also known as an LPN, licensed practical or licensed vocation nurses; do more basic nursing duties like patient hygiene, but can earn money to continue their nursing education and get their RN as they work often paid for by the hospital they work at part time in)

• Medical research is generally done by doctors not with MD’s but this degree

• What is a Ph.D? or a Master’s if you have 30 credit hours only post-grad. PhD has 60 credit hours post-grad

• You’ll need this number of credits more to get a B.S. if you have an A.S.already

• What is 60?

• You like to work like a doctor, earn a good living in a doctor’s office but are only willing to do six years of study. What career are you seeking?

• What is a Physician’s Assistant? (P.A.) also a nurse practitioner is the same license

• A hemorrhoid sufferer seeks this professional’s care

• What is a proctologist?

• You need Lasik surgery. Who are you going to call?

• An ophthalmologist

• You like sirens, adrenaline rushes and saving lives but only want a technical training program. What would be suitable for you?

• EMT 1, EMT 2 or EMT 3(paramedic) program levels of training. 1 yr., 2 yrs. or three yrs. for paramedic

• You like treating folks with acid reflux; what’s your specialty?

• What is a gastroenterologist?

• Their goal is to rehabilitate you so that you may live independently

• What is an OT? Occupational therapist

• You don’t like injections, blood and drugs for treatment but want to relieve a patient’s pain and use preventative medicine and give safe relief of aches. What do you want to study?

• What is a chiropractor?

• You specialize in the treatment of the elderly

• What is a geriatrician or gerontologist?

• You want a technical career which helps people with certain pulmonary diseases get rehabilitated especially after surgery and if they are smokers

• What is a respiratory therapist? (2 yr. training program)

• What does JFK, Bush, Logan, La Guardia and O’Hare all have in common

• They are all the names of U.S. airports?

• You’re in a city where the Mississippi meets the Gulf of Mexico. Where are you?

• New Orleans

• They used to be called apothecaries

• What is a pharmacy?

• You like physics and high tech,expensive devices for imaging the interior of patients’ bodies; what field should you pursue?

• Radiology and imaging specialist

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• An M.D. doctor who specializes in physical therapy but is not a physical therapist

• What is a physiatrist?

• You do autopsies and biopsies

• What is a pathologist? (pathos=disease)

• Orville and Wilbur became famous at this South Carolina beach for inventing this device

• The Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk invented the first working airplane

• The female lead singer of the Black Eyed Peas

• Who is Fergie?

• The are known as ENT’s for short

• Otolaryngologists AKA “ear, nose and throat specialists i.e. ENT’s”

• The difference between a D.O. and an O.D.

• A D.O. is a doctor of Osteopathy, essentially the same as an M.D.and is a general medical doctor, while an O.D. is an optometric doctor, to measure your eyes to make glasses and contact lenses

• It’s where you find the worm on the line when you’re fishing

• THE END

• Your examination will be made up of 1/3 from the task sheet, 1/3 from class slides and jeopardy slides and 1/3 from your class notes. Remember to write the number of jeopardy points you got (NOT THE CLASS RING NUMBER) on your scantron tomorrow above your name to add these points to your total exam grade