PUBH 1001 EXAM 4 UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. MD
Answer:
Allopathic Medicine, Mainstream medical use of pharmacologically active agents or physical interventions
to treat or suppress symptoms or processes of disease
Question:
2. DO
Answer:
Osteopathic Medicine, Historically emphasized manipulation of joints and bones to diagnose and treat
illness, believing in human's innate capacity for self-healing.
Question:
3. DC
Answer:
Chiropractic Medicine, Focused on diagnosis and treatment of mechanical disorders of the musculoskeletal
system, especially the spine
Question:
4. DMD/DDS
Answer:
Dentist, Prevention and treatment of diseases and malformations of the teeth, gums, and oral cavity, and
the removal, correction, and replacement of decayed, damaged, or lost parts
Question:
5. primary care
Answer:
First contact providers who handle the majority of common problems for which patients seek care
Question:
6. secondary care
Answer:
Specialty care provided by clinicians who focus on a small number of organ systems or type of service
Question:
7. tertiary care
Answer:
Subspecialty care defined by type of institution is it delivered at and the type of problem addressed
Question:
8. patient contact
, Answer:
many, including ER/urgent care centers, specialists, nontraditional
Question:
9. comprehensive care
Answer:
Increase proportion of patient problems that are referred to specialists.
Question:
10. coordinated care
Answer:
Hospitalists and specialists provide care for inpatients and direct patient access to specialist
Question:
11. continuity
Answer:
Required or encouraged to change physicians/providers for insurance purposes
Question:
12. Caring
Answer:
Administrative entity without long-term individual relationship
Question:
13. community
Answer:
Long history of distant and—at times—contentious relationships between providers and community
Question:
14. Flexner report
Answer:
state licensure required
Question:
15. accreditation
Answer:
- A process of setting standards for educational and training institutions and enforcing these standards
using a regularly scheduled institutional self-study and an outside review
- Defines and enforces educational expectations
Question:
16. credentialing
Answer:
An individual, not the institution, is evaluated
- Defines specialties and subspecialties within a profession, Usually a prerequisite for licensure
-Process of verifying that an individual has the desired or required qualifications to practice a profession
-Often in the form of certification, where successful completion of formal exams leads to recognitio
CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. MD
Answer:
Allopathic Medicine, Mainstream medical use of pharmacologically active agents or physical interventions
to treat or suppress symptoms or processes of disease
Question:
2. DO
Answer:
Osteopathic Medicine, Historically emphasized manipulation of joints and bones to diagnose and treat
illness, believing in human's innate capacity for self-healing.
Question:
3. DC
Answer:
Chiropractic Medicine, Focused on diagnosis and treatment of mechanical disorders of the musculoskeletal
system, especially the spine
Question:
4. DMD/DDS
Answer:
Dentist, Prevention and treatment of diseases and malformations of the teeth, gums, and oral cavity, and
the removal, correction, and replacement of decayed, damaged, or lost parts
Question:
5. primary care
Answer:
First contact providers who handle the majority of common problems for which patients seek care
Question:
6. secondary care
Answer:
Specialty care provided by clinicians who focus on a small number of organ systems or type of service
Question:
7. tertiary care
Answer:
Subspecialty care defined by type of institution is it delivered at and the type of problem addressed
Question:
8. patient contact
, Answer:
many, including ER/urgent care centers, specialists, nontraditional
Question:
9. comprehensive care
Answer:
Increase proportion of patient problems that are referred to specialists.
Question:
10. coordinated care
Answer:
Hospitalists and specialists provide care for inpatients and direct patient access to specialist
Question:
11. continuity
Answer:
Required or encouraged to change physicians/providers for insurance purposes
Question:
12. Caring
Answer:
Administrative entity without long-term individual relationship
Question:
13. community
Answer:
Long history of distant and—at times—contentious relationships between providers and community
Question:
14. Flexner report
Answer:
state licensure required
Question:
15. accreditation
Answer:
- A process of setting standards for educational and training institutions and enforcing these standards
using a regularly scheduled institutional self-study and an outside review
- Defines and enforces educational expectations
Question:
16. credentialing
Answer:
An individual, not the institution, is evaluated
- Defines specialties and subspecialties within a profession, Usually a prerequisite for licensure
-Process of verifying that an individual has the desired or required qualifications to practice a profession
-Often in the form of certification, where successful completion of formal exams leads to recognitio
