Q 01/05

What is the medical specialty focused on diagnosing and treating conditions of the skin, hair, and nails?

A) Dermatologist

B) Oncologist

C) Neurologist

D) Cardiologist

Answer · why

A) Dermatologist

A dermatologist is a physician who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the skin, hair, and nails.

Q 02/05

Which ancient Greek physician is widely regarded as the 'Father of Medicine'?

A) Galen

B) Aristotle

C) Dioscorides

D) Hippocrates

Answer · why

D) Hippocrates

Hippocrates gave medicine prognosis and clinical observation, and also humoral theory, which held sway for centuries before being discredited.

Q 03/05

A pulmonologist specialises in diseases of which part of the body?

A) Heart and blood vessels

B) Lungs and airways

C) Brain and nerves

D) Stomach and intestines

Answer · why

B) Lungs and airways

Pulmonologists are physicians who specialize in the respiratory system, including the lungs, airways, and related structures, diagnosing and treating ...

Q 04/05

In what year did Christiaan Barnard perform the first human-to-human heart transplant?

A) 1953

B) 1982

C) 1975

D) 1967

Answer · why

D) 1967

Barnard performed the first human-to-human heart transplant on 3 December 1967 in Cape Town, South Africa; the donor was Denise Darvall, a young woman...

Q 05/05

Which medical instrument, invented by René Laennec in 1816, is used for auscultation, listening to the body's internal sounds?

A) Stethoscope

B) Ophthalmoscope

C) Sphygmomanometer

D) Otoscope

Answer · why

A) Stethoscope

The stethoscope's name is Greek for 'chest' plus 'look'; Laennec's first was a rolled tube of paper, used to listen to heart, lungs and gut.