COPE HEALTH SCHOLARS LATEST EXAMS ACTUAL
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Atherosclerosis - ✔✔Disease in which fatty material is deposited on the walls of the
arteries
✔✔MI - ✔✔Myocardial infarction: heart attack; loss of blood supply to the heart
✔✔CHF - ✔✔Congestive heart failure: failure of the heart to pump blood effectively
✔✔Stroke - ✔✔Brain attack; loss of blood supply to the brain
✔✔Shock - ✔✔decreased perfusion of blood to body tissues
✔✔Symptoms of myocardial infarction - ✔✔Severe retrosternal pain
Pain in left arm or jaw
Dyspnea (labored breathing)
Diaphoresis (sweating)
Pressure, heaviness, tightness
Nausea, vomiting
✔✔Risk factors for myocardial infarction - ✔✔Smoking, atherosclerosis, hypertension,
hyperlipidemia
, ✔✔Complications from myocardial infarction - ✔✔Arrhythmias, CHF, stroke
✔✔Pneumonia - ✔✔inflammation of the lungs by any microorganism
✔✔Tuberculosis - ✔✔infectious disease caused by mycobacterium tuberculosis
✔✔Asthma - ✔✔Chronic condition characterized by airway inflammation,
bronchoconstriction, and hypersecretion of mucus
✔✔COPD - ✔✔chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. due to a variety of pulmonary
conditions
✔✔Emphysema - ✔✔Chronic expiratory airflow obstruction accompanied by permanent
enlargement of the airspace (alveoli); subset of COPD
✔✔Neoplasia - ✔✔uncontrolled, disorderly proliferation of cells
✔✔Benign neoplasia - ✔✔does not metastasize; can still be harmful (e.g. compress
adjacent tissues)
✔✔Malignant neoplasia - ✔✔capable of invasion and metastasis; invasion = spread into
adjacent areas; metastasis = implantation into non-adjacent sites
✔✔Patient history - ✔✔chief complaint, history of present illness, past medical history
✔✔CC - ✔✔Chief complaint: why is the patient currently seeking medical attention
✔✔HPI - ✔✔history of present illness, detailed chronological account of the symptoms
which prompted the patient to seek care; location, quality, quantity, severity, timing,
aggravating/relieving factors
✔✔PMH - ✔✔"past medical history"
adult and childhood illnesses, injuries, hospitalizations, surgeries, immunizations,
screening tests and psychiatric visits
✔✔Stakeholders in US healthcare system - ✔✔Patients (care, goods)
Providers
Regulators (policy, compliance)
Payers (government, private, uninsured)
Community social determinants of health (SDOH)
✔✔social determinants of health - ✔✔Education, screening, public health, food,
transportation, medication
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Atherosclerosis - ✔✔Disease in which fatty material is deposited on the walls of the
arteries
✔✔MI - ✔✔Myocardial infarction: heart attack; loss of blood supply to the heart
✔✔CHF - ✔✔Congestive heart failure: failure of the heart to pump blood effectively
✔✔Stroke - ✔✔Brain attack; loss of blood supply to the brain
✔✔Shock - ✔✔decreased perfusion of blood to body tissues
✔✔Symptoms of myocardial infarction - ✔✔Severe retrosternal pain
Pain in left arm or jaw
Dyspnea (labored breathing)
Diaphoresis (sweating)
Pressure, heaviness, tightness
Nausea, vomiting
✔✔Risk factors for myocardial infarction - ✔✔Smoking, atherosclerosis, hypertension,
hyperlipidemia
, ✔✔Complications from myocardial infarction - ✔✔Arrhythmias, CHF, stroke
✔✔Pneumonia - ✔✔inflammation of the lungs by any microorganism
✔✔Tuberculosis - ✔✔infectious disease caused by mycobacterium tuberculosis
✔✔Asthma - ✔✔Chronic condition characterized by airway inflammation,
bronchoconstriction, and hypersecretion of mucus
✔✔COPD - ✔✔chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. due to a variety of pulmonary
conditions
✔✔Emphysema - ✔✔Chronic expiratory airflow obstruction accompanied by permanent
enlargement of the airspace (alveoli); subset of COPD
✔✔Neoplasia - ✔✔uncontrolled, disorderly proliferation of cells
✔✔Benign neoplasia - ✔✔does not metastasize; can still be harmful (e.g. compress
adjacent tissues)
✔✔Malignant neoplasia - ✔✔capable of invasion and metastasis; invasion = spread into
adjacent areas; metastasis = implantation into non-adjacent sites
✔✔Patient history - ✔✔chief complaint, history of present illness, past medical history
✔✔CC - ✔✔Chief complaint: why is the patient currently seeking medical attention
✔✔HPI - ✔✔history of present illness, detailed chronological account of the symptoms
which prompted the patient to seek care; location, quality, quantity, severity, timing,
aggravating/relieving factors
✔✔PMH - ✔✔"past medical history"
adult and childhood illnesses, injuries, hospitalizations, surgeries, immunizations,
screening tests and psychiatric visits
✔✔Stakeholders in US healthcare system - ✔✔Patients (care, goods)
Providers
Regulators (policy, compliance)
Payers (government, private, uninsured)
Community social determinants of health (SDOH)
✔✔social determinants of health - ✔✔Education, screening, public health, food,
transportation, medication
