1. Arrange students into groups. Each group needs at least ONE person who has a mobile device.
2. If their phone camera doesn't automatically detect and decode QR codes, ask students to
4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.
1. Give each group a clipboard and a piece of paper so they can write down the decoded questions and their answers to them.
2. Explain to the students that the codes are hidden around the school. Each team will get ONE point for each question they correctly decode and copy down onto their sheet, and a further TWO points if they can then provide the correct answer and write this down underneath the question.
3. Away they go! The winner is the first team to return with the most correct answers in the time available. This could be within a lesson, or during a lunchbreak, or even over several days!
4. A detailed case study in how to set up a successful QR Scavenger Hunt using this tool can be found here.
Question | Answer |
1. True or False: Colpotomy is an incision into the vagina. | True | 2. Surgical laparoscopy always includes: | diagnostic laparoscopy | 3. For medical complications of pregnancy, the physician would report his additional professional services using codes from what section or subsection? | E/M | 4. Antepartum care includes: | initial and subsequent history, physical exams, recording of weight, blood pressures, fetal heart tones, and routine UA | 5. According to the text, vulvectomy codes are divided based on the ____ and extent of vulvar area removed during the procedure. | size | 6. This term describes an incision of the vagina to gain access to the peritoneal cul-de-sac to explore or to drain an abscess. | colpocentesis | 7. In which of the following categories would you locate a code for the removal of an IUD? | introduction | 8. Lysis of adhesions is performed on either the fallopian tubes or the: | ovaries | 9. You would expect to code a service for an amniocentesis using a code from the Female Genital System subsection and a code from the ____ section. | Radiology | 10. What Surgery subheading has only two codes? | Intersex Surgery | 11. Human somatic cells contain _____ chromosomes. | 46 | 12. The process by which an ovum is released from an ovary is called _____. | ovulation | 13. The breakdown in the lining of the endometrium occurs in the _____ stage of the menstrual cycle. | menstruation | 14. The male sex hormone is called _____. | testosterone | 15. A group of symptoms sometimes exhibited prior to the menstrual cycle is called _____. | premenstrual syndrome | 16. A male is considered to be sterile if he produces less than how many spermatozoa in one ml of seminal fluid? | 20 million | 17. A zygote is a(n) _____. | fertilized egg cell | 18. An important role of progesterone in the reproductive process is to _____. | maintain the growth and thickening of the endometrium | 19. During ejaculation, semen is expelled to the outside of the male body through the _____. | urethra | 20. When an ovum is fertilized outside the female’s body and then transferred to her uterus, this is called _____. | in vitro fertilization | 21. Vaginal yeast infections commonly occur as a result of a woman _____. | taking antibiotics | 22. During which stage of human development do the most dramatic changes take place? | Infancy | 23. During which stage of human development is it most likely that life changes will require emotional and social adjustments? | Older adulthood | 24. All living organisms must ____________________ to continue their species. | reproduce | 25. The primary sex organs of the female are the ____________________. | ovaries | 26. The primary sex organs of the male are the ____________________. | testes | 27. The most common form of cancer in males over the age of 50 is ____________________ cancer. | prostate | 28. The most common form of cancer in females, other than skin cancer, is ____________________ cancer. | breast | 29. ____________________ is the most common sexually transmitted disease in the United States. | Chlamydia | 30. What medical term refers to difficult childbirth or labor? | dystocia | 31. Postnatal means: | after birth. | 32. Excessive increase in the number of cells in a tissue or organ is called: | hyperplasia | 33. Progesterone is secreted by the: | ovaries | 34. The structure that transports sperm from the testes to the urethra is the: | vas deferens | 35. What is the gravest form of pregnancy-induced hypertension? | eclampsia | 36. How does the discharge associated with candidiasis appear? | curdy or cheese-like | 37. Gravida 2, para 1 denotes a woman who has had: | 2 pregnancies and 1 birth. | 38. Which organ surrounds the neck of the bladder and the urethra in a male? | prostate gland | 39. The presence of functional endometrial tissue in areas outside the uterus is called: | endometriosis | 40. What hormonal preparations are used to raise the sperm count in infertility cases? | gonadotropins | 41. The condition of improperly descended testicles is called: | cryptorchidism | 42. What is the medical term that refers to a primary sore of syphilis? | chancre | 43. What structure produces testosterone? | testis | 44. Another term for Cowper gland is: | bulbourethral gland. | 45. Multipara means: | woman who has delivered more than one viable offspring. | 46. The vaginal orifice is lubricated by secretions from the: | Bartholin glands. | 47. What is the medical term for menstrual pain and tension? | dysmenorrhea | 48. Which abbreviation indicates the procedure to widen the uterine cervix and scrape the endometrium? | D&C | 49. Which term describes a deficiency of spermatozoa in the semen? | oligospermia | 50. What term means stenosis or narrowing of the preputial orifice so that the foreskin cannot be retracted over the glans penis? | phimosis | 51. What is the congenital defect in which the male urethra opens on the upper side of the penis? | epispadias | 52. What medical term means premature separation of the placenta? | abruptio placentae |
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