Chapter 07 Health Care USA Understanding Its Organization and Delivery 8th Edition

Chapter 07 Health Care USA Understanding Its Organization and Delivery 8th Edition

Complete Chapter Questions With Answers

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Multiple Choice

1. Health care system changes, including advancing technology, will likely result in new, more highly specialized health occupations. Which of the following is not one of the expected effects of this development?:

1. a reduction of providers’ flexibility to develop more efficient staffing patterns
2. increased personnel costs
3. increasing challenges of small and rural providers in retaining specialty-trained personnel
4. hospitals’ resistance to employing multi-skilled personnel

Ans.: D

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2. States try to protect the public from incompetent care by licensing certain health professions. Certification differs from licensing, in that certification:

1. only recognizes special education or training
2. does not assure continuing competency
3. may not examine the important competencies
4. allows people to engage in activities that would otherwise be illegal

Ans.:  A

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3. A physician residency training program is best described as:

1. a program enabling medical school graduates to become familiar with a population’s needs in a specific geographic area
2. an accredited training program of at least 3 years post-medical school, that prepares physicians to practice in a medical specialty
3. specialized training in the business operations of a medical practice
4. the first opportunity for medical students to have actual contact with patients

Ans.:  B

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4. Each year approximately 6,000 international medical graduates (IMGs) enter the U.S. to practice. IMGs are vitally important to the health care delivery system because they:

1. receive education superior to that of most U.S. medical students
2. they are willing to work for less compensation than U.S. physicians
3. they fill a shortfall in the number of residents required by U.S. hospitals
4. are more likely to engage in primary care than their U.S. counterparts who prefer specialty medicine.

Ans.: C