Health ScienceObjective Test

Medical Law & Ethics

A 50-question test on U.S. medical law, professional ethics and bioethics, from consent and malpractice to end-of-life decisions.

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About this event

Medical Law and Ethics is a solo written test for the Secondary and Postsecondary/Collegiate divisions. Seventy percent of the test plan is split between the legal environment (state and federal regulation, consent, the legal system, liability, public duty) and the healthcare environment (physician-patient relationships, malpractice, medical records, workplace law, confidentiality, employment practices). The remaining questions cover basic definitions and bioethical issues such as scarce resources, genetic engineering, reproduction and end of life. Questions are written from three textbooks: Tamparo, Fremgen, and Ritter and Graham. The event is one round of 50 multiple-choice questions in 60 minutes with an essay tiebreaker.

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What to expect

60 minutes, 50 questions

You have 60 minutes for 50 questions written from the event's published test plan. Official format: 50-question test, 60 minutes, plus an essay tiebreaker.

Written from the test plan

Questions follow the event's published test plan, section by section, and are written from the listed reference texts. Practice questions here are drawn in the same proportions.

How you advance

How many advance from regionals to states and on to the International Leadership Conference (ILC) depends on your association's rules. Study the official test plan: it lists each section and its share of the test.

What's on the test

The Basics: Medical Law, Ethics and Bioethics · 5%The Legal Environment (state and federal regulations, consent, the legal system, professional liability, law for health professionals, public duty) · 35%The Health Care Environment (physician-patient relationships, malpractice, medical records, workplace law and ethics, cultural perspective, confidentiality, employment practices) · 35%Bioethical Issues (ethical and bioethical issues in medicine, allocation of scarce resources, genetic engineering, reproductive issues, end-of-life issues) · 25%

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