Healthcare Interpreter Written Exam (CCHI CoreCHI / NBCMI) — Practice
Healthcare Terminology: practice questions
Our Healthcare interpreter (CoreCHI / NBCMI) bank has 71 questions on this topic. Here are 5 of them with answers; the full mock exam draws from every topic, like the real one.
Question 1
What is 'vertigo'?
- Fear of heights
- Fainting from a sudden drop in blood pressure
- Ringing in the ears
- A feeling that you or the room is spinning
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D. A feeling that you or the room is spinning — Vertigo is a spinning sensation, often from inner ear problems.
Question 2
In mental health, what is a 'hallucination'?
- A fixed false belief
- Seeing, hearing or sensing something that is not there
- A sudden, intense fear without any clear cause
- Forgetting recent events while remembering older ones
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B. Seeing, hearing or sensing something that is not there — Hallucinations are perceptions without a real stimulus; delusions are fixed false beliefs.
Question 3
What is a 'sprain'?
- A broken bone
- A pulled muscle only
- A bruise on the skin over a joint
- A stretched or torn ligament
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D. A stretched or torn ligament — A sprain injures a ligament; a strain injures a muscle or tendon.
Question 4
What is 'gestational diabetes'?
- Diabetes caused by eating sugar
- Diabetes that starts in childhood
- Diabetes that develops during pregnancy
- Diabetes caused by a kidney problem that affects sugar levels
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C. Diabetes that develops during pregnancy — Gestational diabetes develops during pregnancy in people who did not have diabetes before.
Question 5
What is an 'ultrasound'?
- An imaging test that uses sound waves
- An imaging test that uses low-dose radiation
- A blood test for pregnancy
- A test of hearing
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A. An imaging test that uses sound waves — Ultrasound uses high-frequency sound waves to create images, for example of a fetus.