ASSESS Your Underwriting Skills

Test Your Life Underwriting Knowledge Using Our Assessment Tool

Take the Full Assessment

Duration: up to 90 minutes

Description: How do your skills measure up? This comprehensive diagnostic tool consists of questions on 29 key topics that underwriters encounter daily.

Take the Teaser Assessment

Duration: up to 5 minutes

Description: Not ready to take the Full Assessment? Try our Teaser Assessment which includes one question from each of the 29 key topics that underwriters encounter daily.

Individual Assessments

Alcohol Use

Duration: up to 5 minutes

Description: How alcohol use disorders can vary in degrees from mild to life threatening.

Blood Pressure

Duration: up to 5 minutes

Description: How blood pressure affects and can be affected by other co-morbidities.

Blood Chemistry Profile

Duration: up to 5 minutes

Description: How to evaluate the blood chemistry profile (BCP) for mortality impact.

Build and Body Size

Duration: up to 5 minutes

Description: How build and body size can be a risk factor for many diseases.

Coronary Artery Disease

Duration: up to 5 minutes

Description: A look at the anatomy and physiology of the heart.

Diabetes

Duration: up to 5 minutes

Description: The causes of diabetes, how it is diagnosed and the treatment required.

Driving Risk

Duration: up to 5 minutes

Description: Underwriting tools are the best to evaluate risk related to driving behaviour.

Drug Use

Duration: up to 5 minutes

Description: Drug use, abuse and the significance of previous and/or current drug abuse for mortality.

Esophagus

Duration: up to 5 minutes

Description: The signs, symptoms and diagnostic techniques for certain digestive tract diseases and disorders.

Arrhythmias and Heart Blocks

Duration: up to 5 minutes

Description:The mortality impact of arrhythmias and heart blocks.

Colon

Duration: up to 5 minutes

Description:The signs, symptoms and diagnostic techniques for certain colon diseases and disorders.

Kidneys

Duration: up to 5 minutes

Description:The signs, symptoms and diagnostic techniques for certain colon diseases and disorders.

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Financial Underwriting

Duration: up to 5 minutes

Description: How financial underwriting helps the insurer monitor and control risks and protect the company’s portfolio.

Foreign Travel

Duration: up to 5 minutes

Description: Foreign travel and how it affects underwriting risk.

Hematology

Duration:up to 5 minutes

Description: Hematology and focus on specific disorders that increase mortality risk.

Liver

Duration: up to 5 minutes

Description: The diseases, disorders, anatomy and physiology of the liver.

Lymphoma and Leukemia

Duration: up to 5 minutes

Description: The diagnosing, grading, staging and treatment of leukemia, a bone marrow cancer and lymphoma.

Skin Cancer

Duration: up to 5 minutes

Description: How to read a pathology report to capture the relevant information to assess melanoma risk.

Mental Health

Duration: up to 5 minutes

Description: The possible causes of mental disorders, how they're diagnosed, the treatment required, the complications and risk factors of mortality.

Pharmaceuticals

Duration: up to 5 minutes

Description: Pharmaceuticals and certain classes of drugs and the reasons why the drugs are prescribed.

Introduction to Life Underwriting

Duration: up to 5 minutes

Description: Collect the facts and think through and analyze them to be able to properly assess and classify the risk.

Respiratory

Duration: up to 5 minutes

Description: Overview of the respiratory system, with a focus on the airways, the lungs, the blood vessels and gas exchange.

Small Intestine

Duration: up to 5 minutes

Description: The anatomy and physiology of the small intestine, also known as the small bowel, and its role in digestion.

Stomach

Duration: up to 5 minutes

Description: The anatomy and physiology of the stomach, its role in digestion and potential complications from common diseases and disorders.

Breast Tumors

Duration: up to 5 minutes

Description: The different types of breast cancer most often seen in underwriting, their signs and symptoms, how breast cancer is diagnosed and how it is underwritten.