Dmsa Research Team Entry Assessment Quiz
This exam is produced by DMSA research team to assess the knowledge of the members on the fundamentals of clinical research skills. Al-Azhar University Damietta faculty of medicine Damietta medical student association (DMSA) research team
- 1.Pre-clinical research is
- A.
Done on healthy human volunteers
- B.
Done using lab animals
- C.
Done on group of diseased human participants
- D.
Developed from patient records
- 2.All of the following studies have prospective design except
- A.
Case-control study
- B.
Randomized controlled trial
- C.
Quasi control study
- D.
Classical cohort study
- 3.In double-blind randomized controlled trial
- A.
The doctors know but the patients don’t know who is getting placebo
- B.
Neither the doctor nor the patients know who is getting the placebo
- C.
Both doctors and patients know who is getting placebo
- D.
Patients know but the doctors don’t know who is getting placebo
- 4.A placebo is
- A.
Drug pill looks the same as the drug being tested
- B.
Drug bill containing the same chemicals in the drug being tested
- C.
False pill contains no active ingredients and looks the same as the active pill
- D.
Drug pill which has lower concentration of the active ingredients
- 5.The most important document to enrol patients in clinical trial is
- A.
Protocol
- B.
Informed consent
- C.
Case report form
- D.
Patient marital status documents
- 6.For what purpose does the IRB review the informed consent?
- A.
Protection of the facility
- B.
Protection of the participant
- C.
For documentation
- D.
Protection of the sponsor
- 7.When is the primary outcome/endpoint of the trial defined?
- A.
Just prior to data analysis
- B.
During protocol development
- C.
At randomization
- D.
At final evaluation of data
- 8.One main reason for drop-out of a new drug under clinical testing is
- A.
Side effects
- B.
High efficacy
- C.
Drug-food interaction
- D.
Secreted in urine
- 9.The source of strongest evidence in EBM pyramid is
- A.
Expert opinion
- B.
Systematic review and meta-analysis
- C.
Case report
- D.
Randomized controlled study
- 10.Systematic review and meta-analysis methodology usually doesn’t include
- A.
Screening of clinical trial articles
- B.
Blinding of reviewers
- C.
Data analysis
- D.
Quality assessment
- 11.The usual format of journal research article is
- A.
Introduction, abstract, methods, and references
- B.
Abstract, introduction, methods, results, discussion, and references
- C.
Introduction, results, discussion, and methods.
- D.
Introduction, Methods, results, abstract, references, and discussion
- 12.The section contains details on the dosages and administration data usually is
- A.
Introduction
- B.
Abstract
- C.
Methods
- D.
Discussion
- 13.The section usually doesn’t need citations is
- A.
Discussion
- B.
Abstract
- C.
Introduction
- D.
Results
- 14.Which of the following is not a Qualitative variable
- A.
Age
- B.
Marital status
- C.
Blood groups
- D.
Gender
- 15.Which of the following is not a measure of central tendency
- A.
Standard deviation
- B.
Mean
- C.
Mode
- D.
Median
- 16.Standard deviation is usually used to describe data spread around
- A.
Median
- B.
Mean
- C.
Mode
- D.
P-value
- 17.Normal distribution curve is characterized by all of the following except
- A.
Bell shaped curve
- B.
Can be described by mean and standard deviation
- C.
Data are not symmetrical around the mean
- D.
Mean, median, and mode are equal
- 18.In normal distribution curve, the area represented by mean plus two standard deviations above or below (mean±2SD) contains
- A.
90% of sample data
- B.
50% of sample data
- C.
99% of sample data
- D.
95.4% of sample data
- 19.Typically to reject the null hypothesis the P-value must be
- A.
Lower than 0.05
- B.
Lower than or equal to 0.05
- C.
Lower than or equal to 0.5
- D.
Above or equal to 0.5
- 20.If we are using risk ratio as effect estimate which of the following 95% confidence intervals is statistically significant?
- A.
[1, 1.88]
- B.
[0.5, 0.8]
- C.
[0.01, 2]
- D.
[0.98, 5]
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