Professional Practice III
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Professional Practice III by medical student for medical students
- 1.A patient is angry about the amount of time he spent in the waiting room.What is the appropriate response to this situation?
- A.
Apologise to the patient for any inconvenience. Stay away from efforts to explain the delay
- B.
Move the patient up in the waiting list without telling the patient and your colleagues.
- C.
Suggest that the patient speak directly to the registrar to ask for information
- D.
Leave him there as it is.
- 2.Evaluation of Diagnostic Test.Which one of these are TRUE about Diagnostic Test?
- A.
High value in sensitivity is desirable for ruling in disease (low false-positive rate)
- B.
High value in specificity is desirable for ruling out disease (low false- negative rate)
- C.
Positive predictive value is the probability that person actually has the disease given a positive test result.
- D.
Negative predictive value is the probability that person is actually disease-free although given a positive test result.
- 3.These are the correct ways to reduce bias in a research except...
- A.
Blind studies
- B.
Placebo responses
- C.
Crossover studies
- D.
Specific selection criteria
- 4.Which of these points are TRUE about disease prevention?
- A.
Vaccination is a secondary disease prevention
- B.
Having Pap Smear and rectal examination are the primary disease prevention
- C.
Tertiary prevention is to reduce disability from the disease.like exogenous insulin for diabetes
- D.
Reporting infectious disease in workplace is the main prevention of disease
- 5.A 2 year old girl has an increase in abdominal girth, failure to thrive, and skin and hair depigmentation.What is the diagnosis?
- A.
Melanoma
- B.
Kwashiorkor
- C.
Vitamin D3 deficiency
- D.
Albinism
- 6.One hour after eating custard at a picnic, a whole family began to vomit.After 10 hours, they were better.What is the organism causing this?
- A.
Staphylococcus aureus
- B.
Clostridia botilinum
- C.
Klebsiella
- D.
Vibrio parahaemolyticus
- 7.Choose the wrong match between the disease and its association.
- A.
Fatty liver- alcoholism
- B.
String sign on x-ray- Crohn's disease
- C.
Waxy casts- Acute pyelonephritis
- D.
Mallory-Weiss syndrome- Oesophagogastric lacerations
- 8.Which of these are not detectable in plain abdominal X-rays?
- A.
Calculi- gall bladder, kidney, appendix
- B.
Bowel obstruction- small and large bowel
- C.
Free intraperitoneal air (perforation of GIT)
- D.
Lacerations of organs- oesophagus, kidney
- 9.Which of these scenarios does not involve the conflict of interest?
- A.
IOC delegates accomodated at luxury hotel at the expense of local government bidding for Olympics
- B.
Real estate agent tells young couple that the house they are inspecting (to buy) is a great deal, and that they better act quickly
- C.
Male medical student receives free pen from very attractive female drug rep
- D.
Vascular surgeon writes a job reference for his female registrar (who is also his current sexual partner)
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