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What is the NBME? They’re the National Board of Medical Examiners. We guess you already knew that! They’re a not-for-profit and independent organization. They provide the public with top notch assessments of healthcare professionals. Their mission is to protect the health of the public. They also develop and manage the USMLE. It sounds exciting, doesn’t it? There’s more.

Together with the Federation of State Medical Boards and Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates they cosponsor the USMLE. Individual boards may grant the license to practice medicine; however, the US accepts a USMLE pass for a candidate to demonstrate they’re competent to practice medicine. The NBME have a collection of online lessons for members interested in learning various topics relating to high quality assessments. If you’re a practicing medical practitioner, student or just curious to test your knowledge, take these tests and see if you’ve what it takes to develop your assessment skills.

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NBME 13 Section 1 (Qst 1-50)

Questions: 50 | Attempts: 3338 | Last updated: Jul 13, 2020

Sample Question
A 28 year old woman comes to the physician for a health maintenance examination. During the interview, she tearfully tells the physician that she and her new husband are having problems. She says she wants to go out with friends, but he does not enjoy being with people, referring individual activities such as hiking. She says he seems indifferent to sexual intimacy and neither shows much emotion nor understands her feelings at all. Which of the following personality styles best explains the husband’s behavior?

Avoidant

Narcissistic

Paranoid

Schizoid

Schizotypal

NBME 13 Section 4 (Qst 1-50)

Questions: 50 | Attempts: 2310 | Last updated: Jul 9, 2020

Sample Question
An 18-year-old man has had temperatures to 38.3°C (101°F), a sore throat, and cervical lymph node enlargement for 8 days. A latex agglutination test result for Epstein-Barr virus antibody is positive. Atypical cells with abundant lacey cytoplasm in the peripheral blood smear are most likely derived from which of the following types of cells?

B lymphocytes

Basophils

Neutrophils

Plasma cells

T lymphocytes

NBME 13 Section 2 (50 Questions)

Questions: 50 | Attempts: 2820 | Last updated: Sep 24, 2020

Sample Question
A 2-year old girl takes oral cephalexin for treatment of Impetigo caused by group A beta-hemolytic Streptococcus, Which of the following is the mechanism of action of this antibiotic in this patient?

Binding to bacterial 30S ribosomal subunits

Binding to bacterial 50S ribosomal subunits

Inhibition of bacterial dihydrofolate reductase

Interference with bacterial cell wall synthesis

Production of beta-lactamase

NBME 13 Section 3 (Qst 1-50)

Questions: 50 | Attempts: 2139 | Last updated: Feb 29, 2016

Sample Question
A 25-year-old man comes to the physician because of a 4-day history of pain and burning with urination and frequent urinary urgency. He is sexually active and has several female partners; he does not use condoms. His temperature is 37°C (98.6°F). Urinalysis shows 2+ protein; cultures grow on chocolate agar. A Gram stain shows gram-negative diplococci. The organism causing this patient’s symptoms most likely produces which of the following virulence factors?

Elementary bodies

Exotoxins

Free radicals

Pili

Spores

NBME Questions & Answers

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Which of the following is the most appropriate therapy considering that the newborn can be carefully monitored for methemoglobinemia? A female newborn is delivered al 34 weeks gestation in an...

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