* High yield questions for you all..
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	apple09 - 02/08/10 12:44
	Hi. I have been studying the past three months doing UW, Kaplan, other question banks, and reading various books and putting notes together. I have some high yield questions that I would like to ask you guys because they are unclear in my head, so this will help everyone out who has the same unclarity. 1. What is the best way to lower cholesterol: exercise -or- eat less red meat/more fish? 2. What causes a cystocele in a post-menopausal woman with incontinence and why? 3. What is the mechanism of pulmonary edema in CHF? What about peripheral edema? 4. Is Myasthenia Gravis a presynaptic or postsynaptic problem? What about Eaten Lambert? 5. Do yo use a voiding cystourethrogram or ultrasound in a kid with UTI? What is the order of clinical approach? 6. An injury where can cause weakness in all five fingers of your hand? 7. Is it normal to have carpal tunnel's syndrome bilaterally? What else can cause weakness in the thumb, index, and middle fingers of both hands simultaneously? 8. How do you treat a patient with pain in his arms and legs, and has sickle cell anemia? 9. Do you give all immunocompromised patients vaccines of encapsulated organisms, or just those lacking a spleen? 10. Do you do a narrow or wide excisional biopsy for a 6mm malignant melanoma? 11. Do you treat Varicella Zoster infection in an old man with oral or IV acyclovir? 12. How can you symptomatically and clinically distinguish Gonorrhea and Chlamydia infection in a male? 13. If someone has pain when they raise their arms while laying supine, and has pain in the legs as well, what is the cause of this? 14. If a man has a cape-like redness below his neck, what is the cause of this? 15. Would do choose to do a DEXA or bone scan in a 60 y/o female with back pain? 16. If a 2-3 month old infant vomits milk once a day, is that normal behavior? Should he be switched to formula? 17. Which condition is MOST commonly associated with Omphalocele: Trisomy 21, 18, or 13? 18. What is the appropriate breast cancer prophylaxis in a woman who has relatives that have had brest cancer? 19. Uterine atony's most likely complication is hemorrhage, but what type of hemorrhage specifically? Asherman's? Sheehan's? something else? 20. If a patient has Kallman's syndrome but only FSH is low, and you only had the option to give Estrogen or Progesterone, which would it be? 21. If a woman in labor who received an epidural now receives ephedrine to normalize the fetal heart rate, what would be the next step in management if she is 5cm dilated? oxytocin? observe? c-section? 22. If a pregnant woman can't feel the baby at 36 weeks pregnant, do you do an ultrasound, gentle speculum, or immediate c-section? 23. If the fetal head is engaged based on station -2 to 2, what does that mean? Do you use forceps or do a c-section? 24. Which OCP is the better choice for a hypertensive woman: combined pill or progesterone only pill? In other words, what is the best medication OCP for her? 25. If a 20 year old female has a family history of ovarian cancer, do you offer her prophylactic OCP's to decrease her risk of ovarian and endometrial cancer, or would you rather screen her first? 26. If a teenager cries, talks backs to her mother and father, sits in her room all day long, and lost 8 pounds in the last 6 months, is she depressed or is this normal behavior? 27. If a 7-8 year old girl doesn't do her homework, sits and daydreams all day, and is reminded to constantly do her chores and homework, is that ADHD? Normal? Narcolepsy? Autism? something else?
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