PasTest Quiz - for January 2008

(Closing date: 31th January 2008)

Please take part in our quiz, kindly provided by PasTest. These are sample questions from the new PasTest undergraduate medical student revision website, which has many many more questions along with answers to help with your revision.

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The closing date is 31st January 2008. This quiz is open to everyone to enter. The 5 winners will be picked at random from all entries. In order to contact the winner, please enter your name and email address at the bottom of this page.

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Single Best Answer (SBA) Questions:

Question 1:

A 34-year-old woman sustains an injury to her left hand and visits the Emergency Department. On examination, she is tender in the left anatomical snuffbox.

Dedicated scaphoid views (X-rays) are performed. No abnormality is seen. Clinical concern of a fracture remains.

What is the next most appropriate course of action?

	(a) No treatment is required
	(b) Request a lateral view of the wrist
	(c) Repeat scaphoid views in 10-14 days
	(d) Analgesia and splint
	(e) MRI wrist

Question 2:

Which of the following agents is a thrombolytic?

	(a) Warfarin
	(b) Aspirin
	(c) Fibrinogen
	(d) Streptokinase
	(e) Heparin

Multiple True/False questions (MTFs):

Question 3:

Gout is:

	(a) More common in men than in women
	(b) A cause of renal calculi
	(c) A cause of acute arthritis
	(d) Due to increased uric acid production
	(e) Due to a deficiency of glucose-6-phosphatase

Question 4:

The following statements about schizophrenia are true:

	(a) The incidence of lifetime first schizophrenic illness is broadly similar worldwide across different cultures
	(b) The peak incidence of schizophrenia is 25-30 years of age
	(c) In Western countries schizophrenia is most common among lower socio-economic groups
	(d) In the UK more than 50% of patients are still in hospital two years following admission
	(e) Recent research has shown that schizophrenia is an autosomal dominant illness

Question 5:

Deficiencies of the following food substances are linked with the following haematological conditions?

	(a) Iron and megaloblastic anaemia
	(b) Cobalamin and haemolytic anaemia
	(c) Folic acid and microcytic anaemia
	(d) Riboflavin and red cell aplasia
	(e) Vitamin C and microcytic, normocytic or macrocytic anaemia

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