Hem/Onc
Rheumatology
Endocrinology
Cardiology
Infectious Disease
100
What age should adults without increased risk of colon cancer start receiving screening colonoscopies?
What is 50?
100
What is the term defined by "the tendency to manifest asthma, rhinitis, urticarial, and atopic dermatitis alone or in combination, in association with the presence of allergen-specific IgE"?
What is atopy?
100
Name a hormone that is an amino acid derivative.
What is a. dopamine b. catecholamine, or c. Thyroid Hormone?
100
What murmur is a decrescendo blowing diastolic murmur along hte left sternal border?
What is aortic regurgitation?
100
What is the most common organism responsible for community acquired pneumonia?
What is Strep pneumo?
200
What term is used to describe a cancerous tumor derived from mesenchymal tissue?
What is a sarcoma?
200
What is the condition mediated by systemic exposure to a specific antigen and characterized by laryngeal edema and/or intense bronchospasm followed by vascular collapse, or by shock without antecedent respiratory difficulty?
What is anaphylaxis?
200
Name all hormones secreted by the anterior pituitary gland.
What is FSH, LH, ACTH, TSH, Prolactin, and GH?
200
In the EKG waveform this is the junction between the QRS complex and the beginning of the ST segment.
What is the J point?
200
What medications may prevent secondary bacterial peritonitis?
What are non-selective beta blockers and antibiotics?
300
When is antifungal therapy indicated in a patient with neutropenic fever?
What is if the fever persists beyond 4-7 days on empiric antibiotics, with no known source of infection?
300
Name one complement-mediated urticarial and/or angioedema.
What is: a. necrotizing vasculitis b. serum sickness, or c. reaction to blood products?
300
WHat MEN1 syndrome is characterized by spotty skin pigmentation, myxomas, and testicular, pituitary and/or adrenal adenomas?
What is Carney's Syndrome?
300
Name the antiarrhythmic that commonly causes SLE-like syndrome.
What is procainamide?
300
What is the drug of choice for a female with an uncomplicated UTI (and no drug allergies)?
What is Bactrim?
400
Name the earliest discovered family of transcription factors in Small Cell Lung Cancer and Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer known to be aberrant oncogenes.
What is MYC?
400
Name the major phospholipid binding proteins that autoantibodies are directed against in anti-phospholipid syndrome.
What are B2GPI and prothrombin?
400
What is the treatment of choice for Cushing's Disease?
What is selective transphenoidal resection?
400
What medications/interventions should be considered in a patient with hemodynamically stable regular, narrow QRS tachycardia that has not terminated with vagal maneuvers, IV adenosine, and IV verapamil/diltiazem?
What are a. IV ibutilide plus AV nodal blocking agent, b. IV procainamide plus AV nodal blocking agent, or c. Cardioversion ?
400
What is the more virulent strain of C. diff?
What is NAP1/BI/027?
500
Correctly stage a lung cancer with the following TNM classification: T3 N1 M0
What is Stage IIIA?
500
Name the syndrome characterized by neutropenia, splenomegaly, and nodular rheumatoid arthritis.
What is Felty"s Syndrome?
500
What initial test should always be done in the workup of suspected diabetes insipidus?
What is 24 hour urine collection on ad libitum fluid intake?
500
Name the 2 major indications for a left ventricular assist device.
What are a. Patients at risk of imminent death from cardiogenic shock, and b. Patients with an EF <25% or VO2 <14 mL/kg/min, or are dependent on inotropes or balloon pumps ?
500
How long after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation does CMV infection usually occur?
What 30-90 days?
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