Medical TV Shows
This hit medical series kicked off the career of a cast member who later starred in Ocean's eleven, twelve, and thirteen.
ER
(George Clooney)
Saskatchewan's official mineral, sylvite, is used primarily for this purpose worldwide?
Fertilizer
The teenage patient is a cross country runner with knee pain that has gradually been increasing since the start of the season. Pain is anterior, mild swelling, + crepitus and pain worse with climbing stairs and running. The most likely diagnosis is.
What is Patellofemoral syndrome
The person responsible for discovering penicillin
Who is Alexander Fleming
In suspected opioid withdrawal this scale can help monitor withdrawal signs and symptoms.
COWS (Clinical Opioid Withdrawal Scale)
Addictions Medicine
George O'Malley, from the hit series Grey's Anatomy, gets which STD from Nurse Olivia?
Syphilis
The number of treaties signed by the federal government and First Nations in what is now the province of Saskatchewan.
6
(Treaty 2,4,5,6,8, and 10) signed 1871-1906
A 2yo M is brought in by mom for not using his right arm. Mom states that the child was unwilling to leave the sandbox and a tug of war ensued with mom eventually picking the child up by his arm. What is the most likely diagnosis?
Radial head subluxation "nursemaid's elbow"
Dr. Frederick Banting and J.J.R. Macleod received the Nobel Prize in 1923 for their discovery of this life-saving product in 1921 at the University of Toronto.
What is insulin
In patients with advanced respiaratory disease, low doses of this type of medicaiton reduce breathlessness and are not assocaited with increased mortality or hospitalizations.
Opioids
Palliative Care
The show's main character was largely based on William Stewart Halsted (1852 - 1922), an innovative turn-of-the-century physician who was also a cocaine and morphine addict.
The Knick
(Dr. Thackery).
The colors of the Saskatchewan provincial flag represent which two aspects of the province?
Green=Saskatchewan's northern forest
Yellow/Gold= Southern grain areas
Name the 5 elements on the Bishop pelvic scoring system
1. Cervical dilation
2. Effacement
3. Fetal station
4. Cervical position
5. Cervical consistency
The first permanent hospital in the region that would become Saskatchewan was located here
Ile a la Crosse (1873)
Measure from this to this to fit an oropharyngeal airway
What is the a) centre of the mouth to the angle or the jaw, or b) corner of the mouth to the tip of the ear lobe.
Family Practice Anesthesia
Scrubs main character, J.D., has many nicknames on the show, but what does his name actually stand for?
John Dorian
List two sand dunes located in Saskatchewan
1. Great Sand Hills
2. Douglas Dunes
3. Good Spirit Lake
4. Athabasca Sand Dunes
You have a patient who is mildly hypertensive and you decide to check labs. The patient's potassium is 3.0. What is the most likely cause of the patient's low potassium?
What is hyperaldosteronism
It was in 1911 that the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Ontario created this Association in order to influence country-wide public health measures and policy.
This German automobile company shares a name with your drug of choice for status epilepticus
What is benzo
Emergency Medicine
What famous character is Dr. House based on?
Sherlock Holmes
The word Saskatchewan, comes from the Cree word, "Kisiskatchewanisipi”, which means?
Swift-flowing river
Three most common causes of bacterial meningitis in neonates (0-4 weeks)
What is Group B strep, E.Coli, Listeria
This by-law, enacted in 1914 in Saskatoon, was the first of its kind in Canada. It was enacted in response to the death of 58 infants in April 1913 from consuming impure milk.
This extra bony hip condition may be a "pincer", a "cam", or "mixed", insidious in onset eventually your patient may have groin pain and trouble participating in their sport.
Femoroacetabular impingement (FAI)
Sports and Exercise Medicine