The Black Lung
(thoracic)
HeartX
(innovations)
Three Strikes
(skin & soft tissue)
Critical Thinking
(critical care)
Gag Reel
(endoscopy)
Baylor Swift
(hepatobiliary)
200

The subcarinal lymph node station level for mediastinoscopy.

What is Level 7?

200

This suture material was introduced in 1969 by Ethicon and revolutionized cardiac and vascular surgery due to its inert properties and resistance to degradation.

What is Prolene?


200

Most used adjuvant treatment for node positive melanoma.

What is Immunotherapy?

200

These two physiologic insults should be avoided at all costs while managing TBI.

What are hypotension and hypoxia?

200

Term used to describe paradoxical scope retraction with advancement during colonoscopy.

What is Looping?



200

This classification system that divides the liver into eight functionally independent segments, instrumental for surgical planning.


What is the Couinaud Classification?

400

Diagnosis for patient presenting with fever and cough and this CXR:


What is right middle lobe pneumonia?

400

This surgeon performed the first liver transplant in Denver, Colorado in 1967.

Who was Thomas Starzl?


400

Germline mutation associated with development of soft tissue sarcoma.

What is TP53?

400

Paralytic drug with rapid onset and short duration often used for ICU procedures.

What is Succinylcholine?


400

The classification system named after this west coast city is used to characterize esophagitis.


What is the Los Angeles Grading System?

400

Most common complication following a laparoscopic splenectomy.

What is portal vein thrombosis?

600

Source of blood supply for gastric conduit in an Ivor-Lewis esophagectomy.

What is the Right Gastroepiploic Artery?

600

Country where the first therapeutic laparoscopic surgery was performed in 1983.

What is Germany? (Dr. Kurt Semm, appendectomy)

600

Depth of melanoma for which a sentinel node biopsy is indicated.

What is 0.8mm?

600

This ICP goal is generally recommended as a guideline for the management of severe TBI with an ICP monitor.

What is less than 22mmHg?

600

Intestinal metaplasia of the gastroesophageal junction.


What is Barrett’s Esophagus?

600

The confluence of the gastroepiploic vein and the middle colic vein upon entering the superior mesenteric vein.

What is the Common trunk of Henle (gastrocolic trunk)?

800

A condition in patients with pre-existing lung cavities.


What is Aspergilloma?

800

First trialed in 1982 at the University of Utah, this device involves removal of the human heart and replacement with a mechanical pump.

What is the Total Artificial Heart Device?


800

Histologic subtype of most common sarcoma in adults.

What is Leiomyosarcoma?

800

Increasing this metric for a ventilated patient will treat hypercarbia.

What is Minute Ventilation (MV = TV x RR)?

800

A patient with AIDS and odynophagia undergoes upper endoscopy with these findings.

What Candida Esophagitis?

800

Name of the consensus guidelines to risk stratify pancreatic IPMNs

What is the Fukuoka Criteria?

1000

Adjuvant therapy for patients with EGFR+ NSCLC.

What is Osimertinib?


1000

Renewed interest in xenotransplantation is credited to what novel gene editing technology.

What is CRISPR?


1000

Iatrogenic cancer observed after breast irradiation.


What is Angiosarcoma?

1000

Sedative alternative to benzos and propofol that agonizes alpha-2 receptors with minimal impact on blood pressure.

What is Dexometomidate?


1000

Recommended margin size for observation after endoscopic resection of a malignant colon polyp.

What is 2mm?

1000

Recommended future liver remnant size for a Child’s A cirrhotic undergoing hepatectomy

What 40%?