A Resident Taught Me
Testing
What's in a name (dx)?
Medications
(Wish)List
100

The preferred type of cushion for offloading pressure.


What is a gel cushion?

100

PFT finding suggestive of pulmonary vascular disease.

What is decreased diffusing capacity?

100

Some people call it a sun spot, but your doctor would call it this.


What is a solar lentigo?

100

2 medications that can cause interstitial lung disease.

What are amiodarone, nitrofurantoin, minocycline, statins, propoxyphene, hydralazine, methotrexate, and many more?

100

3 conditions that have pruritis as a primary feature

What are atopic dermatitis, scabies, poison ivy? and others...

200

2 contraindications to use of azithromycin as a management medication in COPD (besides an azithromycin allergy)

What are active smoking, cardiac dysrhythmia, multiple QT prolonging medications, poor baseline hearing, concern for atypical mycobacterial infections?

200

The USPSTF criteria for lung cancer screening with low dose lung CT.

What are ages 50 to 80 years with a 20 pack-year history of smoking and current smoker or quit within past 15 years?

200



What is pytiriasis alba?

200

The Medicare coverage criteria for long term home oxygen therapy.

What is O2 sat at or under 88% at rest (or with sleep or exercise)?


200

3 possible differential diagnoses for onychomycosis

What are psoriasis, trauma, squamous cell carcinoma, melanoma, scabies, onychogryphosis?

300




This resident learned that with patience one's desire to learn the culinary art of making potato chips would be fulfilled.

Who is Dr. Goel?

300

The diagnostic modality of choice for mesenteric artery ischemia.

What is CTA?

300

Small cysts often seen in newborns.

What are milia?

300

The duration of antibiotics for community acquired pneumonia.

What is 5-7 days?

300

4 types of cognition tested by the MoCA

What are visuospatial/executive, naming, memory, attention, language, abstraction, delayed recall, orientation?

400

For a step 1 pt, the GINA guidelines list an ICS-SABA combination used prn as an alternate reliever regimen. This medication would be the option currently available.

What is Airsupra (albuterol/budesonide)?

400

Two findings on PFT's if a patient has interstitial lung disease.

What is decreased FVC and decreased DLCO?

400


3 high school graduates among our FM family this year!!!

Who are Noah Dotson, Chayse Helmig, and Grant Leopold?

400

5 treatments for osteoporosis

What are calcium, vitamin D, alendronate, zoledronic acid, denosumab, ibandronate, teriparatide, raloxifene, calcitonin, risedronate?

400

3 of the 5 groups of pulmonary hypertension, bonus points for 4 or 5

What are pulmonary arterial hypertension, PH assoc with left heart disease, PH assoc with lung dz/hypoxia, PH assoc with pulm obstructions, and PH assoc with unclear or multifactorial mechanisms?

500

this complication of atopic dermatitis is a medical emergency 

What is eczema herpeticum?

500

The ultimate diagnostic test for pulmonary hypertension.

What is right heart catheterization/Swan-Ganz catheter? (You would see mean PA pressure greater than 20mm Hg, PCWP greater than or equal to 15mm Hg, pulmonary vascular resistance greater than or equal to 2 Wood units.)

500

The name for the physical finding indicating that the discomfort is due to chronic abdominal wall pain.

What is Carnet's sign?

500

A fifth generation cephalosporin. 

What are ceftaroline and ceftobiprole?

500

4 exam findings that suggest a dx of pulmonary hypertension

What are accentuation of S2, tricuspid insufficiency murmur (pan-systolic), S4 gallop, S3 gallop, JVD, edema, ascites, lift/heave left of lower sternum, pulmonic insufficiency murmur (diastolic), pulsation between ribs at LUSB (PA tap)?