Ethics
History of Medicine
Pulmonology
Ophthalmology
ENT
100
Right of patients to make decisions about their medical care
Patient autonomy (accept autonomy)
100
Scientist integral to germ theory through the discovery of the pathology of puerperal fever
Louis Pasteur (accept Pasteur)
100
FEV1 value that defines GOLD 4 or very severe COPD
<30% of predicted (accept <30%)
100
Yellow protein and lipid deposits in macular degeneration
Drusen
100
Collection of squamous epithelium and infected debris in the middle ear
Cholesteatoma
200
Federal law that standardized the protection of health information disclosure
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
200
French physician who invented the stethoscope
René Laënnec (accept Laënnec)
200
Spirometry ratio used to indicate an obstructive defect
FEV1/FVC (accept forced expiratory volume in one second/forced vital capacity)
200
Systemic disease most commonly associated with arteriovenous nicking
Hypertension (accept high blood pressure)
200
Nerve carrying general and taste sensation from posterior 1/3 of the tongue
Glossopharyngeal nerve (accept cranial nerve IX or ninth cranial nerve)
300
Ethical principles requiring all people be treated fairly and that health resources be distributed equitably
Justice
300
Substance widely accepted to have been first synthesized in 1897 by chemist Felix Hoffmann
Aspirin (accept acetylsalicylic acid or ASA)
300
Chronic lung disease of the major airways associated with cystic fibrosis
Bronchiectasis
300
Leading cause of visual impairment that can be treated surgically
Cataracts
300
Condition that presents with the ENT features shown [ image ]
Relapsing polychondritis
400
Federal law mandating hospitals provide a medical screening exam to patients regardless of ability to pay
Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA)
400
Strain responsible for the Great Influenza pandemic of 1918
H1N1 (accept H1N1 influenza A, but do NOT accept influenza A)
400
Pulmonary cause for cryptogenic stroke
Pulmonary arteriovenous malformations (accept PAVM, pulmonary shunt, or pulmonary arteriovenous fistula)
400
Eye drop that causes blood vessel blanching in episcleritis used to differentiate it from scleritis
Phenylephrine (accept Neo-Synephrine)
400
Most common causative organism for infectious thrombophlebitis of the internal jugular vein
Fusobacterium necrophorum (accept Fusobacterium)
500
Ethical principle of truth-telling
Veracity (accept honesty and truthfulness)
500
Arsenic-based agent known as the first modern antimicrobial used to treat syphilis and African trypanosomiasis
Arsphenamine (also accept Salvarsan or compound 606)
500
Duration of treatment for cryptogenic organizing pneumonia
6 to 12 months (accept any time within this range)
500
Vitamin deficiency associated with Bitot's spots
Vitamin A (A, niacin, or vitamin B3 also acceptable)
500
Cranial nerve most commonly injured during parotid surgery
Seventh (accept facial)