Neuro
Infectious Disease
Ambulatory Medicine
Ethics and Professionalism
Genetics and Genomics
100

Most common primary brain tumor, traditionally associated with the dural tail sign

Meningioma

100

Severe neurologic complication of Campylobacter jejuni infection

 Guillain-BarrĂ© syndrome (accept GBS)

100

Muscle group made up of the subscapularis, infraspinatus, supraspinatus, and teres minor

 Rotator cuff

100

English translation of 'Primum non nocere'

First, do no harm

100

Most prevalent monogenic inherited medical disorder

Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (do not accept polycystic kidney disease alone)

200

Headache characterized by increased intracranial pressure and papilledema without identifiable structural pathology

Idiopathic intracranial hypertension (accept pseudotumor cerebri)


200

 Ocular finding of redness without exudate that can occur with leptospirosis 


Conjunctival suffusion (accept subconjunctival hemorrhage, circumcorneal conjunctival congestion, and chemosis)

200

Recommended screening frequency for prostate cancer for men above the age of 70

No screening recommended

200

Federal database containing physician malpractice payment and adverse action information

National Practitioner Data Bank

200

 Offspring of consanguineous unions are at increased risk of this pattern of inherited genetic disorder

Autosomal recessive (do not accept recessive alone)

300

Shock-like sensation radiating down the spine or limbs induced by neck movements due to a lesion within the spinal cord

Lhermitte sign (accept the barber chair phenomenon)

300

Acute, self-limited, febrile illness occurring in the first 24 hours of treatment of spirochetal infections

Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction (accept Herxheimer)

300

Starting age for colon cancer screening receiving a grade B recommendation by the USPSTF in 2021

45

300

Legislative act requiring pharmaceutical companies to publicly report payments to physicians

Physician Payments Sunshine Act (accept Sunshine Act or Sunshine Law)

300

The ability of a mutation in a single gene to produce more than one phenotypic effect

Pleiotropy

400

Acronym for the three-step oculomotor exam used to help differentiate central versus peripheral cause of acute vestibulopathy
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HINTS

400

Bacterial infection transmitted via fecal-oral route for which there is an oral and intramuscular vaccine available

Typhoid fever (accept Salmonella typhi infection)

400

Most common cause of viral conjunctivitis

 Adenovirus

400

 Term for a patient's ability to comprehend, evaluate, and choose among realistic medical options

Capacity (accept decision-making capacity)

400

Hematologic malignancy associated with translocation between chromosomes 15 and 17

Acute promyelocytic leukemia

500

Condition for which the ESETT study found fosphenytoin, valproate, and levetiracetam to be of equal benefit as second-line drugs

Convulsive status epilepticus (accept status epilepticus or SE but not epilepsy)

500

Vaginal pH above which meets one of the Amsel criteria for bacterial vaginosis

4.5

500

FDA-approved upper age limit for HPV vaccination

45

500

 Term for withholding relevant information from a patient if disclosure is believed to be medically contraindicated

Therapeutic privilege (accept therapeutic non-disclosure; therapeutic exception)

500

Gene editing technique utilizing the bacterial defense system against infecting viruses

CRISPR (accept CRISPR-Cas9, Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats)