Talking is Hard
(Patient Interviewing)
(Patient Interviewing)
Nothing 'gross' about it (Basic Anatomy)
Spoken like a true physician (Medical Definitions)
Wait, is that a real word? (Strange anatomical terms)
Differential Diagnosis
100
A new patient comes into your office, how do you know what to call your patient?
Ask them! Always ask your patient how they prefer to be addressed. This helps start your relationship off on the right foot.
100
How many chambers does the heart have?
Four!
100
What is the difference between an X-ray and an MRI?
An X-ray looks at bones; MRI looks at soft tissue!
100
Borborigmi
What is stomach sounds
100
A 28-year-old woman presents with fatigue, arthralgias, photosensitive malar rash sparing the nasolabial folds, and painless oral ulcers. Labs show anemia, positive ANA, and anti–double-stranded DNA antibodies
What is systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)?
200
What’s the first thing you should ask your patient during an interview?
To verify their name and date of birth.
Gotta make sure you're actually talking to the right person.
200
In which area of the abdomen is the spleen?
Upper Left
Upper Right
Lower Left
Lower Right
Upper Left
200
What is a patient's history?
Aspects of their background that are important to their healthcare (verbally elaborate that this is past medical, family, and social)
200
Sartorius
what is a muscle in the leg
200
A 60-year-old man is on broad-spectrum antibiotics for pneumonia. One week later, he develops watery diarrhea, abdominal cramping, and low-grade fever. Stool testing detects a toxin-producing, spore-forming, Gram-positive rod
What is Clostridioides (Clostridium) difficile infection?
300
If your patient seems uncomfortable when you ask more sensitive questions, what can you say to offer reassurance?
Some of these questions might seem a little personal, but they are important for your overall health. I want you to know that everything you tell me is completely confidential. If you get uncomfortable, you don’t have to answer.
300
What does the gallbladder do?
It stores (and concentrates) bile, produced by the liver!
300
Failure to achieve this major gross motor milestone by 18 months is considered a developmental red flag and warrants further evaluation for motor delay or neuromuscular disease.
What is independent walking?
300
Pisiform?
What is a bone in the wrist
300
A 50-year-old woman presents with violaceous, polygonal, flat-topped papules on her wrists and ankles, with Wickham striae on their surface. She also has lacy white lesions on the buccal mucosa
What is lichen planus?
400
~~DAILY DOUBLE~~
When a doctor asks a patient to explain the reason for their visit, how long does it take the average doctor to interrupt the patient?
Between 10-20 seconds (median 11 seconds)
This number has been replicated across multiple studies in the past ~15 years. Women are more likely to be interrupted than men.
400
Most of us are familiar with "biceps" as the muscle you see when you flex your arm. Your body has another set of biceps--where are they and what are they called?
Your legs!
400
What is a sphygomomanometer?
A blood pressure cuff!
400
Epistaxis?
What is a bloody nose
400
A 10-year-old girl with a history of asthma and allergic rhinitis has chronic, pruritic, eczematous patches on the flexor surfaces of her elbows and behind her knees. The rash worsens with stress and during winter when the air is dry.
What is atopic dermatitis (eczema)?
500
A patient comes into your office with her wife. You want to ask some sensitive questions privately. What is the best way to proceed?
Ask her wife to please leave the room. If you encounter resistance, say that it is clinic policy. Only allow the wife to stay if the patient asks her to.
This privacy can be vital in several situations: domestic violence, fidelity, drug use
500
Name three things that the kidneys do.
Some examples:
- Excretion of waste (produce urine)
- Excretion of drugs
- Filter/clean blood
- Regulation of blood pressure, volume
- Regulation of salt balance
- Signal for production of red blood cells
- Activate Vitamin D
500
What is a differential diagnosis?
A comprehensive list of potential diseases based on the information a doctor gathers.
HUGE part of how doctors think!
i.e. a patient presents with shoulder pain. differential might be
1) Heart attack
2) Acid reflux
3) Deltoid injury
4) Lung cancer --> diaphragm irritation
500
Glabella?
What is the ridge between your eyebrows!
500
A 32-year-old woman on estrogen-containing OCPs presents with sudden-onset pleuritic chest pain, dyspnea, and mild hemoptysis. She returned from a 10-hour flight yesterday. Her HR is 118, RR 26, and O₂ sat is 90% on room air.
What is pulmonary embolism