Subjects related to medical school class content, and the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE). (Not affiliated with the NBME or USMLE). Simon Downes, MD, PhD student
Oceania University of Medicine interviewed me regarding my final year and experiences studying at OUM - the first medical school to incorporate an online component into their curriculum.
A 10-year-old boy is brought to the emergency department because of vomiting for six hours. He has had excessive thirst and excretion of large amounts of urine for three weeks.
The 24-year-old woman who breast-feeds her infant develops a warm painful mass and erythema of the overlying skin in the upper outer quadrant of the right breast
A six-year-old boy is brought to the physician by his parents because of a three day history of fever, headache, and cough productive of a green, foul smelling discharge that also exits from his nose
A previously healthy 32-year-old woman who works as a nurse comes to the emergency department because of a three-week history of episodes of dizziness, nausea, and profuse sweating that resolve with eating
Hey 74-year-old man comes to the physician for a follow-up examination. He has a three month history of severe pain and swelling of the metacarpophalangeal joints, wrists elbows and knees
A 72-year-old man comes to the physician because of sharp pain of his right thorax for three days and a rash and a band like distribution over his right chest for one day
When a patient presents to you with pain and cramping during exercise but is able to exercise after rest and ingestion of sucrose this indicates McArdle disease.
If a patient is producing too much aldosterone and hydrogen ions are being sent out with potassium would the environment become more basic or more acidic?
