Last night I did a 115 question "practice exam." Our exams are always 110-120 questions (multiple choice) and you have about 60 seconds (or a little less) per question. I do much better on exams if I sit down and do practice exams. It is similar to an athlete training: if you are going to run in a marathon, you should start running before the race. I am going to take an exam, not read notes, write summaries or answer essay questions; therefore, I need to practice recalling information as I am going to be required to do on the exam: multiple choice. Anyway, I was doing some anatomy questions last night on the abdominal cavity and viscera (organs). These questions were long and detailed about patients presenting with problems. I wrote one in the style of the questions for you to have a taste of the fun:
A 16 year old boy is driving down a highway at 45 miles per hour. It is dark, snowing and his car slides on a patch of black ice which broadsides his vechicle into a tree. Thirty minutes later presents into the ER. His blood pressure dropped in the ambulance and he is having extreme pain on the left side of this back, his left abdomen and his left shoulder. He was wearing a seat belt, but hit his head. However, all imaging shows that he does not have a skull fracture. What could he have injured?
It was his spleen (or I was trying to write a question in which he injured his spleen). Isn't that fun? Do you feel like a doctor? Don't you feel like the medical investigators on Discovery Health? My question isn't a long as the question stems that we are given, but you get the idea. Although we are still deep in the midst of the basic sciences, I am starting to see the light (clinicals) at the end of the tunnel. Thank Goodness!!!
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