07-14-2007, 06:26 AM
Dearest forum members
It was a fair experience; the blocks were fair on length. It took me approx. 40-45 minutes to solve one block, and I could revise all the blocks, with the questions I had marked. Predominantly IM, they are big on Pathophys Guys! Make sure you have the basics right! I had some crazy Pathophys questions like mechanism of cough in Sarcoidosis (alveolar inflammation v. increased pulmonary pressure; I chose the latter), and mechanism causing agranulocytosis with PTU (destruction v. inactivation of precursors of CFUs; again I chose the latter one).
A couple of questions on study designs; in kids (newborns - 18 years), use of NSAIDS v. Opiods in Pain Management (they had asked about the defect in study design; I picked it is difficult to measure pain in kids; other options were assessment difficulties; not enough comparisons in drugs; and low sample size [it was 300]). I do not know the answer to this question, and the two written above. Therefore, kindly contribute.
One another study where they asked about single v. double contrast enemas in ruling out colon cancers, and all the subjects were FOBT positive, with sample size in thousands. The defect I picked; there are no controls in here (other option that was close was the absence of a confirmatory study, but the former looked better to me). Phew!
Less than two hours since I finished; I shall post more. Regards!
It was a fair experience; the blocks were fair on length. It took me approx. 40-45 minutes to solve one block, and I could revise all the blocks, with the questions I had marked. Predominantly IM, they are big on Pathophys Guys! Make sure you have the basics right! I had some crazy Pathophys questions like mechanism of cough in Sarcoidosis (alveolar inflammation v. increased pulmonary pressure; I chose the latter), and mechanism causing agranulocytosis with PTU (destruction v. inactivation of precursors of CFUs; again I chose the latter one).
A couple of questions on study designs; in kids (newborns - 18 years), use of NSAIDS v. Opiods in Pain Management (they had asked about the defect in study design; I picked it is difficult to measure pain in kids; other options were assessment difficulties; not enough comparisons in drugs; and low sample size [it was 300]). I do not know the answer to this question, and the two written above. Therefore, kindly contribute.
One another study where they asked about single v. double contrast enemas in ruling out colon cancers, and all the subjects were FOBT positive, with sample size in thousands. The defect I picked; there are no controls in here (other option that was close was the absence of a confirmatory study, but the former looked better to me). Phew!
Less than two hours since I finished; I shall post more. Regards!