Family Medicine Boards Exam Study
Guide – COMPLETE SOLUTION 2022/23
Most common type of arthritis seen in psoriatic arthritis? - ✔✔Oligoarticular artheritis
Characteristic finding in the fingers of psoriatic arthritis
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Family Medicine Boards Exam Study
Guide – COMPLETE SOLUTION 2022/23
Most common type of arthritis seen in psoriatic arthritis? - ✔✔Oligoarticular artheritis
Characteristic finding in the fingers of psoriatic arthritis - ✔✔Sausage Digits
What is the early finding in allopurinol hypersensitivity syndrome? - ✔✔Eosinophilia
What antihypertensive is a good uricouric agent? - ✔✔Losartan
Where does pseudogout present on board exams in elderly women? - ✔✔Wrist
What antibody suggest sjogrens syndrome - ✔✔SSA
What connective tissue disease is assoicated with CREST syndrome? - ✔✔Scleroderma
What virus can cause mixed cryoglobulinemia, oligoarthritis, and secondary sjogrens - ✔✔Hepatitis C
How do you diagnose low T - ✔✔Signs and Symptoms with two am testosterones < 300
Most common cause of osteomyelitis? - ✔✔Staph A
Most common cause of osteomyelitis in IV drug users? - ✔✔Pseudomonas
Most common cause of osteomyelitis in sickle cell patient? - ✔✔Salmonella
What MEDD does a patient need a referral to pain management? - ✔✔90
What should all patients who are on chronic pain medication be on? - ✔✔Senna or bisacodyl
Over the counters a patient can take for sleep? - ✔✔Melatonin or Valarian root
Primary Prevention - ✔✔Prevent disease (vaccines)
Secondary prevention - ✔✔early detection and treatment of disease
Tertiary prevention - ✔✔management of chronic disease
How often should a female have cervical cancer screening? - ✔✔Starting at age 21 q 3 years with pap
smear until 30 then q 5 years with pap plus HPV until age 65
How often should a female have ovarian cancer screening? - ✔✔She shouldn't
How often should a female have breast cancer screening? - ✔✔Starting at age 50 q 2 years until 74
When should you screen for AAA? - ✔✔65 years of age male who has ever smoked before
At what age should you start to apply fluoride varnishes? - ✔✔> 6 months of life if water is deficient
When should you start to think about medications for BMI? - ✔✔> 30
When should you start to think about surgery for BMI? - ✔✔BMI > 40
BMI > 35 with comorbidities
What is Marasmus - ✔✔Total calorie malnutrition
What is Kwashiorkor? - ✔✔Protein Malnutrition
How do you tell the difference between marasmus and kwashiorkor? - ✔✔Kwashiorkor has edema and
ascites with normal weight while marasmus has wasting
Treatment of both marasmus and kwashiorkor? - ✔✔1 g protein /kg and 30 kcal/kg enterically
Symptoms of B1 deficiency? - ✔✔dry beriberi and wernicke korsakoff syndrome
Wet beriberi- high output heart failure
What is dry beriberi? - ✔✔Wernicke korsakoff syndrome
What is wet Beriberi? - ✔✔High output heart failure
Symptoms of B2 deficiency? - ✔✔glossitis, cheilosis, and seborrheic dermatitis
Symptoms of B3 deficiency? - ✔✔Pellagra- dermatitis, diarrhea, and dementia
Symptoms of B6 deficiency? - ✔✔Peripheral neuropathy, anemia, and seizures
Symptoms of Vitamin C deficiency? - ✔✔Scurvy- poor wound healing, easy bruising and bleeding gums
Symptoms of biotin deficiency? - ✔✔myalgias, dysethesias, anorexia
Symptoms of Vitamin A deficiency? - ✔✔Night blindness, Bitot's spots
What are Bitots Spots? - ✔✔Seen in Vitamin A Deficiency, white patches n the Conjunctivae
Symptoms of Vitamin E deficiency? - ✔✔Areflexia, peripheral neuropathy
What herbals interact with Coumadin? - ✔✔Garlic, Ginger, Gingko, Ginseng
What is Garlic powder used for? - ✔✔High Cholesterol
What is Ginger root used for? - ✔✔Motion Sickness
What is horse chestnut used for? - ✔✔Venous Insufficiency
What is Saw Palmetto used for? - ✔✔BPH
What percent DEET should travelers use? - ✔✔At least 20%
When is Yellow Fever vaccine needed for travel? - ✔✔Sub-Saharan africa, south america
Most common bacterial cause of travelers diarrhea? - ✔✔Enterotoxigenic E Coli
Why dont we use Bismuth subsalicylate in children? - ✔✔Reye Syndrome
Drug of choice for malaria if no resistence? - ✔✔Chloroquine phosphate
Drugs of choice for malaria if resistence to Chloroquine - ✔✔Doxycycline or malarone
Drug of choice for P vivax malaria? - ✔✔Primaquine
What exposures can cause silicosis? - ✔✔Silica mining, sandblasting, masonry
What exposures can cause asbestosis? - ✔✔Textiles, shipbuilding, cement, insulation
What exposures can cause Toxic organic dust syndrome? - ✔✔Moldy Hay
Post Exposure protocol for TB - ✔✔Offer PPD now and then again at 12 weeks.
> 5 mm is (+)
Post Exposure protocol for Hepatitis A virus? - ✔✔Immune globulin and first dose of Vaccine now
Post Exposure protocol for Hepatitis B virus? - ✔✔Offer Immune globulin and start vaccine
Post exposure protocol for HIV? - ✔✔start 4 we
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