Great Exam Questions

[Antigunner]

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Anybody else had any funny exam questions?

Our quirky biochem prof gave us this one on our first exam:

The drug Viagra (sildenafil citrate) has become very well known. What alternate name was considered for this drug?

A. Alimpdixafixit
B. Mydixafloppin
C. Mydixarizin citrate
D. Mycoxadroopin
E. Mycoxabrokin

This question almost made me crap my pants until I started looking at the answers!

 

[DoctorFunk]

Any chance your school does correspondance courses? I'd kill for questions like that on my exams.

 

[erin682]

Every single one of our test questions goes through a panel review before it gets on the test. So nothing too amusing and no super easy questions make it through.

 

[Napoleon1801]

Anybody else had any funny exam questions?

Our quirky biochem prof gave us this one on our first exam:

The drug Viagra (sildenafil citrate) has become very well known. What alternate name was considered for this drug?

A. Alimpdixafixit
B. Mydixafloppin
C. Mydixarizin citrate
D. Mycoxadroopin
E. Mycoxabrokin

This question almost made me crap my pants until I started looking at the answers!

I think that one and one of the questions in gross (involving our small asian course director getting involved in a a gang shootout and taking an injury to the brachial plexus while trying to buy a really crappy used car in a bad part of town) pretty explain why I love med school now.

 

[logos]

Crazyest thing so far:

One of our anatomy profs took us though a "tour" of the abdomen. He was one laser pointer dot, while we were the other (all 200+ of us) moving around on a Netters diagram up on a big screen. We followed him to various places in the abdomen, then he got upset that were always following him and he hid in the lesser sac (behind the lesser omentum). Crazy guy.

 

[katrinadams9]

How about this one:

What was the US health care expenditure for 2004?
a. $210 trillion
b. $210 billion
c. $210 million
d. $210 gazillion

First of all, what the heck is a gazillion? Second of all, why the heck is this relevant to us becoming good doctors and how do questions like this prepare us for the boards?

 

[Napoleon1801]

How about this one:

What was the US health care expenditure for 2004?
a. $210 trillion
b. $210 billion
c. $210 million
d. $210 gazillion

First of all, what the heck is a gazillion? Second of all, why the heck is this relevant to us becoming good doctors and how do questions like this prepare us for the boards?

LoL, so is that from a Human Behavior class? Just sounds like something a psych prof would concentrate on...

 

[katrinadams9]

LoL, so is that from a Human Behavior class? Just sounds like something a psych prof would concentrate on...

Nope, it was on our pharm exam.

 

[dynx]

I just had a great one...
Are OTC pregnancy tests:
a. Very sensitive and kinda specific
b. Very sensitive very specific
c. Sorta sensitive and very specific
d. Somewhat sensitive and kinda specific

What brilliant mind came up with the wording for this question I have no idea.

 

[jennben4]

The best we've gotten is this one on a physiology practice exam. :-/

25. This is a fun course?
a. yes
b. maybe
c. no

 

[little_late_MD]

Not really super-relevent, but in a graduate econ class one of my professors asked this question:

What sport will my son be a super star in?
1. Football
2. Basketball
3. Baseball
4. That silly sport with the checkerboard-looking ball.


I almost fell out of my desk laughing when I read it.

 

[Arsenic]

Anybody else had any funny exam questions?

Our quirky biochem prof gave us this one on our first exam:

The drug Viagra (sildenafil citrate) has become very well known. What alternate name was considered for this drug?

A. Alimpdixafixit
B. Mydixafloppin
C. Mydixarizin citrate
D. Mycoxadroopin
E. Mycoxabrokin

This question almost made me crap my pants until I started looking at the answers!

i would have fallen out of my chair had i seen this on a pharm exam

 

[Antigunner]

Got another one today (from the same biochem prof) - we were matching symptoms to conditions. The symptom was a sentence of jumbled up words. The matching disease? TYPOglycemia!