Topics I don't want to see on my test

[UCLAstudent]

I found a similar thread from a few years ago --- it might be fun to hear what everyone despises.

I'll start: porphyria

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[WhoisJohnGalt]

anti-epileptic drugs

 

[winsicle]

# of Blocks a child should be able to stack by age 14 and 1/2 months

 

[Taus]

developmental milestones besides walking and toilet training.....the usmle can stack those blocks up their *&$....

great minds think alike winsicle...

 

[blz]

antiarrhythmics

i swear the only purpose for these drugs are just to quiz us on the side effects.

 

[cubsrule4e]

anything with the word "lymphoma"

 

[cubsrule4e]

anti-epileptic drugs

Well i have TLE, so remember to give Cubs his carbamazapine!

 

[UCLAstudent]

Parasite life-cycles

 

[winsicle]

developmental milestones besides walking and toilet training.....the usmle can stack those blocks up their *&$....

great minds think alike winsicle...

No Doubt

 

[joe6102]

lysosomal storage diseases...hell, any inborn error of metabolism and i'm screwed.

 

[hyperorchidism]

biochemistry

seriously guys, you're being way too specific here

 

[Taus]

we could just call this thread "things 99% of us will never use or even think about clinically" and it would probably have similar results

 

[rhino305]

metabolic syndrome and diabetes

oh wait you see that all the time nevermind

 

[winsicle]

one more to add:

the timeline of microscopic findings after an MI

 

[OrnotMajestic]

Nephritis/Nephropathy. Oh, and anything with the word "histiocyte" in it.

 

[flumazenil]

yes 100% agree, I am okay at biochem, but man catch me off gaurd on this subject and its all downhill from there.

 

[smalley]

developmental milestones besides walking and toilet training.....the usmle can stack those blocks up their *&$....

great minds think alike winsicle...

same here..
also cts an mris of arteries an blood supply

 

[Krazykritter]

Ridiculous molecular bio junk...sonic hedgehog was a good video game back in the day, but wtf does that damn shh thing really do (looks like it could be involved in a crap-load of syndromes I don't want to see on my test).

 

[Arctic Char]

nuclear characteristics of various viridae (DNA vs RNA, segmented, continuous, etc etc). i just can't seem to keep that crap together in my head.

exam or not, i can tell you some things i never want to see period: namely, figure 22-8 in RR pathology . . . what a sh***y life that would be. breaks my heart and makes me count my stars everytime i see it . . . .

 

[Taus]

nuclear characteristics of various viridae (DNA vs RNA, segmented, continuous, etc etc). i just can't seem to keep that crap together in my head.

exam or not, i can tell you some things i never want to see period: namely, figure 22-8 in RR pathology . . . what a sh***y life that would be. breaks my heart and makes me count my stars everytime i see it . . . .

hmm...don't have the book w/ me....but I'll take a wild guess that its the nasty cushings pic?

 

[The Buff]

I'll start: porphyria

Going to have to second this, I seem to get this **** wrong each time it comes up on UW.

 

[somnolent]

anything that requires me to remember a formula/calculation. They absolutely do not stick.

 

[Arctic Char]

taus - you nailed it. the cuching's pic is exactly right

 

[Terpskins99]

Hyperlipidemia Type 1, 2, 24601, 90210, 867-5309... etc...

 

[Freshnstylin]

behavioral science "what would you say next" questions

 

[Arctic Char]

Hyperlipidemia Type 1, 2, 24601, 90210, 867-5309... etc...

 

[nasdr]

i bet those usmle test writers are reading these forums and laughing as we speak.

 

[cdql]

i bet those usmle test writers are reading these forums and laughing as we speak.

Oh god no.

 

[pleaseletmepass]

rat bite fever

 

[viostorm]

Brachial plexus ... I know I'm being a wuss, but I hate that stupid thing. Oh, and M1-M7 bite.

 

[soeagerun2or]

behavioral science "what would you say next" questions

Lol I always get those wrong because I pick the sensible one.

 

[akpete]

Anything that relies on me identifying stuff in the brain stem or spinal cord. I just can't seem to remember what goes where.

 

[Taus]

specifics of heterocyclic anti-depressants besides buproprion

 

[UCLAstudent]

Anything about the perineum

 

[joe6102]

lumbar plexus or foot muscles

 

[Acherona]

I second antiarrhythmics and porphyrias. Urobilinogen bull****e.
Also, chromosomes and oncogenes.

 

[lord_jeebus]

anything that requires me to remember a formula/calculation. They absolutely do not stick.

If you learn how they are derived, you will remember them better, plus you will understand them better, which is almost as important as memorizing them.

 

[Freshnstylin]

Lol I always get those wrong because I pick the sensible one.

haha...no kidding, my "favorite" so far has been a question on either qbank or uw. it was something like..man comes in the ER with miserable chest pain, nearly dying and can barely speak...turning blue(exaggeration). What do you say next?

Correct answer: "Will you please tell me more about your pain?"

 

[Sureshot83]

1. How do you treat rare helminth X?
(The answer I would want to put, if it was a choice: Call the ID consult.)

2. A guy comes in with blisters. What is the diagnosis?
(I swear some of those skin lesion questions give you just about this much information and expect you to know the answer.)

3. Anything that has an electron microscopy picture.

 

[Old_Mil]

I found a similar thread from a few years ago --- it might be fun to hear what everyone despises.

I'll start: porphyria

Gross Anatomy. All of it.

 

[Glycerine]

anything with the word "patient"

 

[tofoo]

An astronaut is instructed to run everyday during his stay in the space station (I think about muscle atrophy). The moons on jupiter spins at gazillion miles per hour and the astronaut has cramps. (Ok... weird... I think random stuff + hyperkalemia or calcemia). The lab results are as follows:

yadda
yadda
yadda
hyperkalemia
yadda

How does drug X work to correct hyperkalcemia?


I feel T-boned when I run across questions like this. I now don't read the last sentence first.

 

[DMBFan61]

1. HLA types other than B27
2. Antigen IDs correlating w/ various tropical diseses (O1, VW, WTF)
3. Cancer Drugs
4. Equations
5. Tanner stages
6. Intricacies of plating and culturing bacteria

 

[akpete]

parasites

 

[blkkd]

nuclear characteristics of various viridae (DNA vs RNA, segmented, continuous, etc etc). i just can't seem to keep that crap together in my head.

Should look at the first aid virus section, I had the same problem until i read that.
I just took my exam on friday but what I didn't want to see was anatomy of the pelvis and perineum...and luckily i didn't

 

[doctorp82]

rat bite fever

My grandpa was in the Korean war and was actually telling me last week how some folks got sick eating food that rats had ate off of. I remembered that exact QBank question.

Took it Saturday before yesterday. Didn't want to see anything kinetics or receptor related. Still saw it though.

 

[cubsrule4e]

Anyone happen to have any benzos lying around that will put me out until 8am tomorrow? ugh

Dont forget to send the Flumazenil too, just in case

 

[Thievery Corp.]

Let's play-"does the patient have hepatits B?"
Is he immune? active? chronic? how bout the window period? hmmm....

 

[soeagerun2or]

I don't want to see any questions where the answer is a table of possible reactions.

E.g. Renin inc/ATII inc/FF dec;Renin dec/ATII inc/FF dec; Renin inc/ATII dec/FF dec etc.

Those always kill me