Where there any calculation questions on your exam?

[Knicks]

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ie: biostats?

 

[flumazenil]

yes, had one calculation that i remember doing on biostates

 

[PeepshowJohnny]

I had to divide 60 by 20 for a relative risk stats question. I think you'll manage.

 

[Law2Doc]

ie: biostats?

Yes, but very basic math could do it. You just had to know a formula.

 

[blz]

hardest calculation i had was calculating an odds ratio

 

[blz]

hardest calculation i had was calculating an odds ratio

no physio or pharm calculatins on mine.

 

[Sage880]

No calculations other than simple division on mine. Wrote on that board thing once and only because I was so razzled at the start I actually double checked the answer to 60/80.

 

[Pinkertinkle]

I had this ridiculous calculation question, more of a 5th grade math problem, which went something like given some rate of calorie burning how much would this man have to workout to work off this many grams of fat.

 

[Skills of House]

I had a couple of biostats eqtns (odds ratio and relative risk) and one filtration calculation

 

[JelicMD]

I had a henderson-hasselbach Pka calculation...yes you read that correctly. I guess intro chem in undergrad was important after all!

 

[mudphudwannabe]

I had a few biostats questions -- be sure you know the definitions of specificity, sensitivity, number needed to treat, etc etc. Nothing tricky as far as the actual calculations. I had a couple other calculations - maybe 1 each using renal and respiratory equations. Again, if you know the equation, it's not tricky - for those it can be harder to know what equations are testable and which are not. The equations I needed to know for my test were emphasized in BRS Phys.

I also had one really off the wall but ridiculously simple calculation about how much weight loss from exercise that basically required that you know how to use all of the conversion factors given in the question. 🙄

 

[Scaredshizzles]

I had a henderson-hasselbach Pka calculation...yes you read that correctly. I guess intro chem in undergrad was important after all!

But didn't you learn that in physio too?

 

[lord_jeebus]

I had a question that required calculation and interpretation of an A-a gradient

 

[TheEleventhReel]

I had a Hardy-Weinberg, an r^4 calculation re: blood vessels, and a renal phys calculation.

 

[AlbertConstable]

I had this ridiculous calculation question, more of a 5th grade math problem, which went something like given some rate of calorie burning how much would this man have to workout to work off this many grams of fat.

I remember having that same question. Not bad at all when you take a breath and work through it but when it first pops up you think: "Haven't I been through enough already today?!?"

 

[Pinkertinkle]

I remember having that same question. Not bad at all when you take a breath and work through it but when it first pops up you think: "Haven't I been through enough already today?!?"

Yeah it wasn't that bad of a question, I just didn't expect something like that on the USMLE.

 

[UCLAstudent]

My roommate had to calculate Gibbs free energy! Crazyyyy.

 

[Knicks]

ughhh,,,, I can just picture myself losing easy points on these equation questions.

 

[TheEleventhReel]

My roommate had to calculate Gibbs free energy! Crazyyyy.

Oh yeah, I had one of those too 🙁 Haven't seen that in 5 years and definately didn't remember it.

 

[Ashers]

I had sensitivity or specificity (I completely blanked on the equation, and any way I manipulated numbers, I couldn't get one of the answer choices). I also had a Fick's equation, a couple others for cardio stuff, and a few for respiratory.

 

[Knicks]

So basically, I should memorize all those equations in the Physiology BRS book?

 

[Long Dong]

I had a number needed to treat on step 1 and 2.

 

[Ashers]

So basically, I should memorize all those equations in the Physiology BRS book?

Basically yes. And a few others. Like biostats and even some from path (I think I had an Anion Gap too thrown in with all my metabolic acidosis things, as a part of a question). I tried to learn biostats because I dislike it so much; and I have some weird mental block with whatever I do, I don't understand it.

 

[ginger60]

I had a few biostats calculations and a pulm one, all really basic until one biostats q in my last block. It was a straightforward positive predictive value or something like that, the only problem was that the numbers were absolutely ridiculous...I don't remember exactly but it was something like 795/(795+35)/215/(215+335). Very painful.

 

[Pinkertinkle]

I had a few biostats calculations and a pulm one, all really basic until one biostats q in my last block. It was a straightforward positive predictive value or something like that, the only problem was that the numbers were absolutely ridiculous...I don't remember exactly but it was something like 795/(795+35)/215/(215+335). Very painful.

When the numbers get completely ridiculous I start thinking that's not the right answer.

 

[kc123]

I had this ridiculous calculation question, more of a 5th grade math problem, which went something like given some rate of calorie burning how much would this man have to workout to work off this many grams of fat.

I had the exact same question! It was pretty ridiculous. What combination working out + dieting to lose 7,000 calories in 1 week.

 

[Terpskins99]

I had a few biostats calculations and a pulm one, all really basic until one biostats q in my last block. It was a straightforward positive predictive value or something like that, the only problem was that the numbers were absolutely ridiculous...I don't remember exactly but it was something like 795/(795+35)/215/(215+335). Very painful.

I had this same question. It had every possible permutation using various formulas as answers.

Like you said, straightforward but it gave me a headache.

 

[Cards21aceking]

BUMP. Any new thoughts on this topic over the past 7-8 months?

 

[airbornemedic]

ops wrong topic