Mitochondrial metabolic pathways, my arse.
We all remember our first year at medical school. Well, we would if we hadn’t spent all our time playing the “Withnail and I” drinking game.
But are standards in our medical schools slipping?
Sit Professor Candid’s MCQ for first-year medical students and find out.
- When you eventually graduate from medical school and become a doctor, which, let’s be honest is years away, should you become:
- An interventional cardiologist
- A neurosurgeon
- An overworked, completely underappreciated and undervalued medical lackey, also known as a GP
2. In 20 years’ time you will have forgotten
- Around 8% of what you learnt at med school
- Approximately 23%
- Pretty much 100% … oh, hang on a minute, I definitely remember something about a Krebs cycle.
3. I know you’re only in your first year of med school but what’s the spot diagnosis?
- Genital warts
- Cushing’s
- Dysthymia
4. It’s your first clinical placement and you’ve been assigned to an STD clinic. But which phrase shouldn’t you use in the clinic?
- Wow, you’ve got a proper stink on down there!
- I never did like mushy peas!
- Oh, dear Lord, you did what!
5. A 32-year-old woman with type 1 diabetes mellitus has had progressive renal failure over the past two years, but she has not yet started dialysis. Her haemoglobin is 9 g/dL, haematocrit is 28%, and her red blood cells are normochromic and normocytic on a blood smear. Which of the following is the most likely cause of her anaemia?
- Acute blood loss
- Chronic lymphocytic leukaemia
- Erythrocyte enzyme deficiency
- Erythropoietin deficiency
- Immunohaemolysis
- Microangiopathic haemolysis
- Polycythaemia vera
- Sickle cell disease
- Sideroblastic anaemia
- β-Thalassaemia trait
ZZZZZZ. Sorry I fell asleep reading the question.
6. Please label the diagram with the following headings
Head
Heart
Foot
Other foot
Levator labii superioris alaeque nasi
7. It’s Friday evening, should you
- Read all about G-proteins
- Memorise the Krebs cycle
- Play the “Withnail and I” drinking game and wake up the following morning with a bastard behind the eyes unable to remember anything you’ve learnt the previous week. Hang on, what’s a Krebs cycle again?
