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USMLE Step 2

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. A patient presents with pain on passive movement - pallor - poikilothermia - paresthesias - paralysis - and pulselessness. Treatment?






2. Postnatal mortality?






3. A doctor refers a patient for an MRI at a facility he/she owns.






4. What is the immunodeficiency?






5. Fetal mortality?

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6. Identify key organisms causing diarrhea:






7. Signs of ? ICP (Cushing's triad).






8. Lung cancer associated with SIADH.






9. Complication of overly rapid correction of hyponatremia.






10. Signs of active ischemia during stress testing.






11. Radiographic evidence of aortic disruption or dissection.






12. A painful - recurrent vesicular eruption of mucocutaneous surfaces.






13. Lung cancer highly related to cigarette exposure.






14. Sentinel loop on AXR.






15. The most common cause of hypertension in young women.






16. Albuminocytologic dissociation.






17. The most common 1






18. The most serious side effect of clozapine.






19. Macrocytic - megaloblastic anemia without neurologic symptoms.






20. Glomerulonephritis with hemoptysis.

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21. The most common cancer in men and the most common cause of death from cancer in men.






22. Meningitis in infants. Causes? Treatment?






23. A 20-year - old man presents with a palpable flank mass and hematuria. Ultrasound shows bilateral enlarged kidneys with cysts. Associated brain anomaly?






24. A 55-year - old patient presents with acute 'broken speech.' What type of aphasia? What lobe and vascular distribution?

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25. Goal hemoglobin A1c for a patient with DM.






26. Classic ultrasound and gross appearance of complete hydatidiform mole.

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27. Identify key organisms causing diarrhea:






28. Number needed to treat?






29. Classic physical findings for endocarditis.

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30. A child has loss of red light reflex. Diagnosis?






31. Bilious emesis within hours after the first feeding.






32. Name the defense mechanism:






33. Name the organism:






34. Blood in the urethral meatus or high - riding prostate.






35. ? CO - ? PCWP - ? PVR.






36. A tall white male presents with acute shortness of breath. Diagnosis? Treatment?






37. A 'blueberry muffin' rash is characteristic of what congenital infection?






38. First - line treatment for otitis media.






39. How to distinguish polycythemia vera from 2






40. An agent that reverses the effects of heparin.






41. A patient hasn't slept for days - lost $20 -000 gambling - is agitated - and has pressured speech. Diagnosis? Treatment?






42. The most common inherited hemolytic anemia.






43. Annual screening for women with a strong family history of ovarian cancer.






44. Difference between a cohort and a case - control study.






45. A 55-year - old man has sudden - excruciating first MTP joint pain after a night of drinking red wine. Diagnosis - workup - and chronic treatment?






46. Unopposed estrogen is contraindicated in which cancers?






47. Treatment for postpartum hemorrhage.






48. Normalizing PCO2 in a patient having an asthma exacerbation may indicate?






49. Identify key organisms causing diarrhea:






50. Criteria for exudative effusion.