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USMLE Step 2

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Renal tubular acidosis (RTA) associated with abnormal H+ secretion and nephrolithiasis.






2. Medication used to induce ovulation.






3. A 21-year - old male has three months of social withdrawal - worsening grades - flattened affect - and concrete thinking.






4. A 50-year - old male presents with early satiety - splenomegaly - and bleeding. Cytogenetics show t(9 -22). Diagnosis?






5. Reynolds' pentad.


6. Chronic diseases such as SLE






7. Unopposed estrogen is contraindicated in which cancers?






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


9. 'Stuck - on' appearance.






10. Cause of neonatal RDS.






11. Heinz bodies?






12. First - line treatment for moderate hypercalcemia.






13. After a minor fender bender - a man wears a neck brace and requests permanent disability.






14. Eight surgically correctable causes of hypertension.


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






16. In which patients do you initiate colorectal cancer screening early?






17. Honeycomb pattern on CXR. Diagnosis? Treatment?






18. Treatment of tension pneumothorax.






19. Criteria for exudative effusion.






20. A nonsuppurative complication of streptococcal infection that is not altered by treatment of 1






21. Nikolsky's sign.






22. A lesion characteristically occurring in a linear pattern in areas where skin comes into contact with clothing or jewelry.






23. Aplastic crisis in sickle cell disease.






24. Identify key organisms causing diarrhea:






25. Tanner stage 3 in a six-year - old female.






26. Treatment for ventricular fibrillation.






27. CSF findings:






28. A history significant for initial altered mental status with an intervening lucid interval. Diagnosis? Most likely etiology? Treatment?






29. Medical treatment for IBD.






30. Treatment for neuroleptic malignant syndrome.






31. A man has repeated - intense urges to rub his body against unsuspecting passengers on a bus.






32. Sensitive tests have few false negatives and are used to rule _____ a disease.






33. Treatment for acetaminophen overdose.






34. Medications and viruses that ? aplastic anemia.






35. Rigidity and stiffness with resting tremor and masked facies.


36. A patient with a history of lithium use presents with copious amounts of dilute urine.






37. Cold agglutinins.






38. Glomerulonephritis with hemoptysis.


39. Fetal mortality?


40. Risk factors for pyelonephritis.






41. Hematuria - flank pain - and palpable flank mass.






42. The most common pituitary tumor. Treatment?






43. Identify key organisms causing diarrhea:






44. What is the immunodeficiency?






45. Sentinel loop on AXR.






46. Breast cancer type that ? the future risk of invasive carcinoma in both breasts.






47. Contraceptive methods that protect against PID.






48. An autosomal - recessive disorder with a defect in the GPIIbIIIa platelet receptor and ? platelet aggregation.


49. Precipitants of hemolytic crisis in patients with G6PD deficiency.






50. Honey- crusted lesions.