Clinical Vignettes for the USMLE Step 2 CK:Fifth Edition parallels this format. The book contains 368 clinical vignette-style questions covering the principles of clinical science and was assembled based on the published content outline for the USMLE Step 2. The questions are divided into eight blocks of 46 questions each. As on the Step 2 CK exam, each block tests the examinee on all core areas of clinical medicine. Answers are in the second half of the book. Each answer is accompanied by a concise but comprehensive explanation and is referenced to a key textbook or journal article for further reading.
PreTest is the closest you can get to seeing the test before you take it Great preparation for the USMLE Step 2 CK!Clinical Vignettes for the USMLE Step 2 OK: PreTest asks the right questions so youll know the right answers. Open it and start learning whats on the test. STUDENT TESTED AND REVIEWED 8 blocks of 46 clinical vignette-style questions - just like the actual exam 368 USMLE Step 2 CK-style questions, nswers, and explanations Explanations for right and wrong answers All answers referenced to core texts and journals 368 USMLE Step 2 CK-style questions, answers, and explanations 8 blocks of 46 questions simulate the exam Targets what you really need to know Student tested and reviewed
The current format of the United States Medical Licensing Examination Step 2 Clinical Knowledge (USMLE Step 2 CK) exam emphasizes clinical vignettes——in single-best-answer multiple-choice and matching formats——- as the primary test questions. The examination has approximately 370 multiple-choice questions, divided into eight blocks. Examinees have one hour to complete each block administered over a nine-hour testing session.
Clinical Vignettes for the USMLE Step 2 CK: Fifth Edition parallels this format. The book contains 368 clinical vignette-style questions covering the principles of clinical science and was assembled based on the published content outline for the USMLE Step 2. The questions are divided into eight blocks of 46 questions each. As on the Step 2 CK exam, each block tests the examinee on all core areas of clinical medicine. Answers are in the second half of the book. Each answer is accompanied by a concise but comprehensive explanation and is referenced to a key textbook or journal article for further reading.
The questions in this book were culled from the eight PreTest clinical science books.
Preface
Questions
Block 1
Block 2
Block 3
Block 4
Block 5
Block 6
Block 7
Block 8
Answers
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Block 2
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Block 8
Bibliography
3-41. A 35-year-old businessman has sleep attacks. He runs a chain of dry-cleaning stores, but does not usually work with the cleaning fluids. He reports falling asleep several times during the workday, even at business meetings and during interviews. He has developed the sleep attacks only after gaining more than 100 lb. His weight at the time of the examination is 324 lb.
3-42. A i9-year-old man develops obvious personality changes over the course of 2 weeks. He becomes agitated with little provocation and abuses his wife both verbally and physically. His behavior is sufficiently atypical for it to prompt his relatives to seek psychiatric assistance for him. While being interviewed by a psychiatrist, he becomes unresponsive and develops generalized convulsions with opisthotonic posturing, tonicclonic limb movements, and urinary incontinence. He is hospitalized for investigation of his seizure disorder. On initial examination, he is noted to have a low- grade fever and a mild left hemiparesis. His CSF opening pressure is 210 mm H2O. His CSF cultures yield no growth, and his EEG reveals polyspike-and-wave discharges originating in the right temporal lobe. ACT of his brain reveals focal swelling of the right temporal lobe.
3-43. A previously healthy 25-year-old woman develops acute loss of vision in her left eye. She awakens with pain in the eye and reduction of her acuity to perception of light and dark. She delays seeing a physician for 1 week, during which time her acuity gradually improves sufficiently to allow her to read. On examination, the physician discovers she has slurred speech and poor rapid alternating movements with the left hand. Ocular dysmetria is evident in both eyes. Her tandem gait is grossly impaired. The physician obtains an EEG, which is normal.