[MCCQE I] Past Recalls
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Surgery
A 35-year-old woman had an uneventful lap chole 18h ago. She has a pulse of 108bpm, temperature of 37.8C. There are signs of reduced air entry at the
- System: Gastrointestinal & Nutrition
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Paediatrics
A neonate with purulent umbilical discharge for 1 day presents with fever, irritability, and diffuse flushing. One day later she is covered in large,
- System: Infectious Diseases
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Medicine
A 75-year-old woman is brought to the emergency department after being found unresponsive at her home. She was last spoken to by her daughter on the p
- System: Miscellaneous (Multisystem)
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Medicine
A 60-year-old man is evaluated for progressive exertional dyspnea. For the past year, he has been unable to walk three blocks without stopping twice b
- System: Pulmonary & Critical Care
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Medicine
A 69-year-old alcoholic has had severe, progressively increasing epigastric pain for the past 24 hours. He has been nauseous, and he vomited three tim
- System: Allergy & Immunology
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Medicine
A 55-year-old, homeless, alcoholic man who has recently been binging complains of 2 weeks of fever, malaise, productive cough, and pain on deep inspir
- System: Pulmonary & Critical Care
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Obstetrics and Gynaecology
A 26-year-old woman (gravida 3, para 2), whose only Papanicolaou (Pap) smear test was done five years ago and was normal, is admitted to hospital at 3
- System: Pregnancy, Childbirth & Puerperium
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Surgery
A 20-year-old pop star singer complains of inability to raise the pitch of her voice. She attributes this to the thyroid surgery that she underwent a
- System: Ear, Nose & Throat (ENT)
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Paediatrics
A 4-year-old boy presents to the pediatric emergency department with the classic meningitis triad of fever, headache, and nuchal rigidity. A lumbar pu
- System: Infectious Diseases
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Medicine
A 52-year-old African-American woman with type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) presents to her physician’s office and states that she has been “feeling lousy
- System: Endocrine, Diabetes & Metabolism
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Medicine
A 56-year-old woman is evaluated for a 2-year history of episodic cough and chest tightness. Her symptoms began after a severe respiratory tract infec
- System: Pulmonary & Critical Care
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Medicine
A researcher is studying the substance para-aminohippuric acid (PAH) and its interaction with the kidneys. She injects a volunteer with the substance.
- System: Biostatistics & Epidemiology
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Psychiatry
An 83-year-old woman presents with a 1-year history of increasing forgetfulness and inattentiveness. She has had episodes of confusion, usually occurr
- System: Psychiatric/Behavioral & Substance Abuse
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Medicine
Histocompatibility matching has been most valuable in clinice practice for which one of the following human allografts from cadaver donors?
- System: Miscellaneous (Multisystem)
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Obstetrics and Gynaecology
A 28-year-old woman at 39 weeks gestation is in labor. She develops abdominal pain and vital signs are as follow: heart rate is 125bpm, blood pressure
- System: Pregnancy, Childbirth & Puerperium
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Medicine
A 32-year-old man presents to his doctor with painful urination and a purulent urethral discharge. The image shows cells that have been cultured from
- System: Infectious Diseases
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Obstetrics and Gynaecology
A 26-year-old G1P0 woman at 12 weeks’ gestation presents to her obstetrician for her first visit. Her pregnancy thus far has been notable only for som
- System: Pregnancy, Childbirth & Puerperium
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Medicine
A 60-year-old man is hospitalized because of progressive dyspnea during the past month. He has a 45-pack-year smoking history, but he has no other med
- System: Miscellaneous (Multisystem)
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Medicine
A 57-year-old woman with a 30-year history of alcoholism and liver disease visits her physician complaining of abdominal swelling and shortness of bre
- System: Gastrointestinal & Nutrition
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Medicine
A 45-year-old man presents with respiratory difficulty and right chest pain. His temperature is 37.7 C (99.9 F) and respirations are 24/min and shallo
- System: Pulmonary & Critical Care
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