[MCCQE I] Past Recalls
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Medicine
A 39-year-old California rancher consults a physician because of chronic abdominal pain. The man has been a sheepherder for 23 years. Physical examina
- System: Gastrointestinal & Nutrition, Infectious Diseases
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- Unanswered thread
Medicine
Which one of the following would be most in keeping with an obstructing stone in the (common) bile duct?
- System: Gastrointestinal & Nutrition
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- Unanswered thread
Medicine
A 32-year-old previously healthy woman has developed pain and swelling of both knees and ankles with nodular rash over her shins. As part of the inves
- System: Miscellaneous (Multisystem)
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- Unanswered thread
Medicine
Twenty-four hours after placement of a catheter, a hospitalized patient develops a fever and chills. Within 1 hour her systolic blood pressure falls 3
- System: Miscellaneous (Multisystem)
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- Unanswered thread
Surgery
A 58-year-old woman presents to her physician because of neck discomfort and difficulty swallowing. She first began to have difficulty with swallowing
- System: Endocrine, Diabetes & Metabolism
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- Unanswered thread
Medicine
A 20-year-old woman is evaluated in the emergency department for an acute episode of wheezing and dyspnea without cough or sputum production. She has
- System: Ear, Nose & Throat (ENT), Pulmonary & Critical Care
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- Unanswered thread
Medicine
A 32-year-old man visits the physician for a periodic health maintenance examination. He has no complaints at this time. He is 170 cm (5 ft 7 in) tall
- System: Public Health & Preventive Medicine
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- Unanswered thread
Medicine
A solitary nodule is detected on a chest x-ray film in an otherwise healthy 25-year-old man. The patient has been smoking 10 cigarettes daily for 3 ye
- System: Pulmonary & Critical Care
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- Unanswered thread
Psychiatry
Clinical features of schizophrenia may include thought disorder, spontaneous remission, negative symptoms, poor response to medication and persecutory
- System: Psychiatric/Behavioral & Substance Abuse
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- Unanswered thread
Paediatrics
A neonate’s chest X-ray shows double bubble sign. On examination this patient has low set ears, flat occiput. What is the most likely diagnosis?
- System: Public Health & Preventive Medicine
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- Unanswered thread
Obstetrics and Gynaecology
A 31-year-old pregnant woman comes to the physician because of painful vesicular lesions that have recently appeared on her genitalia. A positive resu
- System: Pregnancy, Childbirth & Puerperium
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- Unanswered thread
Medicine
A 49-year-old woman presents to her physician’s office with a long-standing history of polydipsia, polyuria, central obesity, and hyperlipidemia. She
- System: Endocrine, Diabetes & Metabolism
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- Unanswered thread
Medicine
A 65-year-old woman is admitted with a 3-week history of headache over the right temporal region, malaise, fever, morning stiffness, and weight loss.
- System: Ophthalmology
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- Unanswered thread
Paediatrics
A 3-year-old girl has had fever and swelling of her right eye for 24 hours. On examination, she looks unwell, has a fever of 38.8℃, right periorbital
- System: Ophthalmology
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Medicine
A man presents with scrotal swelling, the swelling is cystic and is non-tender. It is located in the upper pole of the posterior part of the testis. W
- System: Male Reproductive System
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- Unanswered thread
Paediatrics
A 13-year-old girl who returned a few days ago from a school camping trip in North Carolina is home ill from school. She tells her parents that she ha
- System: Infectious Diseases
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- Unanswered thread
Medicine
A 42-year-old woman presents to her physician with complaints of fever (38.2°C [100.8°F]) and mild-to-moderate anterior neck pain. On examination the
- System: Endocrine, Diabetes & Metabolism
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Medicine
A 55-year-old man is found to have a pleural effusion after a 2-week history of cough, sputum production, dyspnea, chills, and pleuritic chest pain. U
- System: Miscellaneous (Multisystem)
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Surgery
A 71-year-old woman undergoes an elective sigmoid resection for recurrent diverticulitis. On the second postoperative day, it is noted that her urinar
- System: Gastrointestinal & Nutrition, Renal, Urinary Systems & Electrolytes
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- Unanswered thread
Medicine
A 35-year-old man goes to the emergency department because he has developed a severe case of hives. He has never had hives before. Physical examinatio
- System: Infectious Diseases
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