[MCCQE I] Past Recalls
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Medicine
A 50-year-old man presents with a 2 year history of burning pains in the feet, pins and needles in the fingers and toes and weakness and unsteadiness
- System: Endocrine, Diabetes & Metabolism, Nervous System
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Medicine
A 36-year-old Greek man with viral pneumonia has a self-limiting episode of hemolysis. Over the next week, he has an increased rate of reticulocytosis
- System: Pulmonary & Critical Care
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- Unanswered thread
Medicine
A 32-year-old man with AIDS develops right-sided weakness over the course of 1 week. He is on a combined drug regimen of zidovudine (AZT) and a protea
- System: Hematology & Oncology, Nervous System
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- Unanswered thread
Paediatrics
A 4-week-old boy presents with a 10-day history of vomiting that has increased in frequency and forcefulness. The vomitus is not bile-stained but has
- System: Gastrointestinal & Nutrition
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- Unanswered thread
Psychiatry
A 19-year-old man has been happier and more positive than usual, with more energy than he has ever felt before for no particular reason. He has been
- System: Psychiatric/Behavioral & Substance Abuse
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- Unanswered thread
Obstetrics and Gynaecology
A 26-year-old woman visits her physician with complaints of vaginal bleeding after sexual intercourse. She started menses at age 14 years and has 32-d
- System: Female Reproductive System & Breasts, Infectious Diseases
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- Unanswered thread
Medicine
A 65-year-old man presents to the physician’s office with his daughter, who is a resident in internal medicine. She encouraged her father to come in b
- System: Gastrointestinal & Nutrition, Social Sciences (Ethics/Legal/Professional)
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- Unanswered thread
Medicine
A 74-year-old man is brought to the emergency department by ambulance 1 hour after he had an acute witnessed onset of aphasia and right hemiparesis. H
- System: Cardiology & Vascular System, Nervous System
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Medicine
A 64-year-old man complains of 6 months of increasing stiffness in his legs and difficulty with walking. On examination there is wasting of the right
- System: Nervous System, Rheumatology/Orthopedics & Sports
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Medicine
A 22-year-old woman presents with a fusiform swelling of the Achilles tendon, which, when biopsied, shows cholesterol-laden macrophages (foam cells) d
- System: Dermatology, Rheumatology/Orthopedics & Sports
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Medicine
A 68-year-old woman complains of 2 days of cough and purulent sputum and right-sided chest pain exacerbated by breathing. She has had middle back pai
- System: Pulmonary & Critical Care
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Medicine
A 64-year-old woman complains of dragging her right foot and numbness and paraesthesia in that leg. On examination there is foot-drop, with weakness o
- System: Rheumatology/Orthopedics & Sports
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- Unanswered thread
Paediatrics
A baby born at 34 weeks with a heart murmur is kept in the incubator for almost 4 weeks. There is no murmur at discharge. What is the most likely caus
- System: Cardiology & Vascular System
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- Unanswered thread
Obstetrics and Gynaecology
A 36-year-old woman with a family history of hereditary nonpolyposis colon cancer (HN- PCC) presents to her gastroenterologist for her annual examinat
- System: Female Reproductive System & Breasts, Gastrointestinal & Nutrition, Public Health & Preventive Medicine
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- Unanswered thread
Medicine
A 74-year-old woman with dementia has been in the intensive care unit (ICU) for 14 days following acute respiratory decompensation and renal failure.
- System: Miscellaneous (Multisystem), Social Sciences (Ethics/Legal/Professional)
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- Unanswered thread
Medicine
A 74-year-old woman is admitted to the hospital after sustaining a severe left hemispheric ischemic stroke while alone at home. She was last known to
- System: Cardiology & Vascular System
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- Unanswered thread
Medicine
A 35-year-old woman develops weakness of the legs over a period of 7 days. On examination the only abnormalities are generalised weakness of the legs
- System: Allergy & Immunology, Nervous System
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- Unanswered thread
Obstetrics and Gynaecology
A 23-year-old, single, unemployed woman in her eighth month of pregnancy is seen in a volunteer-staffed obstetrics clinic. Her first child, born at ho
- System: Pregnancy, Childbirth & Puerperium, Public Health & Preventive Medicine
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- Unanswered thread
Medicine
A 38-year-old woman is complaining of shortness of breath that started suddenly on the morning of presentation. She is an otherwise healthy woman. She
- System: Cardiology & Vascular System, Pulmonary & Critical Care
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- Unanswered thread
Surgery
A 37-year-old woman undergoes a gastric bypass procedure for morbid obesity. An epidural catheter is inserted immediately before the procedure to help
- System: Gastrointestinal & Nutrition
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