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A medical student is practising for her OSCE exams on the ward…
She examines a 19 year old female patient admitted with asthma on the medical assessment ward for revision purposes.
The patient has a past medical history she has the occasional migraine, and eczema.
The observations are as follows.
BP 128/70
Pulse 98 regular
Fingerprick blood glucose 8.3
Oxygen Sats 97% [...]
The answer is….. b. Warfarin
Based on NICE Guidance 36 (AF) and the CHADS 2 scoring system.
The CHADS2 score is an excellent aide memoir to anticoagulation in AF. It is based on:
CHADS2
Stands for
Score
C
Congestive heart failure
1point
H
hypertension
1point
A
Age>75
1point
D
Diabetes Mellitus
1point
S2
Previous stroke/ TIA
2 points
SCORE
2 or over=Warfarin
1= Warfarin or aspirin
0=aspirin
This [...]
UMAP is the Universities Medical Assessment Partnership and is relevant to many medical students from the UK.
It’s essentially the organisation which is writing/ collecting a bank of medical student exam questions for use in ‘high stakes’ examinations, such as medical finals.
UMAP’s description of their activities can be found on their website: On the site they [...]
EMQ’s
EMQ’s are being increasingly used in research and papers have recently been published on their success in the USMLE. Its likely that many medical schools will adopt this N from many approach. An EMQ is simple: its a series of typically 6-10 answers, used a number of times with different question stems.They first cropped up [...]
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