PedsCases in The Clinical Teacher
November 4
Congratulations to Peter Gill, Lauren Kitney, Mel Lewis and the rest of the PedsCases team on their recent publication of a paper in The Clinical Teacher. Good work guys!
OphthoStudent.com in Canadian Journal of Ophthalmology
October 26
An article on OphthoStudent.com, one of the QuizMD-powered speciality sites, was recently accepted for publication in the Canadian Journal of Ophthalmology. Congrats to Nawaaz Nathoo and Ian Sutanto on this publication. Please support them by visiting the site.
PlasticStudent.com at CSPS
April 27
One of the QuizMD-powered speciality sites, PlasticStudent.com will be presented at the 2009 Canadian Society of Plastic Surgeons annual conference in Kelowna, BC. Click the link to check out the site!
Exciting new features
December 29
QuizMD now offers recall quizzes to test you on the types of clinical questions you get asked on the wards. Be prepared! Prove to yourself you know the material. See this page on postpartum hemorrhage for an example. Also, these pages incorporate search results from the TRIP Database for in-depth reading. Many thanks to TRIP for this excellent service.
Random question
A sick looking 78-year old man presents with a warm, erythematous, sharply demarcated plaque that's been enlarging over the last few days. The most likely diagnosis is:
Topics:
dermatology
Contributor: Daniel KozanNews feed
Kemi Oluyole created a question:
Which of the following is an indication for surgery in an asymptomatic Primary Hyper-parathyroid ...
David Cummings
commented on the question A child with which one of the following conditions is least likely to develop amblyopia?:
Eibschitz-Tsimhoni M et al., 2007 - Congenital exotropia is rare and is associated with a high incidence of amblyopia
It actually leads to a great...
Kevin V. Plumley
commented on the question A twenty-year-old intravenous drug abuser is admitted to the hospital with fever and a heart murm...:
Source: Miró JM, del Río A, Mestres CA. Infective endocarditis in intravenous drug abusers and HIV-1 infected patients. Infect Dis Clin North Am. J...
Kevin V. Plumley
commented on the question A 4 month old infant presents with Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia. Immunologic testing reveals l...:
Source: http://www.merck.com/mmpe/sec13/ch164/ch164j.html
Hyper-IgM syndrome is an Ig deficiency characterized by normal or elevated serum IgM lev...
Kevin V. Plumley
commented on the question What is the causative agent for Q-fever?:
Source: http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/qfever/
Signs and Symptoms in Humans
Only about one-half of all people infected with C. burnetii show signs...
Kevin V. Plumley
commented on the question 45 yr old man develops severe pain and swelling in the submandibular region. He had a dental extr...:
Ludwig's angina is characterized as a rapidly progressive gangrenous cellulitis of the soft tissues of the neck and floor of the mouth.[52] With pr...
Kevin V. Plumley
commented on the question A mother brings her 6-yr old son into your office complaining of recurrent croup since the age of...:
Laryngomalacia is the most common cause of congenital stridor. Laryngomalacia usually appears within the first several days to weeks after birth. I...
Kevin V. Plumley
commented on the question A mother brings her 6-yr old son into your office complaining of recurrent croup since the age of...:
Laryngomalacia - Very Common. Typically not life-threatening obstruction resultant to infolding of the immature infantile or elderly cartilage of t...
Kevin V. Plumley
commented on the question A 65 yr-old lady comes into your office complaining of 6-month history of pulsatile tinnitus in h...:
glomus jugulare tumor (or glomus body)-collection of highly vascular paraganglionic tissue, originating from the chief cells.
Typically benign, ra...
Kevin V. Plumley
commented on the question Which of the following is not a direct branch of the external carotid artery?:
The submental artery is a branch of the facial
Thank you
[Your name here]
QuizMD is funded entirely by donations. Help keep it ad free!
Click here to contact us