My fifth year 2007/08 - Family Medicine
This was a subject we had in the second semester only.
It consisted of weekly lectures and at the end we visited a family practice (during lecture time).
Family medicine lectures:
- Introduction family medicine
- Diabetes mellitus in family medicine
- Emergency care in family medicine
- Rural family medicine
- Nutrition among elderly. Obesity
- Smoking cessation
- Depression. Sleep disorders
- Rheumatology
- Visit to a family doctor practice in Budapest
- Practicing interviewing skills using video evaluation
- Seminar in the NET building
- Exam


During the last lecture we had a multiple choice exam with 45 questions (the first 17 were single choice, the last questions were combinations):
Here are the questions we got:
- What is the definition of BMI?
- Which is true for major depression?
- What is the correct for the causative relationship between death and smoking?
- What are the categories for BMI?
- Which is true for the life expectancy of smokers?
- Which is true for OGTT?
- Cost of overweight on the health system
- True for waist circumferance and risk of heart disease
- True for primary hypertension and therapy
- Therapy of Diabetes Mellitus (all types)
- True for smoking withdrawal and side effects
- Stepped care approach to obesity
- Basic life support, the protocol
- Lower back pain from musculoskeletal origin
- Lower back pain and bed rest therapy
- Prevention of lower back pain
- Therapy of chronic lower back pain
- OSAS therapy
- Main characteristics of family practice
- Core competencies of family practice
- Components of primary care team
- European definition of family practice
- Hypertensive patient with increased creatinine, what do we expect?
- Match syndromes with the correct outcome
- Match findings with correct pathology
- Match drugs with disease
- What is correct for Diabetes Mellitus and family practice
- Signs of DM
- Primary treatment objectives for DM
- True for second-hand smoking and health risk
- True for pregnancy and smoking
- Emergencies in family medicine
- True for ECG of a person with ACS
- True about obstructive apnea therapy
- Criteria for insomnia
- Which are examples of non-verbal communications?
- DSM-IV definition of parasomnias
- First line drugs used for acute heart failure
- Hypovolemic shock
- Physical activity as therapy
- Which is true for a village as a community?
- The hierarchy in a village
- Traditions and their influences in a village
- True about family doctors in rural areas
- Risk factors for suicide
The exam was very straight forward and the teacher read each question out loud and made sure there was no confusion about what the question was asking.
I was quire impressed with how the exam was carried out. I've seen other departments use PowerPoint like this on exams and there has been a lot of confusion, but not in this case.
