This site will look much better in a browser that supports web standards, but it is accessible to any browser or Internet device.

BudapestStudent.com


 

 

 

 

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:

  1. Introduction family medicine
  2. Diabetes mellitus in family medicine
  3. Emergency care in family medicine
  4. Rural family medicine
  5. Nutrition among elderly. Obesity
  6. Smoking cessation
  7. Depression. Sleep disorders
  8. Rheumatology
  9. Visit to a family doctor practice in Budapest
  10. Practicing interviewing skills using video evaluation
  11. Seminar in the NET building
  12. 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:

  1. What is the definition of BMI?
  2. Which is true for major depression?
  3. What is the correct for the causative relationship between death and smoking?
  4. What are the categories for BMI?
  5. Which is true for the life expectancy of smokers?
  6. Which is true for OGTT?
  7. Cost of overweight on the health system
  8. True for waist circumferance and risk of heart disease
  9. True for primary hypertension and therapy
  10. Therapy of Diabetes Mellitus (all types)
  11. True for smoking withdrawal and side effects
  12. Stepped care approach to obesity
  13. Basic life support, the protocol
  14. Lower back pain from musculoskeletal origin
  15. Lower back pain and bed rest therapy
  16. Prevention of lower back pain
  17. Therapy of chronic lower back pain
  18. OSAS therapy
  19. Main characteristics of family practice
  20. Core competencies of family practice
  21. Components of primary care team
  22. European definition of family practice
  23. Hypertensive patient with increased creatinine, what do we expect?
  24. Match syndromes with the correct outcome
  25. Match findings with correct pathology
  26. Match drugs with disease
  27. What is correct for Diabetes Mellitus and family practice
  28. Signs of DM
  29. Primary treatment objectives for DM
  30. True for second-hand smoking and health risk
  31. True for pregnancy and smoking
  32. Emergencies in family medicine
  33. True for ECG of a person with ACS
  34. True about obstructive apnea therapy
  35. Criteria for insomnia
  36. Which are examples of non-verbal communications?
  37. DSM-IV definition of parasomnias
  38. First line drugs used for acute heart failure
  39. Hypovolemic shock
  40. Physical activity as therapy
  41. Which is true for a village as a community?
  42. The hierarchy in a village
  43. Traditions and their influences in a village
  44. True about family doctors in rural areas
  45. 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.