Examination Questions

Question 1

What is the normal range for heart rate?

Answer 1

60-100

Question 2

CARDIO: what are you looking for in the hands?

Answer 2

Nicotine staining
Clubbing
Palmer creases

Question 3

CARDIO: What is the normal measurement of the JVP

Answer 3

<3 cm

Question 4

CARDIO: What is the anatomical position of the apex beat?

Answer 4

5th intercostal space, mid clavicular line

Question 5

CARDIO: Where are the different valves ausculated?

Answer 5

Aortic: upper right sternal edge (2nd ICS)
Pulmonary: uppler left sternal edge (2nd ICS)
Tricuspid: lower left sternal edge (5th ICS)
Mitral: where the apex is

Question 6

CARDIO: what are the borders of the heart?

Answer 6

Right sternal edge (2nd)
Left sternal edge (3rd)
Right sternal edge (6th)
Left mid ICS (5th)

Question 7

RESP: What are the borders of the lung?

Answer 7

Along sternal border from apex to 4th costal cartilage.
Right lung arcs down to the 6th rib in the mid-clavicular line, the 8th rib in mid axillary line and 10th rib adjacent to the vertebral column

Question 8

RESP: what are is the normal range for RR?

Answer 8

12-16

Question 9

RESP: Where does the trachea bifurcate?

Answer 9

At the level of the manubriosternal junction (2nd costal cartilage, T4/5

Question 10

RESP: Where are the apexes of the lung?

Answer 10

2.5 cm above the medial 3rd of the calvicle

Question 11

GIT: What are the 6 signs you are looking for on the hand?

Answer 11

Nicotine
Clubbing
Palmer creases
Dupeytrens contracture
Leuconychia
Metabolic flap

Question 12

GIT: What are the features you are looking for on the chest and abdomen?

Answer 12

Scars
Gynaecomastia
Striae
Caput medusa
Spider veins

Question 13

GIT: what is the normal span of the liver?

Answer 13

12-13 cm

Question 14

GIT: What are the organs in the RUQ?

Answer 14

Liver, gallbladder

Question 15

GIT: what are the organs in the LUQ?

Answer 15

Spleen, stomach

Question 16

GIT: Where is McBurney’s point?

Answer 16

1/3 of the along the line between the umbilicus and the midpoint

Question 17

GIT: Where are the kidneys located?

Answer 17

Left: XI
Right: XII

Question 18

GIT: Where is the spleen located?

Answer 18

Left ribs behind IX, X and XI.

Question 19

Lower limb: What are you looking for when observing the gait of the patient?

Answer 19

Fluidity

Asymmetry

Question 20

Lower limb: What are you looking for in general inspection?

Answer 20

Scars/deformities, muscle bulk, fasiculations

Question 21

Lower limb: What is paraparesis?

Answer 21

Incomplete loss of strength to legs

Question 22

Lower limb: What is monoplegia?

Answer 22

Complete loss of strength to one limb

Question 23

Lower limb sensory: Where do pain fibres decussate?

Answer 23

Spinal Cord

Question 24

Lower limb sensory: Where do proprioceptive fibres decussate?

Answer 24

Medulla

Question 25

Lower limb sensory: Where do soft touch decussate?

Answer 25

Medulla

Question 26

Lower limb sensory: Where are the dermatomes?

Answer 26

Label them

Question 27

Optic: What does 6/12 vision mean?

Answer 27

Patient can read something at 6 m that a normal person can read at 12 m

Question 28

Optic: What does the pinhole do?

Answer 28

Correct for refractive errors

Question 29

Optic: What effect would a unilateral lesion before the optic chiasm have on a patient's visual field?

Answer 29

Unilateral blindness

Question 30

Optic: What cranial nerves are examined in the pupillary light reflex?

Answer 30

CNII (optic) | CNIII (opthalmic)

Question 31

Upper limb: What are the myotomes for biceps, brachialis, triceps and finger?

Answer 31

Bicep C5,6 Brachialis C5,6 Triceps C7,8 Finger C8

Question 32

Upper limb: What lesion is being tested in the finger-nose test?

Answer 32

Posterior cerebellar lesion

Question 33

Upper limb: What lesion is being tested in the Hand rapid alternating test?

Answer 33

Anterior Cerebellar Lesion

Question 34

Upper limb: Where are the dermatomes of the upper limb?

Answer 34

Show me

Question 35

Knee: Why do you push down above before performing the patellar tap?

Answer 35

The suprapatellar bursa communicates with the knee joint

Question 36

Knee: What are you palpating for at the back of the knee?

Answer 36

Baker's cyst

Question 37

Knee: What is the normal range of the knee?

Answer 37

0 degree in extension | 135 degree in flexion

Question 38

Shoulder: What features are you looking for in inspection?

Answer 38

Swelling, redness, scars, muscle wasting

Question 39

Shoulder: What are the anatomical landmarks you are feeling palpation stage?

Answer 39

Sternoclavicular, clavicle, acromioclavicular, coracoid process, anterior gelnonumeral joint line, biceps tendon, spine of scapula, medial border to inferior pole

Question 40

Shoulder: What is normal range of motion of the shoulder extension?

Answer 40

70 degrees

Question 41

Shoulder: What is normal range of motion of the shoulder external rotation?

Answer 41

90 degrees

Question 42

Shoulder: How far up the back should a normal person able to feel?

Answer 42

Lower border of the scapula T7