Family Medicine

Question 1

Malaria treatment in a pregnant female

Answer 1

Mefloquine

Question 2

The most commonly used antibiotic regimen in the prophylaxis of endocarditis

Answer 2

amoxicillin administered 60 minutes prior to a high-risk procedure

Question 3

Woman has three family members with gastrointestinal cancers in two different generations, and one relative was under the age of 50 when diagnosed

Answer 3

Lynch Syndrome

Question 4

Screening recommended for patients with Lynch syndrome

Answer 4

Annual colonoscopy beginning at 20–25 years of age to screen for colorectal cancer,

Question 5

What prophylactic therapy is patient most likely to receive with Lynch syndrome

Answer 5

Hysterectomy with bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy at the end of childbearing age due to the 40% lifetime risk of Endometrial Cancer

Question 6

HIV diagnosis in children < 18 months

Answer 6

PCR

Question 7

Features of microcephaly, spasticity, sensorineural hearing loss, and pigmentary retinal mottling in a newborn, whose mother traveled to Brazil during the first trimester of her pregnancy… Dx

Answer 7

Congenital Zika syndrome

Question 8

1st line Management of Alzheimer’s disease in a patientexperiencing night time insomnia, daytime hypersomnia, and disorientation?

Answer 8

Adhere to regular sleep schedule

Question 9

Cancer anorexia-cachexia syndrome

Answer 9

A syndrome characterized by progressive wasting of skeletal muscle mass with or without loss of body fat that occurs in patients with advanced cancer.

Question 10

Treatment of Cancer anorexia-cachexia syndrome

Answer 10

Corticosteroids (e.g., prednisolone)
Progesterone analogs (e.g., megestrol acetate)
Cannabinoids (e.g., dronabinol)
Nutritional counseling, parenteral nutrition