PMP LE3 (2025) Flashcards
- In the 11th century, Avicenna wrote this book on medicaments that continued to serve for 500 years
A. “Canon on Medicine”
B. “De Materia Medica”
C. Pen T’sao
D. Treatise on Poisons
A. “Canon on Medicine”
- This is the long reputed very ancient great Chinese herbal that included over a hundred medicinal vegetables and other remedies
A. “Canon on Medicine”
B. “De Materia Medica”
C. Pen T’sao
D. Treatise on Poisons
C. Pen T’sao
- An Arabic alchemist who whose works include a systematic treatise on poisons
A. Avicenna
B. Dioscorides
C. Ibn Sina
D. Jabir ibn Hayyan
D. Jabir ibn Hayyan
- Which of the following is TRUE of Galen of Pergamum
A. Brilliant diagnostician
B. Canon on Medicine
C. Produced the “De Materia Medica”
D. Used mineral and metallic remedies
A. Brilliant diagnostician
- It acts on the neuromuscular junction causing paralysis.
A. Aspirin
B. Curare
C. Ether
D. Quinine
B. Curare
- Hippocratic medicine is said to be the foundation of scientific medicine. Diagnosis was done mainly through inspection of:
A. Blood
B. Phlegm
C. Stool
D. Urine
C. Stool
- The practice ancient to Hindu medicine that used mainly plant sources:
A. Alternative medicine
B. Ayurvedic medicine
C. Brahman medicine
D. Homeopathic medicine
B. Ayurvedic medicine
8.The discovery of which of the following advanced the field of surgery:
A. Antibiotics
B. Curare
C. Ether
D. Quinine
C. Ether
- The first randomized controlled clinical trial (London, 1946) was:
A. Aspirin for myocardial infarction treatment
B. Penicillin for the treatment of Streptococcal pharyngitis
C. Streptomycin for the treatment of TB
D. Vincristine for cancer treatment
C. Streptomycin for the treatment of TB
- Among the first to distinguish the functions of arteries and veins and believed that arteries contained air or “pneuma” instead of blood
A. Galen
B. Herophilus
C. Hippocrates
D. Praxagoras
D. Praxagoras
- Which of the following remedy is NOT of Opium?
A. Cough
B. Diarrhea
C. Pain
D. Sleeplessness
A. Cough
- Which of the following is NOT a derivative of Opium (from the poppy seed)?
A. Aspirin
B. Codeine
C. Heroin
D. Morphine
A. Aspirin
- Recognized the importance of physiology and chemistry as basic knowledge in modern medicine:
A. Claude Bernard
B. Roy Porter
C. William Osler
D. William Perkin
C. William Osler
- He attempted to manufacture quinine but instead discovered the world’s first synthetic dye in the 1800s
A. Claude Bernard
B. Roy Porter
C. William Osler
D. William Perkin
D. William Perkin
- Discovered Arsphenamine as a drug for syphilis:
A. Edward Jenner
B. Lemuel Shattuck
C. Paul Ehrlich
D. Roberto Koch
C. Paul Ehrlich
- This drug was discovered in 1910 and was regarded as the first chemotherapeutic synthetic drug described to be as a “magic bullet”
A. Aspirin
B. Codeine
C. Opium 3
D. Salvarsan
D. Salvarsan
arsphenamine/ compound 606
- This drug was popularly used as a sedative in the 1950s but was discovered to cause congenital malformations including phocomelia
A. Aminopterin
B. Arsphenamine
C. Doxorubicin
D. Thalidomide
D. Thalidomide
- What was used to treat high blood pressure in ancient Indian medicine?
A. Cinchona
B. Foxglove
C. Poppy seed
D. Snakeroot
D. Snakeroot
- Who was the 16th century radical Renaissance physician who questioned the traditional practice of medicine and introduced chemical remedies produced through experiments?
A. Avicenna
B. Celsus
C. Paracelsus
D. Pierre Louis
C. Paracelsus
- Elaborate rituals concerning hygiene, cleanliness against defiling pollution.
A. Christians
B. Jehovah’s Witness
C. Judaism
D. Tribal Medicine
C. Judaism
- Rejected smallpox and vaccinations
A. Calvinists
B. Jehovah’s Witness
C. Judaism
D. Tribal Medicine
A. Calvinists
- Denied germ theory and refused blood transfusions.
A. Calvinists
B. Jehovah’s Witness
C. Judaism
D. Tribal Medicine
B. Jehovah’s Witness
- Identify the concept: Body is separate from the mind (theology, morality, etc)
A. 17th - 18th century
B. 19th century
C. 20th century
D. 21st century
A. 17th - 18th century
- Controversy raged over the value of disease classification, or nosology
A. 18th century
B. 19th century
C. 20th century
D. 21st century
A. 18th century
- Identify the concept: Body is separate from the mind (theology, morality, etc)
A. 17th - 18th century
B. 19th century
C. 20th century
D. 21st century
A. 17th - 18th century
- Identify the concept: Molecular biology started during this period
A. 17th - 18th century
B. 19th century
C. 20th century
D. 21st century
C. 20th century
- Which of the following diseases in the 18th century is NOT included?
A. Cholera
B. HIV
C. Small pox
D. Typhus
B. HIV
- For every sickness there is usually an inflamed organ, an obstruction or pathogen
A. 17th - 18th century
B. 19th century
C. 20th century
D. 21st century
A. 17th - 18th century
- Progress in biochemistry, endocrinology and neurology
A.17th - 18th century
B.19th century
C.20th century
D.21st century
C. 20th century
- Identify the associated concept: “Triggered by pathogen”
A. Disease
B. Illness
C. Both
D. None of the above
A. Disease
- Identify the associated concept: “Triggered by pathogen”
A. Disease
B. Illness
C. Both
D. None of the above
A. Disease
- Identify the associated concept: “Seen as symptoms”
A. Disease
B. Illness
C. Both
D. None of the above
A. Disease
- Identify the associated concept: “Objective findings”
A. Disease
B. Illness
C. Both
D. None of the above
A. Disease
- Identify the associated concept: “Subjective findings”
A. Disease
B. Illness
C. Both
D. None of the above
B. Illness
- Medical View of Illness: Sickness was of the body, and that the body formed part of the comprehensive economy of Nature.
A. Condition of Early Greece
B. Graeco Roman Medicine
C. Hippocratic Tradition
D. Humours
C. Hippocratic Tradition
- Medical View of Illness: No state privileges or legal safeguards for the medical art.
A. Condition of Early Greece
B. Graeco Roman Medicine
C. Hippocratic Tradition
D. Humours
A. Condition of Early Greece
- Medical View of Illness: It was secular and naturalistic
A. Condition of Early Greece
B. Graeco Roman Medicine
C. Hippocratic Tradition
D. Humours
B. Graeco Roman Medicine
- Medical View of Illness: Those fluid whose equilibrium was vital for life.
A. Condition of Early Greece
B. Graeco Roman Medicine
C. Hippocratic Tradition
D. Humours
D. Humours
- This ethical principle involves treating a patient according to the patient’s desires within the bounds of accepted treatment.
A. Patient autonomy
B. Non-maleficence
C. Beneficence
D. justice
A. Patient autonomy
- This principle may justify restrictions on patient autonomy
A. Principle of informed consent
B. Harm principle
C. Principle of social justice
D. Principle of respect for persons
B. Harm principle
- Medical triage is based on the principle of
A. Patient autonomy
B. Non-maleficence
C. Beneficence
D. Justice
E. Utility
D. Justice
- What is required from us when applying the principle of beneficence?
A. determine the patient’s views of what does and does not count as harms to be avoided
B. Determine the patient’s views of what does and does not count as goods to be pursued
C. stop an individual whose autonomy is restricted or violated from causing harm to others
D. determine the wishes of the patient in order to protect his or her autonomy
B. Determine the patient’s views of what does and does not count as goods to be pursued
- The DOH is planning to roll out PCV vaccination as part of the Expanded Program of Immunization (EPI). Health technology assessment (HTA) by the DOH HTA committee has determined the PCV10 (which prevents 10 strains of pneumonia) is cheaper and can prevent most cases of pneumonia in children. PCV13, although can prevent 13 strains of pneumonia, is much more costly and can be administered to less children. Choosing PCV10 conforms to the principle of
A. Patient autonomy
B. Non-maleficence
C. Beneficence
D. Justice
E. Utility
D. Justice
- The least controversial treatment is one that
A. accords with the interest of the patient
B. is consistent with the highest standard and most expensive care within the profession
C. is agreed to by the relatives and main family decision maker
D. satisfies either principle of
non-maleficence and beneficence
A. accords with the interest of the patient