W3

Question 1

The most common conditions are not typically the most serious and the consequences of missing a serious diagnosis are higher.
True or False?

Answer 1

True

Question 2

What is medical student syndrome?

Answer 2

applying everything to them

Question 3

Define availability heuristic?

Answer 3

• tendency to use information that comes to mind quickly and easily
• favors recent and most memorable experiences

Question 4

Possibilism?

Answer 4

• technically impossible to consider everything
• makes unnecessary long differential list
• extra possibilities add confusion instead of adding any value
• differentials can be added if they add to the diagnosis

Question 5

Mnemonic “VINDICATE” stands for?

Answer 5

V- vascular
I- infectious, inflammatory
N- neoplastic
D- degenerative, drugs, deficiency
I- intoxication, iatrogenic, idiopathic
C- congenital
A- autoimmune, allergy, anatomy
T- traumatic
E- endocrine, environment (metabolic)

Question 6

Define iatrogenic?

Answer 6

relating to illness caused by medical examination of treatment (due to the activity of the physician or therapy)

Question 7

Define idiopathic?

Answer 7

relating to or denoting any disease or condition which arises spontaneously or for which the cause is unknown

Question 8

Define neoplasm?

Answer 8

abnormal growth of tissue that can be benign (non-cancerous) or malignant (cancerous)

Question 9

Prognosis?

Answer 9

“must-not-miss”
which conditions are worst if left unconsidered

Question 10

Pragmatism?

Answer 10

what conditions have the best benefit : harm ratio if treated