Hospital Therapy Exam

I just had my Hos. Therapy exam today. Everything went fairly well. The exam starts at 9-ish and is held at the 15th City Hospital, main building – in the area just in front of the conference hall.

For this exam, you will need to answer two situational questions – provide the diagnosis, classification, investigation and treatment. You can find the questions here. There are 40 variants all together. Each variant has 3 questions but you only need to answer two (there will only be 2 questions on your ticket during the exam). The every third question is either a professional disease or an infectious disease. These situational questions will be re-used in 6th year during the state exam. Packed together with the situational question is a list of all relevant questions only. Depending on the teacher who you are allocated to, it may or may not be difficult. Several did fail. And oh, it’s viva voce.

For each disease, you will need to know the medical treatment, groups of drugs and examples. Doses are not required.

After you have answered the 2 questions, you will be given an ECG which you will need to decipher and state the abnormalities.

Now, here’s the fun part. It is impossible to cheat in this exam. Impossible. The tables are arranged in the middle of the hall. One person to each table, surrounded by teachers on all sides, plus the additional interns walking around keeping an eye out.

Therapy is not a very difficult subject to study. I finished reading both of the Internal Diseases books in 2 days. If I can do it, anyone can.

Happy studying!

Heart Sounds MP3

How good are you at distinguishing heart sounds? Have you even any idea what I’m talking about? This collection of MP3s is very useful for second and third year students, great exposure for first years and an excellent refreshers’ course for the rest.

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New Books Rearranged

Hi guys,

I’ve recently managed to get my hands on a lot of medical books in electronic form. I’ve posted up some previously but I’ll post them up again, this time arranged in the order of the year you’ll be needing them.

1st year

• Pocket atlas of human anatomy
• Gray’s anatomy
• A guide to dissection of the human body

2nd year

• Cases on Microbiology
• Talley Clinical Examination
• Pulmonary Physiology
• Principles of clinical pharmacology
• McLeod clinical examination
• Harper’s biochemistry
• Guyton medical physiology
• CVS physiology concepts

3rd year

• Textbook of surgery
• Surgical Anatomy
• Robbins Pathologic Basis of Diseases
• Oxford handbook of clinical medicine
• Manual of Surgery
• Learning surgery
• Surgery Q&A
• Internal medicine facts
• Harrison’s
• ECG made easy
• ABCs of clinical ECG
• ebc pathphys

4th & 5th year

• Williams Obstetrics
• Upper GI Surgery
• The pregnancy book
• Pulmonary Therapy secrets
• Psychologist book of personality tests
• Oxford handbook of respiratory and pulmonary medicine
• Oxford handbook of psychiatry
• Oxford handbook of clinical diagnosis
• O&G secrets
• O&G at a glance
• Obstetrics by 10 teachers
• Neurology and neurosurgery illustrated
• How to examine the nervous system
• Essential neurology
• Cranial nerves functional anatomy
• Manual of nephrology
• Paediatrics Illustrated
• OBGYN lecture notes
• Essential OBGYN
• Paediatrics diagnostic exams
• Opthalmology at a glance
• Colour atlas of Ophthalmology
• Handbook of psychiatric drugs
• Handbook of fractures
• Current essential orthopedics
• GI and liver secrets
• ENT secrets
• Color Atlas of ENT Diagnosis (New)
• Dermatology illustrated
• Dermatology notes
• Poisoning and Drug Overdose (Toxicology) — NEW

More about Therapy

Hey guys,

Here are some “study material” for you. Have this in hand early to prepare for your Fac. Therapy exam. During the exam, you will be asked to hand in your mobile phones and empty your pockets. You will then be given a bilet consisting of about 3 questions, an ECG and an X-ray. You will then be put in a room with other students (including Russians) where you have to prepare your answers. It’s not all that strict. Make sure you do it. It’s a sure pass.

Therapy answers based on topics

Therapy question bilets

Sorry guys it’s been a while

Gosh, it must have been around a month since I posted something useful. I’m sorry. Firstly, I’ve been pretty busy since I revived my dead blog. And also, I’ve been writing for a website called MakeUseOf.com as their Mac correspondent. And with any new job, I’ve been focusing a lot on it.

Back to business. For 4th year students, we have 2 major exams before winter break i.e. Dermatology and OPX; and 3 major exams in June i.e. Facultative Surgery, Facultative Therapy and Neurology. For me, the hardest subject is Therapy. Depending on where you are based, either at the 1st or 55th Hospital, the teachers may be a bit of a pain in the ass, especially in the 55th. The funny thing is that all the teachers for Therapy are women. Lectures are compulsory and you have to write a Case History for the cycle, one for every semester.

For the 2nd semester of Therapy, at the end of the cycle there will be a small clinical test whereby you’ll be allocated a patient, and you’ll have to clerk that patient and complete their Presenting Complaints, Past Medical History and examine their current state. Then you will have to come up with your own diagnoses based on their blood reports and ECGs, and prescribe a treatment regime. Sounds like the real thing, doesn’t it? You will also be asked why you concluded with that diagnosis, so you’ll have to cover your bases pretty well. The mark you get will carry forward to the final exam.

I’m posting some material which I think will help you along, if you don’t have them already. It’s a copy of my Case History, 1 for each semester (the HT is pretty complete!) and a medications list; and some lecture slides.

DivShare File – COPD.zip
DivShare File – Pneumonia.zip
DivShare File – Рецепты к экзамену.pdf
DivShare File – HT jxn pt hx.doc
DivShare File – COPD jxn pt hx.doc

Happy Studying!