CrossWards USMLE Step 2 Board Review

210 Pages·2014·1.97 MB·English

by  Anthony J Viera, Matthew A Sutton

CrossWards
USMLE Step 2 Board Review
Anthony J. Viera, MD, MPH
Associate Professor
Department of Family Medicine
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Matthew A. Sutton, MD
Family Medicine Physician
Winslow Indian Health Care Center
Winslow, Arizona
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Puzzled by USMLE preparation or your latest rotation? Tired of the
same old boring review? Welcome to CrossWardsTM! We hope you
will find these puzzles a more engaging way to review your medical
knowledge as you prepare for examinations, ward rotations, or just
want to have a fun way to study.
Contributors to this edition of CrossWardsTM Step 2:
Meredith Gilliam was a medical student at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine at the time of contri-
bution, now a resident in internal medicine at the University of
Michigan.
Look for CrossWardsTM Step 1 and other future editions of CrossWardsTM.
Do YOU want to contribute to an upcoming edition of CrossWardsTM?
Send your puzzle clues, solutions, and “extra info” in an Excel or Word
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Include your name, address, and current position/medical school. We
will let you know if your puzzle is selected for inclusion in an upcom-
ing edition.
PUZZLES
1. Loosen Up with Some Medical Eponyms 2
2. Cross My Heart 4
3. Put Some Skin in the Game 6
4. Lytes Out! 8
5. Immune to Myself? 10
6. I’m “Gland” You’re Doing This Puzzle 12
7. Abdominal Pains 14
8. Clinical Scramble 16
9. This Confounded Puzzle! 18
10. GI Feel Terrible 20
11. Nerve-racking Puzzle 22
12. One More . . . For Old Timer’s Sake 24
13. This Puzzle May Cause Petechiae 26
14. A Borderline Puzzle 28
15. This Puzzle is Infectious 30
16. The Heart of Pharmacology 32
17. An Ounce of Prevention 34
18. Puz-culoskeletal 36
19. Catching My Breath 38
20. Are You Smarter than a First-year? 40
21. Not Just Little Adults 42
22. Renal & Lytes 44
23. Surgery Rounds 46
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24. Just for Fun—Movie Docs 48
25. I Got Rhythm . . . 50
26. Clinical Scramble 52
27. Birth of a Puzzle 54
28. Labor Pains 56
29. A pHuzzle 58
30. Onco-Logical 60
31. Clear to Auscultation? 62
32. Some Lovers Try . . . This Puzzle 64
33. Doc, I Think It’s My Hormones 66
34. This Puzzle is Giving Me Gas 68
35. BuzzWards 70
36. A Trich Puzzle 72
37. Widow Maker 74
38. Don’t Mess Around with the Pancreas 76
39. Most Common . . . 78
40. Clinical Scramble 80
41. BrainTeaser 82
42. This Puzzle is Kidstuff 84
43. This Puzzle Might Cause Extrapyramidal Symptoms 86
44. Claiming the Inheritance 88
45. CN 2-12 Intact? 90
46. This Puzzle DeLivers 92
47. I Need a Puzzle—Stat! 94
48. Shock and Awe 96
49. Doc Says “I’ve got good news and bad news” 98
50. Step 2 Potpourri 100
CrossWard Solutions (with a little extra info!) begin on page 102.
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Medical Eponyms
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Across: Down:
3 - Nodules or macules on palms or soles 1 - People being watched (studied)
seen in endocarditis: behave differently:
lesions effect
5 - When standing on one leg unable 2 - Dermatology lines
to lift opposite side of pelvis: 4 - body dementia
sign 6 - Free Ig light chains seen in plasma
7 - To detect eosinophils in urine, ask for cell dyscrasias: -
a stain proteins
9 - One of the tests for meniscal tear 8 - Flexing the neck causes flexion
13 - Failure of third and fourth pha- of the hips/knees in meningitis:
ryngeal pouches to differentiate: sign
syndrome 10 - Primary adrenal insufficiency:
15 - score: Five parameters disease
assessed at birth 11 - For distinguishing transudative
17 - When rubbing sole of foot in upper from exudative pleural effusion:
motor neuron lesion, great toe criteria
goes up and other toes fan out: 12 - Carpal tunnel test in which wrists are
sign flexed for a minute
18 - BPV treatment maneuver 14 - Vascular tumor associated with HHV-
19 - Deep palpation of LLQ provokes pain 8: sarcoma
in RLQ in appendicitis: 16 - Most common cause of mild
sign unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia:
21 - Necrotizing infection of genital fascia: syndrome
gangrene 20 - Distended neck veins, distant heart
22 - In hypocalcemia, tapping over sounds, low BP: triad
facial nerve causes facial twitch:
sign
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Solutions on page 103.
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