Board Preparation
Clinical teaching and practical ideas for your next study session.
Pregnancy Trauma SAQs: Build a Defensible Four-Point Plan
The strongest pregnancy-trauma short answer is not a fixed checklist. Learn to name immediate actions while marking which choices depend on gestational age, injury findings, and Rh status.
Acute Uterine Bleeding: Why Hb 7.2 Can Support Admission
In a nonpregnant acute uterine bleeding stem, use Hb 7.2 g/dL with tachycardia to practise a specific board distinction: why a near-threshold value may support monitored assessment without proving a transfusion threshold was crossed.
Twin Chorionicity: Why Placental Count Can Mislead
One placental mass cannot settle twin chorionicity. Learn to weigh membrane architecture, avoid false certainty, and use a focused retrieval drill for twin MCQs.
CT After Trauma in Pregnancy: What the 50-mGy Threshold Means
For this trauma MCQ, the key is to explain what the fetal radiation threshold does—and does not—mean: don’t equate lower risk of certain fetal effects with zero risk or delay indicated maternal imaging.
Three CHC MEC Flags—and One Migraine Trap on Boards
A migraine diagnosis is not automatically a fourth Category 3 or 4 finding. Learn to classify smoking, blood pressure, and lamotrigine with the qualifiers a U.S. MEC board question requires.
A Negative STI Test Too Soon: Three Clocks to Know
STI MCQs can blur an exposure window, a test of cure, and reinfection screening. Learn to match each clock to the assay and sampled site—and avoid treating one negative result as a verdict.
Lisinopril in Pregnancy: Stop the Drug, Not the Blood-Pressure Plan
When pregnancy is recognized during lisinopril therapy, separate three decisions: stop ongoing ACE-inhibitor exposure, preserve maternal blood-pressure control, and interpret fetal risk according to gestational timing.
PCOS and Endometrial Cancer: When Protection, Not Screening, Is the Board Answer
The board-ready PCOS distinction is not simply increased cancer risk. It is recognizing chronic anovulation, absent progesterone, endometrial proliferation, and when protection—not routine screening—is the next move.
ADAMTS13 First: A Board-Ready Approach to TTP, HELLP, and Pregnancy-Associated TMA
When severe thrombocytopenia and hemolysis appear in pregnancy, use a syndrome-first algorithm, ADAMTS13 intelligently, and targeted retrieval practice to separate TTP from HELLP and complement-mediated TMA.