Hey everyone,
I took it today, just got back......Wanted to post since this thread has helped me a ton!
Before I forget I had 1 question where I had to calculate the serum osmo and pick the correct number. It was pretty specific.
Overall some very very easy questions, less than 10-20 seconds to answer....then some WTF questions from left field. Some things I have never heard of before. I also got the birth control matching, but knew 3 out of the 4.
Biochem- Nothing really here, got a few ?s on some of the glycogen storage diseases and a few about the genetic diseases like marfan's and osteogenisis imperfecta. Maybe 5ish questions total....
Behav Science- A few ethical situations...1 or 2 where pretty tough. Some crap about teaching a resident to talk to patients and the right way to do it according to some method I've never heard of before. 2 questions on the p value and getting a number and interpreting it.
Micro- a HUGE chunk of my exam....not much on treatment maybe 4-6 questions. The majority where they give you a set of signs and symptoms and say pick the bug/virus/parasite/worm. The majority where bacteria, a few on viruses, a few on protozoa and fungi and one or two on worms.
Immuno- a few on immunodeficiencies, one or 2 on hypersensitivity and that's it. A few on Rh incompatibility.
Pharm- not too bad...most what drug to treat this or side effects. I had one really weird one....what drug can be inhaled for osteoporosis????WTF?
Anatomy- a few weird ones NOT in first aid. Not more than 10 or so questions.
Carido- A few tricky ones, more than I thought....Probably 20-30 questions. Some murmurs where easy, but some questions where not so easy....
Resp- Not too many questions, a few on cancers, fungal infections in the lungs and sarcodosis.
Heme/Onc- I really cannot remember too much, maybe one about Beta thal.....
Renal- A few on nephritic and nephrotic, but easy like kid strep throat a week ago has RBC casts what is diagnosis. A few on renal failure. One on acetaminophen toxicity that was tough. One on nephrotic.
Path- A few on chemicals and what they would cause like CCl4 and so on. There were a few pictures of tissue samples and they wanted the diagnosis. They gave you the region the biopsy was from but that was it. Kind of tough here. At least 15ish questions like this. Which I was shocked about!
GI- few on Chrons/UC/anal disorders. Hepatitis, appendicitis, bilirubin questions (know how photo therapy works), micro related diarrhea.
Endocrine- a few on thyroid, lots on repro endocrine, a few on adrenal gland path.
Repro- Some where soooo simple like endometerosis, PCOS, or leiomyoma or partial vs. complete hydatidiform moles. Or all the placenta conditions know COLD. Then some weird hormone questions that were NOT in first aid. Of course some (3ish) you would have to be an OBGYN resident to answer.
Neuro- Epi/subdural/arachnoid, some on skull fracture, uncal herniation, strokes and some difficult ones I thought.
MSK- Lots here, dealt with neuro, omm, autoimmune. A few on arthritis, gout, RA, I actually had a ton of derm....
OMM- MAN soooo many questions probably 30-40% of my test. Know levels COLD for viscerosomatics and chapmans. A few chapmans not in the green book, but not too bad. I had 6-8 questions on post. radial head....haha. Most of the repeated the same scenario, fell on out stretched hand.....Let's see what else, stupid simple ones like TP posterior on some side better in flex/exention what's the diagnosis. Some sacrum that was tough. I had a matching on crainial string patterns (torsion, sidebending rotation so on...). Lots of good old psoas, lots of upper extremity. Actually 5-8 questions on lower extremity. Know common perioneal nerve. Know scoliosis, cobb angle used on x-ray, know how to tell if it's dextro or levo know what it means if the curve cannot be corrected by sidebending. A good number of counterstrain treatment questions....75% where no-brainers and easy....the rest where kind of tough. I knew OMM well from my school, so felt good about it. I bet all the answers are in the green book.
Background on what I did......
Studying since December. I was through FA 3 times before I started DIT probably 20 days ago. I was through UW once before DIT and COMBANK once. I made it through another pass of Combank as well. I didn't really use a method. I just read first aid, did UWorld ?s on that section I read to learn from. I learned a ton doing this. We had a comprehensive pharm final which helped studying.
I did COMSAE A early May got 450.
COMSAE B 543 late May
COMSAE C 538
COMBANK 1st pass 74.5%
COMBANK 2nd pass 89.8%
UWorld like 60.8%
Now have to wait 4-6 weeks which sucks!
Good luck to everyone!
Let me know if you have specific questions.
Nick
