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Viva February 2020
Viva February 2020
DR LORETTA
COMMUNITY HEALTH
1. Public health
2. Census
3. Cholera
4. Water purification
6. Malaria: prophylaxis, current malaria program at northern Ghana, what is child welfare clinic ,
how will u educate mothers on malaria prevention
8. Breastfeeding
9. What micro nutrients are of public health importance and measures taken to prevent it.
a. Control of onchocerciasis
b. Management
16. What public health matter of importance have you read in the papers
17. How do you introduce and what food do you introduce at the various stages of child growth
18. How will you tell if one is over weight: BMI. How will u advice to loss eight practically .What are
the units of BMI
a. How do you diagnose leprosy from where do you take your samples?
25. What organism causes buruli ulcer? And what accounts for its low prevalence these days?
27. What are the differences between health promotion and health education?
33. Medical journals read recently and whether is a case study and if yes how different is it from
cohort studies.
34. A ship comes to dock .What must the captain communicate with the port health officer
44. Cervical cancer screening is well publicised, why do we spend so much time on it.
45. Causes of TB
d. What is BCG
46. How will you elicit weight loss of more than 10% in a man from Zabulugu
48. what are the principles of ethics and where does the form fall under?
51. Define Liquid and solid wastes and the best ways to treat them.
52. You were given a land near the lagoon, what will you look out for or ask for the safety of your
house you want to build?
54. What can the comm health do and why should they be concerned
58. A ship is in a port and you're the port HO. How are you going to communicate with each other?
a. What Vaccines help prevent pneumonia( she asked of the viral ones too)
65. What environment problems causes diseases in Ghana (waste and water disposal related
illnesses)
76. A 2 year old who can’t talk and walk what in the history will you ask
77. Hazards
78. COM
79. Research, consent form and how many copies will I need
84. Child under 5, What will you tell a woman who is not educated to make dehydration at home?
86. When you enter into a community, what will influenced your decision to choose cohort or case
control.
89. Obesity in children. Causes, things they eat in school that make them obese. How to prevent it
as a parent and as a teacher.
a. how will someone know if the meet has been well inspected
92. Malnutrition: how to assess, MUAC the reference values and what they mean?, Shakir tape
features,
94. You visit a market which areas will you assess as an environmental health officer.
99. ÉPI
c. a woman has passed 3 loose stools, how would you advice her? When does she come to the
hospital?
112. You are given 60 women to study those who have anemia. how will u report the findings to me
scientifically (prevalence and incidence)
113. I am doing a cohort study and u are doing a cross sectional what will we do differently.
114. Everything about sustainable developmental goal
117. A 28 yo woman who has a 2montha old baby doesn’t want to have babies now, what
contraceptive methods will you offer her?
118. A 38 yo woman doesn’t want to have any more babies, what contraceptive methods will you
suggest?
119. You conduct a clinical trials and I carry out a cohort study, will you do that I cannot do?
123. global warming and the major human activity that leads to it,
2. Blood transfusion
4. What’s a sinus
5. What’s an abscess
8. A patient had perforated ulcer and was operated on and one week later had a right upper
quadrant pain
12. 60 yr old with urine retention for the past 24 hours. Diagnosis?
15. Left hypochondriac swelling and pain, no fever for two day. Differentials
19. How to differentiate acute septic arthritis and chronic septic arthritis. Causes
20. A lady presented to the emergency with severe leg pain, it’s relived when seated on the bed
with the leg hanged, Diagnosis.
22. Male patient with a history of fever, right hypochondriac pain and a palpable mass in that
quadrant. Differentials.
23. How will you differentiate an amoebic abscess from a gall bladder empyema?
24. How will you diagnose a patient who come to the emergency room with Bleeding per rectum?
28. Wound
30. A post-op patient, wasn’t pyretic before the surgery, day 6 becomes pyretic. Differentials.
Why do we use the sigmoid colon and transverse colon for colostomy
34. Femur bone. Name the parts
36. A 29 year old comes to the A&E with a rectal bleeding intermittently for a year.
What questions will u ask to get differentials and discuss the management of one.
Questions to ask
48. A 50 year old obese woman for gastric surgery what are you worried about
50. Spiral fracture of the femur what will be my concern and what will I do?
53. 12yr old boy, abdominal pain, fever, vomiting all of 2days duration. ddx
types of shock
58. Patient 60 years with diarrhoea with severe bleeding per rectum ddx
64. Investigations
69. Pelvic abscess, how will you confirm the dx and management.
74. All about differentiating between a breast mass that is fibroadenoma or breast Ca(with follow-
up questions)
76. Femur bone, what makes it right or left, pathologies of femur bone ,types of osteomyelitis
77. All about Head injury, minute injury to brain, most severe injury to head,
Presentation of ICP
79. I performed surgery for typhoid perforation, i placed NG tube, urinary catheter and abdominal
tube, as a house officer, how will u hydrate post op day 1.
80. What's the name of the chart the nurses record the out put and input and what do they write on
it.
85. IWhat type of fracture would lead to necrosis of the head and how is it treated. How to treat a
transverse fracture of the shaft.
types of hypoxia
causes of hypoxia,
87. a patient with gastrectomy who the nurse came complaining that he is having breathlessness
what are you thinking and how do I manage such a patient.
PEDIATRICS
1. 9 months old with Dehydration.
Complications
What’s shock
3. Jaundice
4. A 9 month old presents with diarrhoea. How will you go about it. complete physical exams
What advantages does the anaesthetic have in ICU and what can he do for the child.
Differential of convulsions
8. CNS manifestations
10. 1 yr old fast breathing: Questions you will ask the mum.
What are the common heart malformations and what will you find on Physical exam and investigations?
Why do they have obesity and how will you manage that?
How will you manage the disease and what investigations must be carried out?
Tell us about jaundice in a neonate, what would you like to know from history.
16. Pneumonia; signs & symptoms, objective/physical exam : inspection, palpation, percussion,
auscultation
19. TOF
20. Ddx of a coughing child and fever. He went with bronchiolitis. History, signs and symptoms
Management. Fluid formula for bronchiolitis (he said you'll give 2/3 of the calculated fluid you want to
give).
How would you know if he came with hypokalemia.( she says abdominal distention. )
26. Called to receive a baby at deliver, what will you take along with you.
30. Laryngomalacia
35. Do u know Rubella. What is the organisms causing it and what is the effects on the fetus.
36. Immunization schedule.
44. Croup
45. Epiglottis
48. Tetralogy of Fallot. physical exam, how would they present in the emergency
49. Differentiate between nephrotic and nephritic syndromes with clinical features/presentation.
How was the patient managed?( they kept asking the reasons for the management choices)
51. Bronchial Asthma and Acute gastroenteritis with dehydration and their management
55. A 6 yo is rushed to the ER with severe vomiting and diarrhoea he’s in shock, what is shock?
If he is not improving
Types of shock
What medication would you use to abort the seizures and what route?
2. Heart sounds
findings in percussion
Demonstration of percussion.
Chest X-ray with massive right pleural effusion and describe it.
The trachea and mediastinum are displaced to the left, how will you clinically examine the trachea to
confirm a deviation.
4. Right heart failure presentations, left heart failure presentation, signs you will elicit.
5. What are the causes of Dyspnoea in a 55 yr old. Heart failure. talk about the presentation and
treatment.
Signs of meningism
Ddx of meningism
complications and the man asked me to examine the trachea on the toy and
18. Causes of AF
Uses of digoxine
Causes of ascites
Complications of ascites
Causes of cardiomegaly
Name all the deep tendon reflexes and in the upper and lower limbs and give their nerve roots?
What is the normal and abnormal Babinsky response and how can you interpret your findings?
23. 55 year female with weakness over the past year has diarrhoea n weight loss. On physical exams
she has pallor .What is your likely diagnosis?
25. 2.16 year old boy went to play football and was kicked in the abdomen. What will you do?
Complications of DKA
Complication of A-fib
If patient can’t stop eating ayoyo, is there any drug you will give?
30. Palpate the cardiac apex (on a dummy)
If the apex beat is shifted to the left what can be the cause
Signs of consolidation.
Complications of pneumonia.
40. Name the types of sphygmomanometer; name the parts of the manual sphygmomanometer.
42. How to ellicit ascites and when to use fluid thrill and when to use shifting dullness
46. X-Ray: pneumothorax (what would you find on Inspection, Palpation, Percussion, Auscultation)
53. How do we palpate the spleen and what will you find on palpation
CURB 65 scoring
60. Woman gave me a boy with huge eyes and ask me what is was( thyrotoxicosis)
If the patient presented with slight hypernatremia , increased urea but normal creatinine what will you
be thinking about
63. MI in a diabetic, why will a diabetic not have pain in an MI,X-Ray, EKG
65. A 35yr old presents with increased frequency of and painful micturation, manage.
66. A patient presents with jaundice and bone pain with a 10year history of recurrences. How will
you go about it?
67. 26 year, hx of allergies and eczema, dyspnoea, productive cough and polyphonic wheeze.
68. Auscultate the mitral valve, how will u report the heart sounds.
81. Where will the apex beat be located , demonstrate on the dummy
What is clubbing?