NBME Common Questions

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The document lists numerous medical topics, diseases, drugs, and anatomical structures that commonly appear on exams. It serves as a study guide for topics to review.

Conditions mentioned include the neuromuscular junction, Tanner stage of development, heme synthesis, risk ratios, schizophrenia, brachial arch development, smoking-related diseases, acid-base imbalances, multiple sclerosis, and more.

Anatomical examples given include the optic nerve, cranial nerves, renal structures, lymph node drainage, and embryological development of the heart and reproductive systems.

Every NBME exam has questions that reappear in one form or another.

These are the ones that I have


identified. What do you think? Am I right or way off the mark? Did I miss anything?
1. neuromuscular junction
2. Tanner stage
3. heme synthesis
4. false positive/negative, reliability, precision, accuracy, cohort, cross-sectional, stratification
5. risk ratio or odds ratio
6. schizophrenia or depression length of time or bipolar 1/2 or anxiety
7. brachial arch or pouch question/digeorge
8. smoking is number 1 cause for....
9. A-a gradient
10. optic nerve lesion or hemianopsia
11. solid or liquid dysphagia
12. hematoma epidural/subdural/subarachanoid
13. lipid lowering drug
14. diuretic side effect
15. acidosis/alkalosis
16. succinylcholine or dantrolene
17. kartagener or cystic fibrosis
18. autosomal dominant or X-linked or mitochondrial
19. shock
20. recurrent bacterial/fungus/viral patient
21. hyperresonant or tactile fremitus
22. PLACES or SHiNE bacteria
23. thermoregulation peripheral vasoconstriction in prolonged cold
24. HOCM S4 AS or Dilated S3 AR MR
25. small cell lung carcinoma or carcinoid or serotonin syndrome
26. bullous pemphigus or pemphigus vulgaris
27. basal cell or melanoma or squamous/acanthosis
28. MEN 1/2
29. hyperthyroid or hypothyroid
30. myoma or rhabdomyoma
31. pleiotropy or polygenic or hetroplasmy
32. atropine or stimigmine or muscurinic agonist or anti-muscurinic antagonist
33. multiple sclerosis
34. Type 1/2/3/4 hypersensitivity, transplant rejection
35. cranial nerve or corneal or pupillary reflex
36. PCOS or menopause
37. hyrdrostatic or colloid pressure
38. PTH vs Ca levels
39. Vitamin-E,B12,B3, Fataxia, Syphilis related neuropathy or parietal cell antibody
40. nephritic or nephrotic or white casts or interstitial or kidney stones
41. SLE antibody or CREST antibody or scleroderma or Sjogren
42. RA or osteoarthritis or PAIR or dermatomyositis/polymyositis
43. toxin or antidote
44. lymph node drainage
45. hernia or hemorrhoid
46. developmental stage - roll, stand, walk, run, stairs
47. gluconeogenesis or HMP shunt
48. lysosome or mitochondria or proteasome or intron/exon
49. malaria or mycoplasma
50. sarcoidosis, Vitamin D, 25-something, 1,25-something, 24,25-something
51. CML or polycythemia vera or myelo
52. Meckel diverticulum or appendicitis or ovarian tumor or Hurschsprung
53. esophageal varices or Mallory Weiss or Boerhave
54. polyarteritis nodosa or temporal arteritis or Kawasaki or Reye
55. vesicular steatosis or nodular cirrhosis or Hep A, B, C, D, E, Hep B markers
56. Crohn or Ulcerative Colitis or Th1 or Th2
57. Blood smear - parvovirus B19 or Howell Jolly or Heinz or AML
58. Warfarin or heparin or von Willebrand or HUS or TTP
59. Blood group ABO classification or Thalassemia or Sickle cell
60. Multiple myeloma
61. muscle conduction Ca2+ or troponin or tropomyosin
62. albino or vitiligo or Leukocyte adhesion or Chronic granulomatous or tetrazolium blue test
63. random brain anatomy picture or dorsal column/spinothalamic tract/corticospinal
64. Sturge Weber or neurofibramatosis or Wilms or tuberous sclerosis
65. horners (constricted pupil) or uncal herniation (blown pupil)
66. random embryology from the heart or reproductive or a pudenal nerve
67. CO2 transport
68. asthma drug or cyclosporine or tacrolimus or other immunosuppressive
69. endocrine drug metformin, sulfonylurea
70. grade or TNM stage or brain to lung metastasis or colon to liver metastasis or prostate to
bone metastasis, pancreatic adenocarcinoma osteoBlastic (unlike other cancers)
71. Km or Bioavailability or competitive/noncompetitive drug or maintenance dose or loading
dose or volume of distribution or Phase 1 to 4 or p450, Anesthetic principles: blood
solubility = induction & recovery; lipid solubility = potency = 1/MAC (always one of these
lol)
72. Addisons or Diabetes Insipidus or adrenal cortical/medullary
73. post-ventricular MI complications
74. 30s, 50s, aminoacyl transferase, resistance, beta lactamase, penicillin binding protein
75. Celiac or whipple
76. sexual transmitted infection (gonnorhea, chlamydia, syphilis, HSV, Haemophilus, vaginosis,
Trichomonas)
77. anti-viral medication
78. cancer drug
79. GI drug
80. Type 2 pneumocytes
81. signaling pathway of hormones, p53, HOX gene, motif, tumor suppressor genes, oncogenes
82. Endometriosis, Leiomyoma, Adenomyosis, Asherman
83. amino acid derivatives, catecholimine synthesis
84. neuroleptic malignant vs serotonin vs malignant hyperthermia
85. Collagen/Elastin/insulin synthesis. know in extreme detail
86. Tanner stage

I want to add few more things, don't forget about CYP450 inducers & inhibitors, Lyme disease,
Epithelial cell junctions (gap/zona occludens/e-cadherins etc.), Poly/oligohydramnios (causes &
Potters syndrome), Acute/chronic Pancreatitis casues & sequelae, HIV disorders, Nucleotide
excision/ base excision repairs, types of deletions (missense, nonsense etc.) & Diarrhea. EDIT:
Afferent/Efferent arteriole of kidney and what affects them.

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