Amboss Step 1 Self Assessment UPDATED
ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Endometriosis presentations with what symptoms? - CORRECT ANSWER - Dysmenorrhea,
dyspareunia, dyschezia, ovarian cysts, infertility.
Pulmonary stenosis murmur - CORRECT ANSWER - Systolic crescendo decrescendo
murmur best heard at left upper sternal border
Aortic stenosis murmur - CORRECT ANSWER - Harsh mid systolic crescendo-decrescendo
murmur that may radiate bilaterally to carotids and is best heard in 2nd intercostal space at right
upper sternal border
What types of murmurs are ventral septal defects, mitral regurgitation, tricuspid regurgitation? -
CORRECT ANSWER - Holosystolic murmurs
Winters formula - CORRECT ANSWER - Expected pCO2 = 1.5*HCO3 +8 +/- 2
Hallmark of epenymoma - CORRECT ANSWER - Perivascular pseudorosettes
Langerhan cells - CORRECT ANSWER - Dendritic cells of the skin and lymphoid tissue that
presents antigen to other cells of the immune system.
Langerhan cells express what? - CORRECT ANSWER - CD1a
The uteric bud differentiates in to what? - CORRECT ANSWER - Collecting duct, calcyes,
renal pelvis, ureters.
, What forms the definitive kidneyu (metanephros)? - CORRECT ANSWER - Uteric bud and
metanephric blastema.
Metanephric blastema differentiates in to what? - CORRECT ANSWER - Glomeruli,
proximal tubules, loop of henle, DCT.
What regulates the pacemaking activity of the SA node? - CORRECT ANSWER - T type
calcium channels, responsible for the transient influx of calcium during phase 4 of the action
potential.
Achondroplasia is caused by mutation of what? - CORRECT ANSWER - FGFR3
What is not affected in achondroplasia? - CORRECT ANSWER - Intramembranous
ossification, mechanism that underlies the growth of flat bones.
What type of ossification is responsible for long bones and base of skull? - CORRECT
ANSWER - Endochondral ossification
Inactivation of what results in Kallman syndrome? - CORRECT ANSWER - FGFR1
Metronidazole MOA - CORRECT ANSWER - Formation of free radical metabolites that
damage bacterial DNA
Side effect of metronidazole when consumed with alcohol - CORRECT ANSWER -
Disulfiram like reaction
MOA of flouroquinolones - CORRECT ANSWER - Inhibition of DNA gyrase
Adverse effects of flouroquinolones - CORRECT ANSWER - Tendinitis and QT prolongation
ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Endometriosis presentations with what symptoms? - CORRECT ANSWER - Dysmenorrhea,
dyspareunia, dyschezia, ovarian cysts, infertility.
Pulmonary stenosis murmur - CORRECT ANSWER - Systolic crescendo decrescendo
murmur best heard at left upper sternal border
Aortic stenosis murmur - CORRECT ANSWER - Harsh mid systolic crescendo-decrescendo
murmur that may radiate bilaterally to carotids and is best heard in 2nd intercostal space at right
upper sternal border
What types of murmurs are ventral septal defects, mitral regurgitation, tricuspid regurgitation? -
CORRECT ANSWER - Holosystolic murmurs
Winters formula - CORRECT ANSWER - Expected pCO2 = 1.5*HCO3 +8 +/- 2
Hallmark of epenymoma - CORRECT ANSWER - Perivascular pseudorosettes
Langerhan cells - CORRECT ANSWER - Dendritic cells of the skin and lymphoid tissue that
presents antigen to other cells of the immune system.
Langerhan cells express what? - CORRECT ANSWER - CD1a
The uteric bud differentiates in to what? - CORRECT ANSWER - Collecting duct, calcyes,
renal pelvis, ureters.
, What forms the definitive kidneyu (metanephros)? - CORRECT ANSWER - Uteric bud and
metanephric blastema.
Metanephric blastema differentiates in to what? - CORRECT ANSWER - Glomeruli,
proximal tubules, loop of henle, DCT.
What regulates the pacemaking activity of the SA node? - CORRECT ANSWER - T type
calcium channels, responsible for the transient influx of calcium during phase 4 of the action
potential.
Achondroplasia is caused by mutation of what? - CORRECT ANSWER - FGFR3
What is not affected in achondroplasia? - CORRECT ANSWER - Intramembranous
ossification, mechanism that underlies the growth of flat bones.
What type of ossification is responsible for long bones and base of skull? - CORRECT
ANSWER - Endochondral ossification
Inactivation of what results in Kallman syndrome? - CORRECT ANSWER - FGFR1
Metronidazole MOA - CORRECT ANSWER - Formation of free radical metabolites that
damage bacterial DNA
Side effect of metronidazole when consumed with alcohol - CORRECT ANSWER -
Disulfiram like reaction
MOA of flouroquinolones - CORRECT ANSWER - Inhibition of DNA gyrase
Adverse effects of flouroquinolones - CORRECT ANSWER - Tendinitis and QT prolongation
