TEXAS MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE TEST PAPER 2025
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔third degree felony: 2-10 years in prison; < $10,000 fine
***guess this if something sounds awful - ✔✔practice medicine without a license
selling a child
violating the medical practice act twice; once = class A misdemeanor
falsifying birth/death certification
✔✔state fail felony ("4" degree felony): 6 months - 2 years in state fail; < $10,000 fine -
✔✔promoting a suicide if the patient hurts/kills themselves
-class C misdemeanor if they don't follow through
maliciously reporting child abuse; additional $1000 fine
✔✔class A misdemeanor: < 1 year in country jail; < $4000 fine
**guess this if the crime doesnt sound serious - ✔✔violating the medical practice act
+$5k fine, violating twice = third degree felony
failure to report elderly abuse (outside or inside of a nursing home) or abuse of patients
in mental health facilities
maliciously reporting elderly abuse in nursing homes
soliciting patients; 3rd degree felony for subsequent offense
receiving kickbacks for referrals
wrongful handling or abuse of a corpse
✔✔class B misdemeanor < 6 months in county jail < $2,000 fine - ✔✔failure to report
child abuse
maliciously reporting elderly abuse outside of nursing home
failure to report STDs & important/communicable disease < 7 days
✔✔class C misdemeanor < $500 fine - ✔✔promoting a suicide that was not successful;
state jail felony if they follow through
not filing birth or death certificate properly (5 days birth, 10 days death)
, failure to notify police immediately: unnatural/unexplained death, suicide, drug
overdoses, & gunshot injuries
✔✔child abuse - ✔✔must be reported < 48 hours to DFPS & may not defer this
responsibility to others
i. class B misdemeanor for failure to report
ii. state jail felony & $1000 fine for making a malicious report
iii. buying/selling a kid = 3rd degree felony
iv. MD may examine a child (age <16) upone suspicion of child abuse/neglect even if
the child refuses
b. Mom's substance use during pregancy harms the baby when born = child abuse
✔✔elderly abuse in nursing homes - ✔✔oral report must be done immediately followed
by writing < 5 days to DSHS, DFPS, police or agency that licenses the nursing home
(DADS)
i. class A misdemeanor for failure to report
ii. class a misdemeanor for making a malicious report (class B if not a nursing home
person)
iii. sexual abuse = 2nd degree felony
b. report death of a nursing home resident occurring < 24 hours after transfer to a
hospital
✔✔reporting family violence or domestic/spousal abuse is not mandatory - ✔✔but MD
must document findings, provide care, & provide info about resources/nearby
shelters/local authorities
✔✔notify local health depeartment of DSHS of STDs & important/communicable
diseases: - ✔✔emergencies (e.g. anthrax, smallpox, polio, , diphtheria, rabies, botulism,
plague, meningitis) must be reported immediately
TB, pertussis, hepatitis A/B , acute HIV < 1 week (gonorrhea, syphilis, chlamydia,
chancroid, salmonella, non-acute HIV)
failing to report = class B misdemeanor
spouse & persons (MD/RN/etc) who are in close contact with patient need to know
about HIV
instruct the patient ways to prevent the spread of such disease
instruct the patient ways to prevent the spread of such disease
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔third degree felony: 2-10 years in prison; < $10,000 fine
***guess this if something sounds awful - ✔✔practice medicine without a license
selling a child
violating the medical practice act twice; once = class A misdemeanor
falsifying birth/death certification
✔✔state fail felony ("4" degree felony): 6 months - 2 years in state fail; < $10,000 fine -
✔✔promoting a suicide if the patient hurts/kills themselves
-class C misdemeanor if they don't follow through
maliciously reporting child abuse; additional $1000 fine
✔✔class A misdemeanor: < 1 year in country jail; < $4000 fine
**guess this if the crime doesnt sound serious - ✔✔violating the medical practice act
+$5k fine, violating twice = third degree felony
failure to report elderly abuse (outside or inside of a nursing home) or abuse of patients
in mental health facilities
maliciously reporting elderly abuse in nursing homes
soliciting patients; 3rd degree felony for subsequent offense
receiving kickbacks for referrals
wrongful handling or abuse of a corpse
✔✔class B misdemeanor < 6 months in county jail < $2,000 fine - ✔✔failure to report
child abuse
maliciously reporting elderly abuse outside of nursing home
failure to report STDs & important/communicable disease < 7 days
✔✔class C misdemeanor < $500 fine - ✔✔promoting a suicide that was not successful;
state jail felony if they follow through
not filing birth or death certificate properly (5 days birth, 10 days death)
, failure to notify police immediately: unnatural/unexplained death, suicide, drug
overdoses, & gunshot injuries
✔✔child abuse - ✔✔must be reported < 48 hours to DFPS & may not defer this
responsibility to others
i. class B misdemeanor for failure to report
ii. state jail felony & $1000 fine for making a malicious report
iii. buying/selling a kid = 3rd degree felony
iv. MD may examine a child (age <16) upone suspicion of child abuse/neglect even if
the child refuses
b. Mom's substance use during pregancy harms the baby when born = child abuse
✔✔elderly abuse in nursing homes - ✔✔oral report must be done immediately followed
by writing < 5 days to DSHS, DFPS, police or agency that licenses the nursing home
(DADS)
i. class A misdemeanor for failure to report
ii. class a misdemeanor for making a malicious report (class B if not a nursing home
person)
iii. sexual abuse = 2nd degree felony
b. report death of a nursing home resident occurring < 24 hours after transfer to a
hospital
✔✔reporting family violence or domestic/spousal abuse is not mandatory - ✔✔but MD
must document findings, provide care, & provide info about resources/nearby
shelters/local authorities
✔✔notify local health depeartment of DSHS of STDs & important/communicable
diseases: - ✔✔emergencies (e.g. anthrax, smallpox, polio, , diphtheria, rabies, botulism,
plague, meningitis) must be reported immediately
TB, pertussis, hepatitis A/B , acute HIV < 1 week (gonorrhea, syphilis, chlamydia,
chancroid, salmonella, non-acute HIV)
failing to report = class B misdemeanor
spouse & persons (MD/RN/etc) who are in close contact with patient need to know
about HIV
instruct the patient ways to prevent the spread of such disease
instruct the patient ways to prevent the spread of such disease
