NIH EXAM PRACTICE QUESTIONS WITH
CORRECT ANSWERS!!
mhotep
Egyptian, first physician figure to rise out of antiquity; known scribe, priest, architect,
astronomer and magician. performed surgery, practiced some dentistry, extracted medicine from
plants and knew the position and function of vital organs.
Hippocrates
Father of modern medicine; Hipprocratic oath --> high moral standards.
Which of the following is most likely a case series study?
Report of 5 cases of pneumocytosis pneumonia in previously healthy homosexual men
Scientific misconduct can cause which of the following?
All of the above
What is/are the reason(s) that NIH requires the inclusion of women and minorities in all
clinical research?
All of the above
What can change a study's power and how power is impacted?
Variation in outcome (σ2): power decreases as an outcome's variance increases
A for-cause audit conducted by the Food and Drug Administration is best described as:
An audit performed to investigate possible fraud or misconduct
The use of common data elements (CDEs) should meet all of the following objectives
EXCEPT:
To promote unneeded or redundant data collection
, True or False: Tests of general cognitive function, such as IQ tests and mini-mental status
exams (MMSE), provide effective tools for determining whether individuals can give
informed consent for a clinical trial.
False
An h-index is a way to:
Measure an author's productivity and impact
Clinical trial registration is important so that:
A and B only
a) existing trials are publicly available; b) Trials are made publicly available even if they are not
finished
It is important to be able to replicate the randomization results, i.e., reproduce the string of
treatment assignments.
False
Scientific misconduct includes all of the following EXCEPT:
human error
Which of the following four statements is TRUE about patents?
To get worldwide patent protection, you will have to file a patent application in each and every
country.
Which of the following is NOT an example of a source document?
A worksheet that has a patient's height and weight abstracted or taken from data in the medical
record.
True or False: Planned interim data analyses, that require analysis of unblinded data, need
to be specified in the study protocol.
True
A potential barrier to recruitment in clinical trials is/are:
CORRECT ANSWERS!!
mhotep
Egyptian, first physician figure to rise out of antiquity; known scribe, priest, architect,
astronomer and magician. performed surgery, practiced some dentistry, extracted medicine from
plants and knew the position and function of vital organs.
Hippocrates
Father of modern medicine; Hipprocratic oath --> high moral standards.
Which of the following is most likely a case series study?
Report of 5 cases of pneumocytosis pneumonia in previously healthy homosexual men
Scientific misconduct can cause which of the following?
All of the above
What is/are the reason(s) that NIH requires the inclusion of women and minorities in all
clinical research?
All of the above
What can change a study's power and how power is impacted?
Variation in outcome (σ2): power decreases as an outcome's variance increases
A for-cause audit conducted by the Food and Drug Administration is best described as:
An audit performed to investigate possible fraud or misconduct
The use of common data elements (CDEs) should meet all of the following objectives
EXCEPT:
To promote unneeded or redundant data collection
, True or False: Tests of general cognitive function, such as IQ tests and mini-mental status
exams (MMSE), provide effective tools for determining whether individuals can give
informed consent for a clinical trial.
False
An h-index is a way to:
Measure an author's productivity and impact
Clinical trial registration is important so that:
A and B only
a) existing trials are publicly available; b) Trials are made publicly available even if they are not
finished
It is important to be able to replicate the randomization results, i.e., reproduce the string of
treatment assignments.
False
Scientific misconduct includes all of the following EXCEPT:
human error
Which of the following four statements is TRUE about patents?
To get worldwide patent protection, you will have to file a patent application in each and every
country.
Which of the following is NOT an example of a source document?
A worksheet that has a patient's height and weight abstracted or taken from data in the medical
record.
True or False: Planned interim data analyses, that require analysis of unblinded data, need
to be specified in the study protocol.
True
A potential barrier to recruitment in clinical trials is/are:
