PLAB (Professional and Linguistic Assessments Board) Sample Questions Set-248
Categories: U.K. PLAB (Professional and Linguistic Assessments Board)
Question: A 75 year old man presents with back pain. Investigation: plasma cells are found. What is the most probable diagnosis?
a. Multiple myeloma
b. AS
c. Disc prolapse
d. Leukemia
e. Myelofibrosis
Answer: (a)
Question: A 45 year old woman presents with complaints of abdominal pain and blood in stool. She brings the stool sample from home but has never been able to produce a sample at the hospital. Her urine and blood tests are normal. Examination: multiple scars on the abdomen consistent with laparoscopies and appendectomy. She insists on getting further investigation although no abnormalities are found. What is the most likely diagnosis?
a. Malingering
b. Somatization
c. Hypochondriasis
d. Conversion disorder
e. Munchausen syndrome
Answer: (e)
Question: A 36 year old woman contacts the police to notify them she was responsible for a recent disastrous flood with loss of lives. What kind of delusions is she suffering from?
a. Persecutory
b. Poverty
c. Guilt
d. Nihilistic
e. Reference
Answer: (c)
Question: A 27 year old man presents with symptoms characterized by alternating mood swings a/w flight of ideas, elation, over activity and disinhibition, or low mood with lack of energy and social withdrawal. What is the most probable diagnosis?
a. Bipolar affective disorder
b. Dysthymia
c. Mania
d. Hypomania
e. Cyclothymia
Answer: (a)
Question: Healthy parents have 2 children, a child with CF and a healthy child. They want to have another child. What are the chances of that child being a carrier?
a. 1:4
b. 1:2
c. 2:3
d. 1:8
e. 1:16
Answer: (b)
Question: A 64 year old man believes a female newscaster is communicating directly with him when she turns a page. What kind of delusions is he suffering from?
a. Persecutory
b. Control
c. Grandeur
d. Nihilistic
e. Reference
Answer: (e)
Question: A 7 year old girl with allergy became acutely unwell while visiting a friend’s house and has been brought immediately to the ED. She is fully conscious but has got stridor, wheeze and erythematous rash. She is receiving oxygen. What is the single immediate management?
a. Check airway patency and prepare intubation
b. Give 0.25ml in 1000U epinephrine IM
c. Give 10 mg chlorpheniramine IM
d. Give 50 ml hydrocortisone IM
e. Obtain secure IV access
Answer: (b)
Question: A terminally ill patient with metastatic carcinoma presents with dysphagia and difficulty in swallowing. What is the best possible tx?
a. Nystatin suspension
b. Amphotericin B IV
c. PO fluconazole
d. Clotrimazole
e. Analgesic
Answer: (c)
Question: A couple attends their GP because of marital problems. The wife states that her husband is having affairs although she has no proof of this. The husband states that she even had him followed by a private detective and this is putting considerable strain on their marriage. What is the most likely diagnosis?
a. Fregoli syndrome
b. Cotard syndrome
c. Mood disorder
d. Ekbom syndrome
e. Othello syndrome
Answer: (e)
Question: A 65 year old lady who is on thiazide suffers from falls in the morning. What is the cause for her symptoms?
a. Orthostatic hypotension
b. TIA
c. Epilepsy
Answer: (a)