Question: A 51 year old woman presents with a painful tongue and complains of tiredness. She is pale and has angular stomatitis and a smooth red tongue. There is no koilonychia. Choose the single cell type you will find on the blood film.
a. Numerous blast cells
b. Oval macrocytes
c. Spherocytes
d. Microcytic hypochromic
e. Mexican hat cells
f. Erythrocytes
Answer: (b)
Question: A 24 year old woman presents with tingling and twitching of her fingers followed by a throbbing unilateral headache. What is the most likely diagnosis?
a. Tension headache
b. Migraine
c. Cluster headache
d. TIA
e. SAH
Answer: (b)
Question: A young child diagnosed with chicken pox. Usually goes to daycare. What is the most appropriate advice?
a. Child should be admitted to hospital straight away
b. Isolate the child from parents and siblings at home
c. Advice that he can go back to nursery when the rash is crusted over
Answer: (c)
Question: A 7 year old boy is brought by his mother. There are multiple perioral and forehead vesicles. Some vesicles are crusted and some are not. The face is hot. What is the most likely diagnosis?
a. Varicella zoster
b. Herpes zoster
c. Fungal infection
d. Impetigo
e. Psoriasis
Answer: (b)
Question: A 5 year old boy is rescued from a burning building and is presented to the ED. He has 5% partial thickness burns over the arms and legs and had soot in the mouth and nose. His breathing has become noisy. What is the single most immediate management?
a. Nebulized adrenaline
b. Nebulized salmeterol and oxygen
c. Needle cricothyroidotomy
d. Oropharyngeal airway
e. Intubation of airway
Answer: (e)
Question: A new born baby is brought with pansystolic murmur at the sternal border but the baby is not cyanosed. What is the diagnosis?
a. VSD
b. ASD
c. TOF
d. PDA
Answer: (a)
Question: A woman complaining of diarrhea, abdominal pain and fatigue. All the tests are found to be normal. What is the cause?
a. Somatization
b. Conversion
c. Hypochondriasis
Answer: (b)
Question: A 26 year old man has returned from NY to the UK and noticed weight loss, night sweats, temperature=37.5C and cervical lymphadenopathy. He also has splenomegaly. What is the diagnosis?
a. TB
b. Lymphoma
c. Bronchial carcinoma
d. Bronchitis
Answer: (b)
Question: A mother got infected with Hepatitis B during pregnancy. Her child is born and she is worried about the risk of infection to the baby with Hepatitis B. What would you give to the baby?
a. Hepatitis B Ig only
b. Hepatitis B full vaccine and Ig
c. Hepatitis B vaccine only once
d. Nothing until immune status is checked
e. Hepatitis B vaccine once and Ig
Answer: (b)
Question: A man suffers from Herpes Zoster affecting his face. Which of the following mucous membranes is to be affected?
a. Cheek
b. Cornea
c. Conjunctiva
d. Oropharynx
e. Palate
Answer: (b)
These questions cover various aspects of medical knowledge, clinical reasoning, and professional skills. Remember to refer to the PLAB exam syllabus and guidelines for a comprehensive understanding of the exam content and format.
The PLAB test is a prerequisite for international medical graduates who want to practise medicine in the UK. Passing both parts of the exam is also a requirement. To receive a licence to practise medicine in the UK after passing the exam, you might need to complete additional exams, such as the GMC registration process and securing a job offer or training placement.
In order to practise medicine in the United Kingdom, international medical graduates must pass the PLAB (Professional and Linguistic Assessments Board) exam. The General Medical Council (GMC), which oversees medical practitioners in the UK, is in charge of administering it.
The PLAB exam is divided into two parts:
PLAB Part 1: This written, multiple-choice exam gauges your knowledge and comprehension of clinical practise and medical principles. It has 180 single-best-answer questions and covers a variety of subjects, such as surgery, psychiatry, paediatrics, obstetrics and gynaecology, and more. The PLAB Part 1 exam is available in many different nations.
PLAB Part 2: This practical test evaluates your clinical abilities, communication abilities, and ethical standards. There are 18 situations in all, all of them take place in the UK and include interacting with fictitious patients. Your capacity to gather data, generate accurate diagnoses, and create treatment plans is evaluated by the examiners.
You must fulfil specific requirements, such as holding a primary medical certification recognised by the GMC and possessing the appropriate English language proficiency, in order to be qualified to take the PLAB exam. The GMC's website should be checked for the most recent and comprehensive qualifying requirements.
A strong foundation in clinical expertise and medical knowledge is necessary for PLAB exam preparation. Many applicants prepare by combining self-study, books, online sources, and practise tests. Additionally, a number of for-profit businesses provide training programmes and resources created expressly for the PLAB exam.