MCCQE Part 1 — Medicine MCQs
Practice 365 Medicine past-paper MCQs for MCCQE Part 1, each with a detailed explanation and reference. Try free samples below, then start a full quiz.
Part of the full MCCQE Part 1 QBank — 1,883 questions across all subjects.
Medicine is a core part of the MCCQE Part 1 syllabus. HighYield's Medicine question bank collects 365MCQs modelled on real past papers, so you practise the exact style and difficulty you'll face on exam day. Every question comes with a worked explanation and a subject reference, so you learn why an answer is right — not just which option to pick.
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Sample Medicine Questions
A 25-year-old female presents to your office with a tick embedded in the skin on her abdomen. It was Likely acquired the previous evening when she was hiking in the woods near her home. She is currently asymptomatic. Appropriate management at this point would be to:
- A.apply a hot match to the body of the tick
- B.cover the tick with petroleum jelly
- C.remove the tick with blunt angled forceps
- D.use topical Lidocaine on the site
- E.prescribe a 3-week course of doxycycline
A 36-year-old male with a history of a seizure disorder is brought to the emergency department with generalized tonic-clonic activity. Emergency medical personnel report this has been ongoing for 20 minutes. After initial resuscitative measures, the preferred medication in this situation is:
- A.Phenytoin (Dilantin)
- B.Fosphenytoin (Cerebyx)
- C.Naloxone
- D.Lorazepam (Ativan)
- E.Valproate sodium (Depacon)
A 39-year-old homosexual man, who was diagnosed with HIV 2 years ago, presents for his annual physical exam. He currently has no complaints of any new symptoms except fatigue, which he has had for quite some time. This is how he got diagnosed 2 years ago: he had presented with a 4 day history of fever, sore throat, Lymphadenopathy, and malaise. He also had a mild diffuse headache. After ruling out infectious mononucleosis and learning of the patient's risk factors, the physician had done HIV serology that came out positive. The patient has not been on antiretroviral therapy. He has not presented with any opportunistic infection up to date. Today his temperature is 37.8°( respiratory rate 18/min, his heart rate 90/min, and his blood pressure 120/75 mmHg. WBC count: 5.3x10 9/L Hematocrit 0.37 9 Platelet count 220 x10 /L CD4+ count 0.295 x109/L Serum HIVviraL Load 100 copies/mL It is assessed that he may still be in the asymptomatic stage of HIV infection. However, it is also noted that viral replication is clearly ongoing as his CD4+ count is declining. Which of the following is the most ideal site for HIV replication?
- A.Peripheral blood
- B.Gastrointestinal tract
- C.Genital mucosal surfaces
- D.Dorsal root ganglion
- E.Thymus
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