Pathology EMQ template.

Name: Timothy Jagelman

Candidate number: 5286

Theme: Herpes and retroviral infections

OPTION LIST

A	Adenovirus	I	HTLV
B	CMV	J	Pertussis
C	EBV	K	Rhinovirus
D	HHV 6	L	Rotavirus
E	HHV 8	M	RSV
F	HIV	N	S.aureus
G	HSV 1	O	TB
H	HSV 2	P	VSZ

For each scenario below, choose the most appropriate answer from the list above. Each option may be used once, more than once or not at all.

1. A patient asks you to leave a dermatology consultation. On your way out you notice that he has a number of dark purple lesions on his forearms. When you come back the consultant asks what virus could cause them.

2. When reviewing a child’s red book as part of a full paediatric history in a development clinic you notice that his newborn hearing screen was abnormal and he was a very small baby. The consultant tells you this was due to an infection mum got in pregnancy.

3. Whilst visiting a pharmacy as part of your GP attachment a patient arrives with a prescription for anti-virals in both oral and eye-drop preparations.

4. An ophthalmologist encourages you to examine a patient’s left eye as it has a “really rather beautiful ulcer”.

5. In a GUM clinic you see a worried young man who started university two weeks ago and had just about recovered from freshers week when he discovered an intensely itchy rash of small blisters on his penis.

ANSWERS

1. E

2. B

3. P

4. G

5. H