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MCQ Questions For introduction to EBM

1. _____When you see patients during your clinical rounds, what types of questions you usually ask?
a) Background questions about the nature of the disease
b) Foreground questions about the diagnosis, therapy or prognosis of your patients
c) Specific interviewing questions to your patient in order to get a clearer picture about
his condition
d) All of the above
e) A and B
f) A and C
2. _____When you have questions regarding a new patient you see in the clinic, which of the
following information sources you use. Tick all that applies
a) Your own knowledge about the condition of the patient
b) Your colleagues opinion about the patient
c) Your seniors and consultant opinion
d) Information from text books
e) Information from medical journals
f) Information from the internet
3. _____The major draw back of depending only on your knowledge to answer a question related
to patient is
a) Your knowledge is limited
b) Your knowledge is very recent
c) Your knowledge gradually decline after graduation
d) You are not confident in your knowledge
e) More recent knowledge are continuously developing
f) C and E
g) A and D
4. _____The major draw back of relying only on expert opinion in solving patients problems is
a) Experts are arrogant and it is difficult to ask them
b) Experts are sometimes wrong
c) Experts dont agree with each other
d) Experts dont have knowledge
e) A and D
f) B and C




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5. _____Medical journals
a) very few
b) They address few diseases and conditions
c) They are enormous and contain lots of information
d) Information in medical journals need critical appraisal
e) All of the above
f) C and D
g) B and D
6. _____The major limitation in the internet as a source of information is
a) Very few information is available
b) Needs very high technical skills to use it
c) All information over the net require subscription and payment
d) Not all internet sources of information are trustable
e) Huge amount of information are available
f) B and D
g) D and E