| 1. | In the study titled “Patients’ sources, views and perception of drug information, and the relationship with drug compliance in a primary care setting”, which of the following drug information is considered to be the most important? |
| A. | Pharmacological mechanism |
| B. | Drug efficacy |
| C. | Side effects of medication |
| D. | Drug cost |
| E. | Route of administration |
| 2. | Which of the following is TRUE in the above-mentioned study? |
| A. | Internet was regarded as the most important source of drug information. |
| B. | Drug information given by doctors was regarded as too difficult to understand and irrelevant to patients. |
| C. | Drug compliance rate was higher if drug information was regarded as updated and comprehensive. |
| D. | Good drug compliance was strongly associated with provision of drug information, regardless of the perceived understandability and usefulness. |
| E. | After searching drug information from internet, most patients would turn away from doctor’s advice and stop taking the medications. |
| 3. | Which one of the followings for measurement of obesity is FALSE? |
| A. | BMI provides the most useful population-level measure of overweight and obesity in adults. |
| B. | BMI should be interpreted with caution in highly muscular adults. |
| C. | Waist circumference is recommended as an adjunctive measurement for obesity in people with BMI less than 35 kg/m2. |
| D. | Bioimpedance is recommended as a substitute for BMI to measure adiposity. |
| E. | Obesity can be measured with dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA). |
| 4. | For giving health advice to patients with obesity, which one of the followings is TRUE? |
| A. | We should make use of all opportunities to give patients advice even if they are not willing to talk about it. |
| B. | A single dietary adjustment is more preferable to several changes on one occasion of giving advice to the patients. |
| C. | There is no need to involve the parents when giving advices to children in order to give the children more freedom to choose. |
| D. | Patients’ cultural backgrounds and ethnicities are not important. |
| E. | No improvement in the weight control can be expected unless we set higher standards for patients to follow. |
| 5. | Which of the following symptoms does NOT increase the likelihood of acute coronary syndrome (ACS)? |
| A. | Diaphoresis |
| B. | Pain associated with nausea and vomiting |
| C. | Pain reproducible by palpation |
| D. | Pain that radiates to the shoulder, neck, or jaw |
| E. | Pain with haemodynamic instability |
| 6. | Which of the following pre-existing electrocardiogram (ECG) abnormalities does NOT affect the interpretation of exercise ECG? |
| A. | ≥ 0.1 mV ST-segment depression on resting ECG |
| B. | Left bundle branch block |
| C. | P pulmonale |
| D. | Paced rhythm |
| E. | Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome |