{"id":1081,"date":"2010-09-01T12:05:52","date_gmt":"2010-09-01T16:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/?p=1081"},"modified":"2015-06-04T15:24:43","modified_gmt":"2015-06-04T19:24:43","slug":"testing-your-testing-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/testing-your-testing-skills\/2010\/09\/01\/","title":{"rendered":"Testing your Testing Skills"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"question\"Have I whined yet about how I’m part of the first Internal Medicine class that was not “grandfathered” through to eternal board certfication?\u00a0<\/p>\n

If not, now I have.<\/p>\n

So for you fellow test-takers, here’s another one for you, adapted somewhat\u00a0from this delightful experience<\/a> I’m required to go through every 10 years.\u00a0 Oddly, just like the last one<\/a>\u00a0reviewed here,\u00a0it involves our old friend, MRSA.<\/p>\n

18 year old kid scrapes his knee playing a sport, comes in with infection around injury.\u00a0 No purulence.\u00a0 Community MRSA is\u00a0 known to be in the community.\u00a0\u00a0What should you give him?<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. azithromycin<\/li>\n
  2. cephalexin<\/li>\n
  3. dicloxacillin<\/li>\n
  4. trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n

    Every so often one encounters a test question that is, frankly, just wrong.\u00a0\u00a0But in the often-bizarre world of “let’s pretend” patient care —\u00a0a test question — you still have to put your money down.<\/p>\n

    So what’s the\u00a0answer?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Have I whined yet about how I’m part of the first Internal Medicine class that was not “grandfathered” through to eternal board certfication?\u00a0 If not, now I have. So for you fellow test-takers, here’s another one for you, adapted somewhat\u00a0from this delightful experience I’m required to go through every 10 years.\u00a0 Oddly, just like the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[22,175,630],"class_list":["post-1081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infectious-diseases","category-medical-education","tag-abim","tag-cellulitis","tag-mrsa"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}