School of Medicine

In medical school, students are faced with many unique challenges. One such challenge is synthesizing countless facts and integrating them to apply to real world scenarios. Working through practice cases and question sets serves as one of the best ways to apply these concepts and assess one’s own understanding. At UCSD School of Medicine, first and second year medical students complete weekly quizzes to assess their understanding of the subject matter and to prepare for block exams. However, there is always room for supplementation of these methods. This question bank, with practice clinical scenarios in pharmacology, hematology, and infectious disease will address this issue. This will help provide students with further opportunities to apply broad concepts to real scenarios and enhance their confidence and understanding in these subject areas. These clinical cases were prepared by drawing on real patients and situations that I experienced during the clinical years of medical school. This will aid students in solidifying their knowledge base and will facilitate their success from the preclinical years to real medical practice.