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Hi everyone.......I have heard that some of the programs ask to present an interesting case during the interview. Can anyone provide some information on this topic?
What kind of cases can be presented and to present the case??

Thank you very much in advance.

  #2

I was asked to present a case which was not on my CV or personal statement.

I just presented a case which had a little diagnostic challenge.

Another attending asked me my viewpoint on the case presented n the morning report.


  #3

Hi....thanks for the information.

How can we search some good cases? do we really have to present the cases which we encountered during our rotations? Or can we make up a case? If so is there any way to make a case?



  #4

Please anyone...let me know.


  #5

mAN very few cases in day to day practice are interesting...recall any decent case you saw in your rotation and spruce up the story a bit to make its interesting...A good movie director can make a dull story look thrilling in a movie...be that director...

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  #6

be quentin tarantino! pulp fiction

  #7

I just learnt this a few days ago, but the key to presenting an 'interesting case' is to start with a history and PE and come up with a list of differentials. then eliminate all the other differentials based on the history, physical examinations or investigations. If there were investigations you could have done but didn't do because of the limited resources from where you are from- you can state that too (It makes for good conversation). It can be - an unusual presentation of a common disease or an uncommmon disease that you talk about. BUt how you talk about it is most important. there needs to be a 'logical reasoning' aspect of it.


  #8

watch a few episodes of 'HOUSE' and u should be ok ...

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  #9

amen brotha...watch 'HOUSE' grin

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  #10

house is cool. even though its over board sometimes. Did u watch yesterdays episode. Can a doctor advise a patient to commit suicide?grin

  #11

is that considered euthanasia? or as Ali G would say .. youth-in-Asia ...nyone seen the Borat movie ?

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John Henry "Doc" Holliday, an American dentist, gambler and gunfighter of the Old West frontier,remembered for his associations with Wyatt Earp and the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

  #12

Also, does L-Dopa really wake pts from a coma state?







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