DOH Doctor Exam case studies
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The Department of Health, Abu Dhabi (DOH) physician licensing examination, still widely called the HAAD doctor exam after its legacy name, is the assessment that international and UAE-based physicians typically complete as part of the credentialing pathway to practise medicine in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi. It is aimed at physicians at general-practice or entry-to-specialty level who have completed primary-source verification of their qualifications and now need to show a broad, safe, day-one clinical knowledge base. The DOH Doctor Exam case studies are 5 cases and about 3,126 words.
1Elderly woman with atrial fibrillation, a GI bleed, and an antiplatelet-sized dilemma
A 79-year-old woman with permanent atrial fibrillation, hypertension, type 2 diabetes and a right-hemispheric TIA four years ago presents with three days of black tarry stools, lightheadedness on standing, and one syncopal episode at home. Her medications are apixaban 5 mg twice daily, metoprolol, amlodipine, metformin, and naproxen 500 mg twice daily, which she has taken most days for two months for knee pain.
661 words, about 3 min2Acute cholecystitis ten weeks after a drug-eluting stent
A 78-year-old man presents with three days of right upper quadrant pain, fever to 38.7 C and vomiting. Ten weeks ago he had a drug-eluting stent placed in the left anterior descending artery after a non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction, and he takes aspirin 81 mg plus ticagrelor 90 mg twice daily, along with metoprolol, atorvastatin and lisinopril.
623 words, about 3 min3A five-week-old with fever and a positive urinalysis
A 37-day-old boy is brought to the emergency department with a temperature of 38.5 C measured rectally at home two hours ago. He was born at term, has had no antibiotics, and is not on prophylaxis.
609 words, about 3 min4Severe preeclampsia at 33 weeks in a hospital without a neonatal unit
A 32-year-old woman, gravida 2 para 1, at 33 weeks and 2 days by early dating scan, attends a district hospital with a two-day history of severe frontal headache and flashing lights. Blood pressure is 176/112 mmHg on repeat measurement, reflexes are brisk with three beats of clonus, and she has proteinuria of 3+ on dipstick.
606 words, about 3 min5Agitation on postoperative day two after hip fracture surgery
A 54-year-old man is on day two after open reduction and internal fixation of a right hip fracture. He drinks eight beers daily and has done for twenty years; his last drink was four days ago, before admission.
627 words, about 3 min