Egyptian Board Family Medicine case studies
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The Egyptian Board in Family Medicine is the national specialty qualification for physicians who intend to practise comprehensive, continuing, community-based primary care in Egypt. It is aimed at graduates who have completed internship and are training in family medicine, and at practising primary care physicians who want a recognised specialist credential. The Egyptian Board Family Medicine case studies are 5 cases and about 4,561 words.
1Ramadan fasting in a bus driver with diabetes and stage 3b chronic kidney disease
A 58-year-old man with type 2 diabetes for 12 years attends your family medicine clinic in Assiut two weeks before Ramadan. He works as a school bus driver.
885 words, about 4 min2A 16-month-old with acute watery diarrhoea in a rural health unit
A 16-month-old boy is brought to a rural family health unit in Minya in August with watery diarrhoea for 3 days and vomiting twice today. He is still breastfed and takes family food.
845 words, about 4 min3Severe preeclampsia at 36 weeks in a district hospital without a neonatal unit
A 29-year-old woman, G2P1 with one previous caesarean delivery, is admitted at 36+4 weeks to a district hospital in Tanta with a 2-day history of frontal headache and epigastric pain. Blood pressure is 168/112 and 172/108 on repeat after 15 minutes; dipstick proteinuria is 3+; reflexes are brisk with two beats of clonus; platelets 92 × 10⁹/L, ALT 186 U/L, creatinine 1.1 mg/dL, haemoglobin 11.2 g/dL; urine output 60 mL over the last 2 hours.
925 words, about 5 min4Postpartum depression in a breastfeeding mother whose husband opposes medication
A 31-year-old woman attends with her husband at 7 weeks postpartum. She has a 7-week-old exclusively breastfed infant and a 4-year-old son, and delivered by caesarean.
898 words, about 4 min5Family conflict over ICU admission and feeding tube in advanced dementia
An 82-year-old woman with advanced Alzheimer's disease (MMSE 8/30, fully dependent, dysphagia, resident in a nursing home) is admitted with her third episode of aspiration pneumonia in 6 months. Temperature is 38.9 °C, oxygen saturation 88% on room air, respiratory rate 30/min, with coarse right basal crackles; she is drowsy but responds to painful stimuli and grimaces when turned.
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