Kuwait Board Family Medicine case studies
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The Kuwait Board in Family Medicine is a national specialty qualification for physicians who intend to practise comprehensive primary care in Kuwait. It is aimed at residents who have completed accredited family medicine training and at practising primary care doctors seeking specialty recognition. The Kuwait Board Family Medicine case studies are 5 cases and about 4,143 words.
1Pre-Ramadan counselling in a patient with type 2 diabetes, CKD and a history of hypoglycaemia
Yousef is 52 and works as an administrative clerk in a Kuwaiti ministry. He has had type 2 diabetes for nine years; his last HbA1c was 9.1% and his eGFR is 42 mL/min/1.73 m².
778 words, about 4 min2Inferior STEMI in a polyclinic with no thrombolysis and a hypotensive patient
A 58-year-old Bangladeshi accountant walks into your polyclinic at 14:20, 90 minutes after the onset of central crushing chest pain that began while he was climbing stairs. He is grey, clammy and clearly frightened.
830 words, about 4 min3HPV-positive ASC-US in a woman trying to conceive, with a seven-month colposcopy wait
Nouf is 34, married, a teacher in Hawally. She had her first cervical smear three months ago at a routine well-woman visit; reflex HPV testing was positive for a high-risk type and cytology showed ASC-US.
824 words, about 4 min4Recurrent falls and a prescribing cascade in an 84-year-old with mild cognitive impairment
Fatima is 84, widowed, and lives with her son's family in Farwaniya. She attends with her daughter-in-law, who says Fatima has fallen twice in three months, once in the bathroom at night and once in the kitchen; neither fall caused a fracture.
831 words, about 4 min5Smear-positive pulmonary TB in a domestic worker whose employer demands the diagnosis
Maricel is 29, a Filipino domestic worker in Salmiya who has been with the same Kuwaiti household for 14 months. She has had a cough for six weeks, drenching night sweats and 6 kg of weight loss.
880 words, about 4 min