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The MCAT (Medical College Admissions Test) is the med school equivalent of the SAT. As you might expect, the ER-MEDCAT is the test which determines if prospective ER doctors have what it takes to succeed in the ER. With that in mind, it's time to sharpen your pencils, pop some caffeine tablets, and explore your propensity for masochism! 1) A 10 kg child requires 40 mg/kg/day of the latest antibiotic, BubbleGumicillin. What is the required daily dose of the antibiotic?
(b) 50 mg (c) 100 mg (d) 400 mg 2) Where would you prefer to be at 3 a.m. Christmas morning?
(b) Expanding your knowledge of profane words by listening to an alcoholic vent his spleen. (c) Dodging the emesis from an awakening heroin addict. (d) Listening to a foreign intern with an IQ of 85 explain why a comatose diabetic does not need admission. 3) Can you drink five cups of coffee at the start of a 12-hour shift and then refrain from urinating until your shift is over?
(b) No one needs to drink five cups of coffee. (c) Don't I get a 15-minute break every 4 hours, as mandated by federal law? (d) Yes. 4) Sleep experts recognize the importance of a regular sleep schedule. For ER physicians, this is a ludicrous impossibility. How do you plan to deal with a few decades of sleep deprivation?
(b) Drink five cups of coffee at the start of every shift. (c) By taking comfort in the fact that such a sleep deficit will reduce my life span by about 10%, thus reducing the number of shifts I'll have to work in the ER. (d) By deluding myself into thinking that my current absence of sleep problems will immunize me from any sleep problems in the future. 5) How many times per day can you wash your hands before your skin becomes as dry as parchment?
(b) 4 times. (c) 6 times. (d) 50 times. 6) Can you touch a maggot-infested person without wincing?
(b) No. 7) Can you take physical and verbal abuse from patients without retaliating?
(b) Invariably. (c) Almost always. (d) Never. 8) Which of the following activities do you enjoy in your spare time?
(b) Responding to a court subpoena to appear as a defendant in a malpractice trial, because a patient had a heart attack nine months after you saw him in the ER. (c) Attending interminable medical staff meetings in which the same subjects are rehashed year after year. (d) Responding to "Quality Assurance" referrals from physicians who have less intelligence and knowledge than a day-old hamster. (e) All of the above. 9) Imagine working as fast as you possibly can for 12 hours. Now be more realistic and imagine working four times that fast. Do you think you can do that year after year without pulling out your hair, getting an ulcer, or committing suicide?
(b) For the privilege of being able to call myself an ER doctor, I'm willing to subject myself to any level of abuse. 10) Why do you really want to be an ER doctor?
(b) I enjoy being exposed to a wide variety of communicable diseases. (c) My skin is too bad to make me a credible dermatologist. (d) Accepting the many inherent drawbacks to this branch of medicine, I choose to devote (sacrifice?) my life to providing excellent care to patients who need a caring, competent, and thorough physician.
If your score was 8 or above, the faculty and staff at the ER-MCAT welcomes you to medicine's most exciting specialty. If your score was 7 or below, you are far too normal to succeed in ER. Congratulations!
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