Here is some information about Exam 1.

General info

The exam will be delivered by ExamSoft like we have done in our previous courses. It will be available all day on Wednesday, 10/12/21 (from 12:01 am until 11:59 pm). You’ll have 2 hours to take it once you open it, and you’ll need to submit it by 11:59 pm.

Accommodations

If you have exam accommodations, could you please send me a quick email reminder? I just want to be sure I get everyone’s timings correct. Thank you!

Exam breakdown

Here’s the breakdown by content (I broke the heart lectures down further into subtopics):

• Blood vessel pathology – 5 questions
• Heart failure – 1 question
• Congenital heart diseases – 2 questions
• Ischemic heart disease – 3 questions
• Heart valve disease – 1 question
• Cardiomyopathy – 1 question
• Respiratory pathology – 5 questions
• Renal pathology – 7 questions
• Upper GI pathology – 2 questions
• Lower GI pathology – 3 questions
• Pancreas, Liver, and Gallbladder pathology (slides 1-37) – 3 questions
• Pancreas, Liver, and Gallbladder pathology (slides 38-51) – 2 questions (see below!)

Specific testing topics from part 2 of the Pancreas, Liver and Gallbladder lecture

Since slides 38-51 of the Pancreas, Liver and Gallbladder lecture were only covered today, and it’s very close to exam time, I’d like to let you know which of these slides to focus on for the exam. In class, I mentioned 3 topics, but I decided to make it even more focused. There will be one exam question on each of these 2 topics:

1. Acute Pancreatitis

Here is the slide that covers this topic:

2. Pancreatic Carcinoma

Here is the slide that covers this topic:

I’ll post the password shortly before the exam starts on Wednesday. Please let me know if you have any questions!