Everyone is now done with exam 1 (yay! great job!!). I want to let you know that there were some questions that were new this year, and they had errors in them. I’ll list each question, along with an explanation of what went wrong, and how I’m going to address the errors.

Question 25

Fix for this question: accept both the original answer AND the answer about asbestos exposure.

Question 30

Explanation: This question has a big typo that basically made all the answers incorrect 😦 What I meant to say in the stem was that a child had edema, LOW (NOT HIGH) serum albumin, and high serum lipids with a normal-appearing renal biopsy. That would have been a great definition of minimal change disease – except in that disorder, serum protein (including albumin) is LOW, not high.

Here are two relevant questions from the renal path lecture (slides 11 and 12):

Fix for this question: delete question from exam, since there is no correct answer.

Question 31

Explanation: I was thinking just of IgA nephropathy, but the way the question stem is worded, both IgA nephropathy and post-infectious (post-streptococcal) glomerulonephritis are correct.

Fix for this question: Both IgA nephropathy and post-infectious (post-streptococcal) glomerulonephritis will be accepted as correct.

Bottom line

Okay – that’s it for questions – whew! I’m not allowed to rescore the exam until I return from vacation – so unfortunately you won’t see your Canvas score change for a few weeks. But you can determine, from the above information, what your new score will be on your own 🙂

Email me if you have any questions or comments!