Question 1: 'Endemic Disease' means that a disease ?
A) Occurs clearly in excess of normal expectancy
B) Is constantly present in a given population group
C) Exhibits seasonal patterns
D) Is prevalent among animals
Answer:
B
Question 2: Which one of the following is a good index of the severity of an acute disease ?
A) Cause specific death rate
B) Case fatality rate
C) Standardized mortality ratio
D) Five year survival
Answer:
B
Question 3: Which one of the following statements about influence of smoking on risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) is not true ?
A) Influence of smoking is independent of other risk factors for CHD
B) Influence of smoking is only additive to other risk factors for CHD
C) Influence of smoking is synergistic to other risk factors for CHD
D) Influence of smoking is directly related to number of cigarettes smoked per day
Answer:
B
Question 4: Antibiotic treatment of choice for treating cholera in an adult is a single dose of ?
A) Tetracycline
B) Co-trimoxazole
C) Doxycycline
D) Furazolidone
Answer:
C
Question 5: All of the following statements are true about Congenital Rubella except ?
A) It is diagnosed when the infant has IgM antibodies at birth
B) It is diagnosed when IgG antibodies persist for more than 6 months
C) Most common congenital defects are deafness, cardiac malformations and catarct
D) Infection after 16 weeks of gestation results in major congenital defects
Answer:
D
Question 6: The recommended daily energy intake of an adult woman with heavy work is ?
A) 1800
B) 2100
C) 2300
D) 2900
Answer:
D
Question 7: All of the following methods are anti-larval measures except ?
A) Intermittent irrigation
B) Paris green
C) Gambusia affinis
D) Malathion
Answer:
D
Question 8: All of the following are true about the Herd Immunity for infectious diseases except ?
A) It refers to group protection beyond what is afforded by the protection of immunized individuals
B) It is likely to be more for infections that do not have a sub-clinical phase
C) It is affected by the presence and distribution of alternative animal hosts
D) In the case of tetanus it does not protect the individual
Answer:
B
Question 9: The best indicator for monitoring the impact of Iodine Deficiency Disorders control programme is ?
A) Prevalence of goiter among school children
B) Urinary iodine levels among pregnant women
C) Neonatal Hypothyroidism
D) Iodine level in soil
Answer:
C
Question 10: What is the color-coding of bag in hospitals to dispose off human anatomical wastes such as body parts ?
A) Yellow
B) Black
C) Red
D) Blue
Answer:
A
Question 11: WHO defines adolescent age between ?
A) 10 - 19 years of age
B) 10 - 14 years of age
C) 10 - 25 years of age
D) 9 - 14 years of age
Answer:
A
Question 12:
In a village having population of 1000, we found patients with certain
disease. The results of a new diagnostic test on that disease are as follows.
Test Result
Disease
Present
Absent
+
180
400
-
20
400
What is the percent prevalence of disease ?
A) 0.20
B) 2
C) 18
D) 20
Answer:
D
Question 13: The following tests are used to check the efficiency of pasteurization of milk except ?
A) Phosphatase test
B) Standard plate count
C) Coliform count
D) Methylene blue reduction test
Answer:
D
Question 14: What will be the BMI of a male whose weight is 89 kg and height is 172 cm ?
A) 27
B) 30
C) 33
D) 36
Answer:
B
Question 15: The most common side effect of IUD insertion is ?
A) Bleeding
B) Pain
C) Pelvic infection
D) Ectopic pregnancy
Answer:
A
Question 16: For the treatment of case of class III dog bite, all of the following are correct except ?
A) Give Immunoglobins for positive immunity
B) Give ARV
C) Immediately stitch wound under antibiotic coverage
D) Immediately wash wound with soap and water
Answer:
C
Question 17: A 2-year-old female chlid was brought to a PHC with a history of cough and fever for 4 days with inability to drink for last 12 hours. On examination, the child was having weight of 5 kg, and respiratory rate of 45/minute with fever. The child will be classified as suffering from ?
A) Very severe disease
B) Severe Pneumonia
C) Pneumonia
D) No Pneumonia
Answer:
A
Question 18: The information technology has revolutionized the world of medical sciences. In which of the following year the Information Technology Act was passed by the Government of India ?
A) 1998
B) 2000
C) 2001
D) 2003
Answer:
B
Question 19: Transplantation of Human Organs Act was passed by Government of India in ?
A) 1996
B) 1993
C) 1998
D) 1994
Answer:
D
Question 20: Which one of the following is not source of manager's power ?
A) Reward
B) Coercive
C) Legitimate
D) Efferent
Answer:
D
Question 21: The standard normal distribution ?
A) Is skewed to the left
B) Has mean = 1.0
C) Has standard deviation = 0.0
D) Has variance = 1.0
Answer:
D
Question 22: The PEFR of a group of 11 year old girls follow a normal distribution with mean 300 l/min and standard deviation 20 l/min ?
A) About 95% of the girls have PEFR between 260 and 340 l/min
B) The girls have healthy lungs
C) About 5% of girls have PEFR below 260 l/min
D) All the PEFR must be less than 340 l/min
Answer:
A
Question 23: The events A and B are mutually exclusive, so ?
A) Prob (A or B) = Prob (A) + Prob (B)
B) Prob (A and B) = Prob (A).Prob (B)
C) Prob (A) = Prob (B)
D) Prob (A) + Prob (B) = 1
Answer:
A
Question 24: Total Cholesterol level = a + b (calorie intake) + c (physical activity) + d (body mass index); is an example of ?
A) Simple linear regression
B) Simple curvilinear regression
C) Multiple linear regression
D) Multiple logistic regression
Answer:
C
Question 25: The Hb level in healthy women has mean 13.5 g/dl and standard deviation 1.5 g/dl, what is the Z score for a woman with Hb level 15.0 g/dl ?
A) 9.0
B) 10.0
C) 2.0
D) 1.0
Answer:
D
Question 26: The diagnostic power of a test to correctly exclude the disease is reflected by ?
A) Sensitivity
B) Specificity
C) Postivity predictivity
D) Negative predictivity
Answer:
A
Question 27: Infant mortality does not include ?
A) Early neonatal mortality
B) Perinatal mortality
C) Post neonatal mortality
D) Late neonatal mortality
Answer:
B
Question 28: A cardiologist found a highly significant correlation coefficient (r=0.90, p=0.01) between the systolic blood pressure values and serum cholesterol values of the patients attending his clinic. Which of the following statements is a wrong interpretation of the correlation coefficient observed ?
A) Since there is a high correlation, the magnitudes of both the measurements are likely to be close to each other
B) A patient with a high level of systolic BP is also likely to have a high level of serum cholesterol
C) A patient with a low level of systolic BP is also likely to have a low level of serum cholesterol
D) About 80% of the variation in systolic blood pressure among his patients can be explained by their serum cholesterol values and vice a versa