To Add: here's a few things that tripped me up.
the term Miosis, never heard of it until this exam, wikipedia'd it on my phone following the exam though and it seems like something that should have AT LEAST been mentioned.
had a question regarding the strongest type of knot you could tie, thought that was a bit odd and had never heard of any of the knots suggested to me as possible answers.
Had 2 questions regarding closed trauma to the cranium and the expected bp levels ie: hypo or hypertensive and hadn't heard anything out of the norm in regards to that although the questions eluded to the idea of a pt's bp either remaining normal or elevated following such an injury, like i said i hadn't heard anything to that affect but who knows.
I certainly studied above/beyond the expected knowledge level of a basic however, my study group has an accumulation of over 2000 flash cards broken down by diseases, presentations, anatomy, physiology, pharmocology etc. and maybe 10% of what we have on flash cards was useful in this exam. Though i'd much rather be over prepared than under prepared.
The comment about my shorthand is simply that i've never had to do it in the past. Our class conveniently skipped over PCR's as we were "short on time." but i think in the scope of things i can easily pick that up at a later point.
