About this blog
During some years of teaching Biochemistry, students have often asked me about Biochemistry Question Banks that they could use for studying. Unfortunately, there are only very few books that include significant, relevant and updated biochemistry questions for medical students.
The main goal of this blog is to offer pre-medical students, medical students and Foreign Medical Graduates (FMG), a bank of questions that could be used:
a) As a checking tool for pre-medical students about the information that they need for being properly prepared for beginning the study of Biochemistry at the Medical Colleges.
b) As a tool for medical students for self-evaluation of their preparation in specific topics before Biochemistry and NBME assessment exams
c) As a study tool for medical students and FMG who are preparing for Step I of USMLE.
Since American students need to pass the United States Medical Licensing Exams (USMLE) in order to graduate and be licensed, and Foreign Medical Graduates (FMG) who wish to work in the United States also need to pass these exams to be able to do residencies and work in the USA, the questions that appear in this blog have been written in multiple choice format and include, when possible, clinical vignettes, following the recommendations described in the NBME Guide “Constructing Written Test Questions For the Basic and Clinical Sciences” (Case, S.M and Swanson, D.B.; National Board of Medical Examiners, Third Edition Revised) (This blog is not related to these authors)
Since I believe that the best way of using a Bank of Questions is for self evaluation, the answers and the explanation to the questions will not appear the same day. I strongly recommend that you study the specific topic using your textbooks and the professor notes and then come to this site and try to answer the questions by yourselves. The answers and the appropriate explanations will be posted in a different day of the same week.
I hope that this blog can be useful to you and that you may enjoy also the additional information related to Biochemistry that I couldn’t resist including in this blog.
Dr. H.D. Urquiza Hernandez, MD
Specialist in Clinical Biochemistry
PhD in Biological Sciences
Armando Aguilar said
I have reviewed in general the contents of this blog and I find it very interesting and useful.
I’ll recommend it to some friends and specially to my nephew who is willing to study Medicine in the future.
Thank you, dear friend, for such important contribution.
Sincerely,
Don mandy
biochemistryquestions said
Thanks, Dr. Armando. I am happy that you liked it. I am planning to develop a Blog for Premed Chemistry and a Medical Biochemistry blog in Spanish. I will let you know when I begin those projects.
uyen-khanh quang-dang said
Dear Dr. Hernandez,
Wow. Thank you so much for writing such concise, clear-cut explanations. I just read your explanation on the metabolic fate of the carbon skeleton of amino acids and, having tried to glean this information from various other sources, found your explanation to be the best. I will definitely be using this site extensively — thanks again for making this site!
Best wishes,
Uyen-Khanh
biochemistryquestions said
Thanks, Uyen-Khann, for your kind words. I really really appreciate it.
David
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Flavio said
Dear Hector,
I have to double congratulate you. First, for the great content you have on this blog (Great collection of videos!) and second, for the effort you make in uploading content in spanish.
I do something similar on MCQs about pharmacology topics in my blog: pharmamotion.com.ar. I try to update my blog in spanish farmacologiaymedicina.com but I find hard to keep both blogs updated. That’s why I admire your energies in keeping up both sites. As you can see we have some things in common.
I have added “Temas de Bioquímica” to my blogroll in Farmacologiaymedicina.com. I would really appreciate if you could add pharmamotion to Biochemistry questions’blogroll.
Best,
Flavio
Dr S..Agarwal said
Dear Dr. Hernandez,
wonderful site for teaching under graduates.I have reviewed in general the contents of this blog and I find it very interesting and useful.
I will definitely be using this site extensively — thanks again for making this site!
biochemistryquestions said
Thanks for your kind words!
I am happy that this blog is useful!
Please, send your ideas for improving the blog!
Afnan said
What is the best option for Master to study after bsc biochemistry in uk?
Many thanks