ABOS Oral Boards, Clinical Scenario Prep

This is a 58-year-old right-hand-dominant retired schoolteacher who fell from standing while walking her dog and landed on her outstretched ...

This is a 79-year-old woman who lives in an assisted living facility. She fell from standing in her room, a mechanical, ground-level fall. P...

This is a 34-year-old male software engineer who plays recreational basketball. He injured his left ankle during a game, an inversion and ex...

This is a 28-year-old male construction worker brought to the trauma bay after a motorcycle collision at approximately 40 miles per hour. He...

This is a 45-year-old female attorney who was struck by a car as a pedestrian at low speed. She had immediate right knee pain and could not ...

This is a 22-year-old male brought to the trauma bay after a high-speed motorcycle collision. He was helmeted but had no lower extremity pro...

This is a 19-year-old male college soccer player who sustained a closed right tibial shaft fracture during a game. He was splinted at an urg...

This is a 72-year-old woman who fell from standing at home. She had a left cemented total hip arthroplasty eight years ago for osteoarthriti...

This is a 24-year-old female Division I collegiate soccer player who sustained a non-contact pivoting injury to her right knee during a game...

This is a 55-year-old right-hand-dominant male commercial painter with a four-month history of progressive right shoulder pain and weakness....

This is a 30-year-old male firefighter who injured his right knee three weeks ago. He was carrying equipment on a wet floor, his foot plante...

This is a 42-year-old male attorney who felt a sharp pop in his left heel during a recreational tennis match. He described the classic sensa...

This is a 48-year-old right-hand-dominant female dental hygienist with an 18-month history of progressive numbness and tingling in her right...

This is a 22-year-old left-hand-dominant male college football wide receiver who fell on his outstretched right hand during practice two day...

This is a 67-year-old right-hand-dominant woman who slipped on ice and fell directly onto her left elbow. She has a history of rheumatoid ar...

This is a 35-year-old male construction worker who fell approximately 15 feet from scaffolding, landing on his head and shoulder. He was imm...

This is a 38-year-old male high school football coach with a six-week history of progressive left lower extremity radiculopathy. He describe...

This is a 64-year-old male retired postal worker who I saw 14 months after his right total knee arthroplasty, which I had performed at our i...

This is a 58-year-old female nurse, three weeks out from a right total hip arthroplasty that I performed through a posterior approach for en...

This is a 6-year-old right-hand-dominant girl brought to the emergency department by her parents after falling approximately 4 feet from a p...