TUTORIAL ON BASIC OBSTETRIC

1. What is LMP?
2. What is relevance of the menses and the LMP in a woman?
3. How do you calculate Expected date of delivery (EDD) in a patient with regular
28 30 days cycle? Whose rule is that and when is it applicable? Give an
example of date to calculate EDD and Period of amenorrhoea (POA).
4. How do you calculate the EDD in a patient with regular 2 or 3 monthly cycles?
5. What is difference between POA and Period of gestational (POG) in clinical
practice?
6. When do you use POA and when do you use POG in clinical practice?
7. In a patient unsure of date or have no date for last normal menstrual period
(LNMP), how do you determine the EDD?
8. What is term and what is the implication?
9. What does the following mean
a. G3P2
b. G3P1+1
c. G8P3+4
10. Does G8p3+4 means recurrent miscarriage?
11. How do write the parity of a woman with a history of one twin and currently in
her third pregnancy and has 3 living children?
12. How do you write the parity of a woman in her fourth pregnancy with a history of
one still birth and 2 living children?
13. What is definition of booking and why it is necessary?
14. What are the necessary basic investigations sent from the antenatal clinic?
15. What is normal schedule for antenatal follow up?
16. What is ATT injection? What is the purpose of giving it in a pregnant woman and
how often do you need to give it?
17. What does VDRL positive means and what should you do?
18. What does Hep Ag and Ab positive or negative means and what is the
implication?
*these are some amongst the most common basic questions will be asked in examination.
So take a note and study it!!!