Doctors Dilemma

The 2017 Missouri Doctors Dilemma contest will be at 3:50pm Saturday, Sept 16, 2017 in Salon A at Tan Tar A. Teams competing are: UMKC, MU, St Luke's, Mercy, St Mary's, SLU and Wash U. The winning team will be entered into the IM18 competition in New Orleans. 

Missouri Chapter past winners
2011 - MU
2012 - MU
2013 - UMKC
2014 - Wash U
2015 - SLU
​2016 - Wash U

Wash U 2016 Missouri Chapter winning team contest: Drs Jonas Noe,  Niall Prendergast, and Amit Bery.  A big thanks to them for representing Missouri at IM17 in San Diego.    ​

SLU Doctors Dilemma team won the 2015 Missouri Chapter contest and its first round match at IM16: Drs Anas Gremida, Ahmad Al-Taee, and Martin Schoen.

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Rules

• Teams of three Missouri Chapter of the ACP Resident Members
• Participants should currently be in year 1-3 of a Missouri Internal Medicine Residency Program and not a chief or in a fellowship.   
• Three quarterfinal matches will precede the semifinals and finals.
• One final round with the semi-finalists to determine the winner
• 15 questions per round

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1. A coin toss will determine which team goes first in each round.
   
2. All questions will be projected on the screen and read by the emcee.
   
3. Each match will consist of three categories with five questions each ranging from a value of 100 to 500.
4. The emcee will read the question aloud.  
5. A team may buzz in before the emcee finishes reading a question; however, the emcee will stop reading the remainder of the question.  You have ten seconds to answer.
6. No answer should be stated until the emcee recognizes the team which buzzed in first.
7. After the question has been completely read players have ten seconds to buzz in.  If nobody buzzes in we move to the next question with the team who made the last selection making the next selection.
   
8. Teams will score points for a correct answer. Teams will lose points for an incorrect answer.
9. After an incorrect answer, the question will be read from the beginning if it was not completely read before the incorrect answer, and the other team may buzz in. If the emcee has completely read the question before an incorrect answer, then the question will not be restated.
10. Once buzzing in, the team must answer the question within ten seconds.
11. The second team has ten seconds to buzz in after the emcee is finished reading.  The second team will have ten seconds to answer after buzzing in.  If the second team chooses not to buzz in we move to the next question with the team that made the previous selection selecting again.
    
12. The final question value is determined by each team's wager - anywhere from 0 to 100% of current points. If one team has a negative value immediately prior to the final question being read, the team that has a positive value wins.
    
13. If tied after the final question, the team with the most number of correct answers will be the winner.
14. The Missouri Chapter of the ACP has a buzzer system with lockout so it will determine which team buzzed in first.
15. Although we have made every attempt to avoid equivocal or controversial topics, debate over any answers will be settled by our panel of judges comprised of IM Program Directors and Associate Program Directors.
16. Applauding is not allowed between questions.  We will keep a very quick pace.  We ask the audience to remain quiet.
17. Finally, the primary rule is to have fun and learn.