MSCP Exam 2025/2026 – Menopause Society Certification Prep

MSCP Exam 2025/2026 – Menopause Society Certification Prep Climacteric phase - Correct Answer The period of endrocrinologic, somatic, and transitory psychologic changes that occur around the time of menopause. Early menopause - Correct Answer LMP before age 45 Late menopause - Correct Answer LMP after age 54 Primary ovarian insufficiency - Correct Answer Menopause that occurs before age 40 Early menopause transition (stage -2) - Correct Answer Persistent difference of 7 days or more in the length of consecutive cycles. Late menopause transition (stage -1) - Correct Answer 60 or more consecutive days of amenorrhea Luteal out of phase event (LOOP) - Correct Answer Explains why some perimenopausal women have elevated estrogen level sometimes...In the early menopause transition, elevated FSH levels are adequate to recruit a second follicle which results in a follicular phase-like rise in estradiol secretion superimposed on the mid-to-late luteal phase of the ongoing ovulatory cycle.