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Give these a shot. === Pale and boggy nasal mucosa should make you think of what diagnosis? What is the medical term for lazy eye? At what age should an infant begin cooing? A low retic count and a normal serum ferritin should make you think of what diagnosis? === These … [Read more...] about Do you know these off the top of your head?

I had a guy email me a while back saying he used my book and failed his exam. Anddddd that was about it in the email. Of course, results vary, but I’m a little upset when I get something like this. I emailed him back, and it turns out he didn’t really study. He bought The Final Step, went … [Read more...] about How to fail your PANCE

The temptations to screw around are everywhere. I used to love the ping pong table at my PA school. I would spend hours there playing ping pong and very specifically not working. I can’t imagine if I had a smartphone. I wouldn’t have gotten anything done. Good thing I’m old. Get control of … [Read more...] about Quit screwing around

Those huge piles of study material are such a mess I don't even know where to begin. Piles and piles of review material don’t help you. All this stuff does is take up space and create anxiety for all of the things you haven't covered in all of the books you could go through. There's no way … [Read more...] about How to choose resources

Confidence comes from previous successes. Plain and simple. Even success at completely unrelated things. Your confidence in learning medicine may come from having done well in anatomy. Lack of confidence comes from the same place. You may be terrified of Pharm because you did awful … [Read more...] about Anxiety vs Confidence