The other day my kids and I were looking some things and laughing and laughing.
– A gaggle = group of birds
– A pod = group of dolphins
– A school = group of fish
– A copse = small group of trees
– A pride = a group of lions
– A conspiracy = a group of lemurs
My wife always wants me to say cohort when I’m talking about a class of PA students. She’s in education, and apparently, that’s the lingo, but I have trouble saying it. I would struggle to say, “Hey, there goes a conspiracy of lemurs.” But I could say, “Did you see that school of fish.”
Getting comfortable with the lingo matters and making it feel right off your tongue. If you don’t feel comfortable using terms in your normal speech, you’re going to struggle to produce those terms when you need them. That was the impetus for a project I started a long time ago that was filled with word searches and crossword puzzles just to get you playing with the terminology. That project floundered when I got bored with it, who knows maybe I’ll go back to it one day, but the point is you need to be using the terms.
I can’t offer you the words searches, but I can provide you with another way to practice with the terms and the knowledge – The Final Step. It’s a review book filled with over 1,200 simple, straight forward questions designed to get your brain working with the terminology. It’s active, so no just reading along and assuming the stuff gets stuck in your mind (that doesn’t work). This book is nothing but question after question after question — boom, boom, boom. Working with The Final Step will keep all of the most important ideas in medicine (as far as the PANCE is concerned) on the tip of your tongue.
AND if you want to do something extra sweet for your cohort, reach out to me and let’s set up a group order for your school. It’s simple. You don’t have to organize a thing or any collect money or track people down. You reach out to me. I set your cohort up with a unique URL. You send out that URL, however, is easiest for you. Your classmates get a SIGNIFICANT discount on The Final Step, and you get your brook free. Easy peasy. Hit reply and say “I want my free book” and we’ll get started before the sun goes down.
Brian Wallace
P.S. An army of caterpillars might be my favorite.
