Board Rounds Prep for USMLE and COMLEX
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Board Rounds Prep for USMLE and COMLEX
A collaboration between the Medical School Headquarters and BoardVitals, Board Rounds for the USMLE Step 1 and COMLEX Level 1 is here to make sure you are as prepared as possible when you walk into to take your board exam. This test can make or break your residency dreams and we want to make sure yo...
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52 episodes
52: What's Causing This College Freshman's Anxiety?
An 18-y/o college freshman presents with increased social anxiety. He wants to make friends but is afraid of being rejected. What's his diagnosis?
51: What Is Making This Man's Heart Skip a Beat?
A 36-y/o male presents to the hospital because he fears his heart may be "skipping a beat." His workup and history are normal, so what's causing his s...
50: Why Is This Boy Torturing and Killing Animals?
A 15-year-old boy has a history of torturing and killing animals. He has also exhibited violent behavior towards other students at school. What's his...
49: Sweating the Details: Is it an Attack or a Disorder?
A 52-y/o female presents with short, reoccurring episodes of chest tightness, pounding palpations, shortness breath, and severe anxiety. What's her di...
48: What Is Causing This Student's Anxiety?
A 20-y/o student presents with anxiety, but her other symptoms suggest her diagnosis may not be so straight-forward. If it isn't GAD, what could it be...
47: USMLE and COMLEX Prep: Cranial Nerve Nuclei
Using our knowledge of cranial nuclei and some spacial awareness, which cranial nerve nuclei receives fibers from the carotid baroreceptors? Let's fin...
46: USMLE and COMLEX Prep: Glossopharyngeal Nerve Innervation
More glossopharyngeal neuroanatomy! This gland is innervated by the efferent autonomic fibers of the glossopharyngeal nerve. Name that gland!
45: USMLE and COMLEX Prep: Glossopharyngeal Nerve Anatomy
Where does the branchial motor component of the glossopharyngeal nerve originate? Join us and see how well you know your neuroanatomy.
44: USMLE and COMLEX Prep: Trigeminal Nerve Physiology
Can you accurately identify the various functions of the trigeminal nerve and its major divisions? Follow along to test your knowledge of neuroanatomy...
43: USMLE and COMLEX Prep: Chemical Composition of Gallstones
A 32-y/o woman with acute cholecystitis has a past medical history of autoimmune hemolytic anemia. Which substance is likely to be found in her gallst...
42: USMLE and COMLEX Prep: Etiology of Postoperative Cholecystitis
A 46-y/o female has RUQ pain and distension following surgical repair of a splenic laceration. Which process most likely resulted in her current condi...
41: Thinking Through a Facial Neuroanatomy Question
A 62-year-old female presents with impared taste and drooping on the right side of her face, but her hearing is normal. Where is the probable lesion l...
40: Do You Know Your Anatomy in Reference to a C-Section?
A 28-y/o female presents with a painful, lower-abdominal mass two days after a c-section. What is the most likely site of injury that led to this hema...
39: USMLE and COMLEX Prep: Spinal Cord Pathology
A 70-y/o male has hypoesthesia of the trunk, hypoalgesia, and decreased temperature discrimination. Which diagnosis accounts for residual pallesthesia...
38: USMLE and COMLEX Prep: Acute Renal Failure
A 52-year-old female with renal failure has perioral numbness, paresthesias of the hands and feet, and muscle cramps. What metabolic findings might we...
37: Risk Factors and Signs of Kidney Disease
What does this patient's decreased creatnine clearance and oliguria tell you? What risk factors are behind his condition? Would you give him contrast...
36: Thinking Through a Thyroid Problem With Histology
This adult female with persistent fatigue complains of feeling cold. Listen to the lab values and look at the image in the show notes. What is the eti...
35: What Organism Is Causing this Pneumonia?
Infectious Disease! A young man presents with increasing SOB and green sputum. Sputum culture shows α-hemolytic gram positive cocci in chains. Name th...
34: Possible Complications of Deep Vein Thrombosis
A patient with a DVT has not been using his heparin, and now he's back with LLE weakness. What are his heart sounds, cranial MRI, and history revealin...
33: Thinking Through a Radiating Holosystolic Murmur
This middle-aged male has hypertension and diabetes. Which cardiac abnormality is giving rise to his radiating, high-pitched, holosystolic murmur?
32: What Is the Location of this Myocardial Infarction?
Crushing substernal chest pain, bradycardia, elevated troponin, and decompensating! What are the subjective and objective signs of myocardial infarcti...
31: A Lung Tumor With Popcorn-Like Calcifications
A 55-y/o heavy smoker is shown to have a peripheral, well-circumscribed mass with popcorn-like calcifications in the RUL. What is the lesion likely co...
30: Which of These Bacteria Are Causing Pneumonia?
A 55-y/o heavy smoker is shown to have a peripheral, well-circumscribed mass with popcorn-like calcifications in the RUL. What is the lesion likely co...
29: What Do Neurotransmitters Have to Do With Amenorrhea?
Which of these neurotransmitters is mostly likely causing this patient’s galactorrhea and secondary amenorrhea? Where is it coming from?
Dr. Kar...
28: The Clinical Signs of Renal Allograft Rejection
A patient with a 2-month-old kidney transplant has elevated creatinine, fever, and tenderness at the graft region. What other finding is likely presen...
27: Peptides and Isolated Cardiac Amyloidosis
A patient with a history of arrhythmia is found to have atrial amyloid deposition on autopsy. Do you know what peptide is associated with this finding...
26: Why Is This Menstruating Patient So Sick?
A 20-year-old menstruating adult is tachycardic, somnolent, and hypotensive with GI symptoms and macular rash. What sort of organism do you suspect?
25: What will we See with Potential Pediatric Infection?
Dr. Karen Shackelford form BoardVitals joins us once again as we dig deep into a question about the hematopoietic and immune system.
Listen to t...
24: The Mechanism of Hepatitis D Superinfection
We're joined by Dr. Karen Shackelford from BoardVitals as we talk about hepatitis and how antigens and antibodies appear and disappear during the cour...
23: Etiology of an Absent Nerve Reflex of the Palate
We're joined by Dr. Karen Shackelford from BoardVitals as we tackle a neuro question this week.
Maximize your Step 1/Level 1 prep by checking ou...
22: What is Causing This Pancreatitis?
Today, we tackle a pathophysiology question related to pancreatitis. Once again, we're joined by Dr. Karen Shackelford from BoardVitals. Check out the...
21: Sequelae of Streptococcal Pharyngitis
Today, we’ve got some interesting case of a 14-year-old male with some malaise and abdominal pain.
Once again, we're joined by Dr. Karen Shackel...
20: Fetal Stress Test: USMLE and COMLEX Prep
Today, we tackle another maternal-fetal or pregnancy question.
We're joined once again by Dr. Karen Shackelford from BoardVitals. They offer a c...
19: Appropriate Management of PPROM at 26 Weeks Gestation
Today, we have Dr. Karen Shackelford from Bard Vitals, joining us as we break down another question.
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18: Determining Causative Agent of a Severe and Painful Rash
As always, I'm joined by Dr. Karen Shackelford from Board Vitals. If you haven't yet, check out Board Vitals and use the promo code BOA...
17: USMLE and COMLEX Prep: 10 y/o Pediatric Patient
Dr. Karen Shackelford from BoardVitals is joining me once again for another round of discussion. This week, we tackle a certain kind of pediatric illn...
16: USMLE and COMLEX Prep: 26 y/o Pregnant Immigrant
We're joined once again by Dr. Karen Shackelford from BoardVitals. This week, we discuss a case about an immigrant from Central America who's pregnant...
15: USMLE and COMLEX Prep: Tropical Medicine—Dengue Fever
This week, we're joined by Dr. Karen Shackelford from BoardVitals.
If you're looking for more prep with your USMLE Step 1 or COMLEX Level 1 trai...
14: USMLE and COMLEX Prep: Psychiatry—Coping Mechanisms
Our psychiatry question is asking us to identify the description of behavior for our 38 y/o male patient. Follow along to test your knowledge of psych...
13: USMLE and COMLEX Prep: Mechanism of Injury for Foot Weakness
We have a great musculoskeletal question for today. As always, we’re joined by Dr. Andrea Paul from Board Vitals.
A 27-year-old male is undergoi...