Mnemonics for Medicine Differential Diagnoses and Other Pearls

For Providers and Students Seeing Adult Patients

De: Robert Gullberg

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

This 5.5 x 8 inch updated medical text is excellent for clinic or hospital rounds. The sheer volume of facts to learn and memorize in the study of Medicine can be daunting. Double boarded in both Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Dr. Gullberg has been teaching clinical medicine to students for over 30 years (Medical, Physician Assistant, and Nursing) and it is not unusual for us to deal with 25 different diagnoses while on daily hospital rounds.

Winner of numerous preceptor awards, he teaches the students the importance of having a “differential diagnosis” of a medical problem at their fingertips.The book contains over 200 “easy to recall” mnemonics and other practical charts that will aid the reader in grasping important lists of differential diagnoses regarding medical problems. He has chosen the most common internal medicine problems in 13 main categories.

Mnemonics are extremely useful in learning the details of medicine, especially when there are “lists of key causes” to remember. These lists are often on written and clinical exams and medical board tests (such as National Boards, Recertification exams, and PANCE), so it is incumbent on the student to know them well. Each mnemonic has an associated picture which will help the reader to visually engrain it. A 'keypoint' is included with each mnemonic for emphasis. He has included his “Triples, Tetrads, and Pentads” and other charts to help the reader to review numerous ‘pearls of medicine.'