Lunch lady crew 👨‍🍳

2 things you can treat on the USMLE/COMLEX with Potassium-Iodide? - Hyperthyroidism / Grave's Disease - Sporotrichosis! (most people don't know this one). Recall that the TOC is actually itraconazole tho! #MedTwitter #MedEd #MedStudentTwitter

The BEST thing you can do as a #Resident or #MedStudent is to look up every condition you are about to manage in a board resource (or question bank via search function) Even stuff you treat frequently! There’s always atleast one thing you can learn from each case #MedTwitter

Too busy to exercise some days while on rotations? Take the stairs every time. Good enough is better than not at all

As a student on a rotation, becoming a pro at dressings & wound care is one of the ways to find tasks to complete for patients, that you don't have to run by your residents every day. It starts with being prepared for rounds and having all of the dressing supplies ready -->

Crazy that so many people on here hate on Elon Musk. Can’t scroll without seeing it. The dude will quite possibly end up as one of the most impactful people of the last 500 years. Idk, just cool to see someone be so publicly accessible with such varied interests and still be…

~ Little med school rant ~ 1️⃣ It's not your fault you are struggling or have not reached your Potential. (Poor advice/conflicting advice/n=1 recommendations/academic advisors that don’t know literally anything about board prep/etc)

Pearl that I heard from an elderly surgeon: “Most of our surgeries are palliative whether we want to admit it or not. Pre-op patient education is key”

The come up

Tag your friends to remind and encourage them! ❤ ⠀ #medicalstudents #medschool #medical #doctor #USMLE #mentoring #motivation #quotes #success

~ Some (not so) interesting renal physio for #USMLE / #COMLEX ~ - Kidneys get 25% of cardiac output - Low resistance arterial bed (forward diastolic flow!) - Low flow is detected byyyyyy________ (see next for answer)

For anyone with a creative side/ desire to become an entrepreneur in medicine - think of ways how your specialty can help you attack problems in totally unrelated fields, by taking alternative perspectives. This is an interesting thought exercise you can try while on rotations:

As my PD says: “Optics is everything” Can be applied to a lot of things

Nothing better than waking up & seeing one of your mentees crushing it 🙌

What to do if a patient has bloody bowel movement after AAA repair? 🤔 #actionpotentialmentoring #md #do #medicine #osteopathic #medschool #medstudents #USMLE #success