All physicians know about the "boards" - they refer to the United States Medical Licensing Examination or USMLE. (There are specialty boards as well after that!) To become a full-fledged doctor in the U.S., you must take 4 exams: USMLE Step 1, Step 2 CK, Step 2 CS, and Step 3.
Most students regard Step 1 as the most important. Consequently, a lot of preparation goes into preparation for Step 1. I'll readily admit that I viewed Step 1 with quite a bit of dread. It's over now, obviously, and I've just begun preparation for Step 2 CK. However, this time around, I'm actually (somewhat) looking forward to the preparation. Here's why:
1) It's going to be a great review for intern year. I'm going into medicine and the bulk of CK is medicine. And since I've been removed from my clinical years for a while, it's nice to go back to the material. I'm beginning to dust out the cobwebs.
2) Outcome is directly proportional to effort. There aren't not too many things like that anymore.
3) USMLE World. You teach me so much.
4) How cool are mneumonics like CARDIACRIND* and WiLLiaM MaRRoW?**
*Causes of pericarditis:
Collagen vascular disease
Aortic dissection
Radiation
Drugs
Infection
Acute renal failure
Cardiac (MI)
Rhematic fever
Injury
Neoplasms
Dressler's Syndrome
**LBBB: W pattern of QRS in V1 and V2 and M pattern of QRS in V3-V6 vs. RBBB: M pattern of QRS in V1 and V2 and W pattern of QRS in V3-V6
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