MED SCHOOL RADIO

Oceania University of Medicine interviewed me regarding my final year and experiences studying at OUM - the first medical school to incorporate an online component into their curriculum.

日本語で自己紹介をします。よろしくお願いします。アメリカ医学生の臨床研修をやっています。Interview on Japanese radio in 2008 and today - PhD to MD.

I am using DIT and Dr. Fischer's Integrated cases (MedQuest) to improve my USMLE prep

USMLE STEP 1 prep

MSR NEWS

Reading Zanki to prepare for the USMLE Step 1

Step one review

USMLE review

Rapid COVID test while reading REPRODUCTIVE ANKI (ZANKI) for the USMLE

USMLE review #26

FA 2020 - p122 Therapeutic antibodies

FA 2020 - p120-121 Immunosuppressants and recombinant cytokines and clinical uses

FA 2020 - p119 transplant rejection

FA 2020 - p116-118 immunodeficiencies

FA 2020 - p114-115 blood transfusion reactions and autoantibodies

FA 2020 - p112-113 hypersensitivity types

FA 2020 - p111 Vaccination

FA 2020 - p110 cell surface proteins, passive versus active immunity

FA 2020 - p109 The respiratory burst and interferons

FA 2020 - p108 Important cytokines

FA 2020 - p107 Complement disorders

FA 2020 - p106 Complement

FA 2020 - p105 Immunoglobulin isotypes, antigen type and memory

FA 2020 - p104 Antibody structure and function

FA 2020 - p103 T and B cell activation

FA 2020 - p102 differentiation of T cells, +/- selection etc

FA 2020 - p101 Functions of natural killer cells / major functions of B/T cells

FA 2020 - p100 MHC 1 & 2, HLA subtypes

FA 2020 - p99 Innate vs adaptive immunity

FA 2020 - p98 Spleen and thymus

FA 2020 - p97 lymphatic drainage

FA 2020 - p96 lymphoid structures

USMLE Step 1 review #24 - Microbiology only

Easily confused medications

Reading First Aid 2020

USMLE Step 1 review #23

NBME sample questions - Behavioral sciences

USMLE Step 1 review #22

USMLE review #21 FACEBOOK LIVE

USMLE Step 1 review #20

USMLE Step 1 review #19

Opportunistic fungi - Aspergillus fumigatus

Cutaneous mycoses - Dermatophytes

Cutaneous mycoses - Sporothrix schenckii

Cutaneous mycoses - Malessezia furfur

Systemic mycoses - Paracoccidioides brasiliensis

Systemic micoses - Blastomycoses dermatitidis

Systemic mycoses - Coccidiodes immitis

Systemic mycoses - Histoplasma capsulatum

Episode 303: Spirochetes - Leptospirosis

Spirochetes - Treponema pallidum

Spirochetes - Borrelia burgdorferi

Mycobacteria - Mycobacterium leprae

Mycobacteria - Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Gram indeterminate - Rickettsia rickettsii

Gram indeterminate - Rickettsia prowazekii

Gram indeterminate - Rickettsia overview

Gram indeterminate - Mycoplasma pneumonia

Gram indeterminate - Gardenerella vaginalis

Gram indeterminate - Chlamydia trachomatis

Gram negative rods - Bartonella henselae

Gram negative rods - Pasteurella multocida

Gram negative rods - Coxiella burnetti

Gram negative rods - Francisella telarensis tularemia

Gram negative rods - Brucella

Gram negative rods - Legionella

Episode 286: Gram negative rods - Hemophilus influenza

Gram negative rods: Bordatella pertussis

Gram negative bacilli - Vibrio cholera

Gram negative bacilli - Salmonella

USMLE Step 1 review #18 (Physiology only)

USMLE Step 1 review #17 (Physiology only)

USMLE Step 1 review #16

USMLE Step 1 review #15

Gram negative bacilli - Pseudomonas

Gram negative bacilli - Helicobacter pylori

Gram negative bacilli - Klebsiella, Enterobacter, Serratia

Gram negative bacteria - Campylobacter jejuni

Gram negative bacilli - Escherichia coli

Gram negative bacilli - Shigella

Gram negative bacilli - Yersinia enterocolitica & Yersinia pestis

Gram negative bacilli - Proteus mirabilis

Gram negative cocci - Neisseria meningitides

Gram negative cocci - Neisseria gonorrhea

USMLE Step 1 review # 14 (Micro only)

USMLE Step 1 review #13

USMLE Step 1 review #12

Cornybacterium diphtheria

Neisseria overview

Actinomyces israelii

Nocardia

Listeria monocytogenes

Clostridium perfringes

Clostridium difficile

Clostridium botulinum

Enterococcus - E. Faecalis and E. Faecium

Bacillus anthracis and Bacillus cereus

Episode 255: Gram positive bacilli - Clostridium tetani

Gram positive cocci - Staph epidermidis and Staph saprophyticus

Gram positive cocci - Group A strep - Strep pyogenes

Episode 252: Gram positive cocci - strep pneumonia and strep viridans

Gram positive cocci - Group B strep, Strep agalactiae

Gram positive cocci - Staphlococcus aureus

USMLE Review #10

USMLE Step 1 review #9

USMLE Step 1 review #8

USMLE Step 1 review #6

USMLE Step 1 review #6 

Episode 244 - USMLE educational objectives #3

USMLE educational objectives #2

Sketchy - Staphylococcus aureus

Pediatrics / Neonatology shelf exam review session

Episode 240 - USMLE summaries

Reading USMLE educational objectives 2

Reading USMLE educational objectives 1

Decompensated heart failure

Pathologystudent.com The three causes of portal hypertension

FA USMLE Review - 3

A 30-year-old woman with unsteady gait and numbness of both legs

A 69-year-old woman with progressive difficulty of vision

A 60-year-old man with a cough for two months

Lightheadedness and dizziness that resolve after eating a meal

A 16-year-old boy is undergoing evaluation for jaundice

FA USMLE Review - 2

FA USMLE Review - 1

Lang biochem - Medium-Chain Acyl-CoA Dehydrogenase deficiency

Lang biochem - Systemic primary carnitine deficiency

Lang biochemistry - Carbohydrate metabolism review

Lang biochem - Carbohydrate metabolism contents

Guess the autoantibody for these conditions

Pathologystudent.com - Zollinger Ellison syndrome

Pathologystudent.com - Two types of gastric carcinoma

Pathologystudent.com -The Sister Mary Joseph nodule

Pathologystudent.com - The gist of GISTs

Pathologystudent.com - Super short, super high yield food poisoning pearl

Pathologystudent.com - Pseudomembranous colitis

Pathologystudent.com - Menetrier disease

Pathologystudent.com - Dietary influences on gastric cancer

Pathologystudent.com - Cholera

Pathologystudent.com - Angiodysplasia

Pathologystudent.com - Abetalipoproteinemia

Pathologystudent.com - What's the name of the spaghetti and meatballs yeast

210. Pathologystudent.com - Uremia

Pathologystudent.com -Two ways osteoblasts make bone

208. Pathologystudent.com - Two types of esophageal carcinoma

Pathologystudent.com - Two developmental neck cysts

Pathologystudent.com - Top three renal causes of nephrotic syndrome

Pathologystudent.com - Three similar words, three totally different cells

Pathologystudent.com - Small round blue cell tumor mnemonic Mr. Sleep

Pathologystudent.com - Six GI polyposis syndromes

Pathologystudent.com - Renal cell carcinoma

Pathologystudent.com - Remember how the glands look in different parts of the stomach

Pathologystudent.com - PSGN mnemonic

Pathologystudent.com - Paget disease and jigsaw puzzles

Pathologystudent.com - Nephrotic vs. nephritic syndrome symptoms

Pathologystudent.com - Nephrotic vs nephritic syndrome (ways to remember them)

Pathologystudent.com - Minimal change disease

Pathologystudent.com - Microscopic colitis

Pathologystudent.com - Meckel diverticulum

Pathologystudent.com - Mallory-Weiss syndrome

Pathologystudent.com - How to study diseases - Use four categories

Pathologystudent.com - Intestinal obstruction

Pathologystudent.com - Small round blue cell tumor mnemonic Mr. Sleep

Pathologystudent.com - Six GI polyposis syndromes

Pathologystudent.com - Renal cell carcinoma

Pathologystudent.com - Remember how the glands look in different parts of the stomach

Pathologystudent.com - PSGN mnemonic

Pathologystudent.com - Paget disease and jigsaw puzzles

Pathologystudent.com - Nephrotic vs. nephritic syndrome symptoms

Pathologystudent.com - Nephrotic vs nephritic syndrome (ways to remember them)

Pathologystudent.com - Minimal change disease

Pathologystudent.com - Microscopic colitis

Pathologystudent.com - Meckel diverticulum

Pathologystudent.com - Mallory-Weiss syndrome

Pathologystudent.com: How to study diseases - Use four categories

Pathologystudent.com - Hirschsprung disease

Pathologystudent.com - Helicobacter pylori a strong little bugger

Pathologystudent.com - Esophageal webs

Pathologystudent.com - Esophageal causes of hematemesis

Pathologystudent.com - Eosinophillic esophagitis

Pathologystudent.com - Causes of peritonitis

Pathologystudent.com - Brittle bone disease

Pathologystudent.com - Azotemia

Pathologystudent.com - Are hemolytic-uremic syndrome & thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura related?

Pathologystudent.com - Acute tubular necrosis

Guillan-Barre syndrome

Ornithine transcarbamoylase deficiency & hyperammonemia

Lesions of the subthalamic nucleus & contralateral hemiballism

Neisseria meningitidis & Waterhouse-Friederichsen syndrome

Uncal herniation and CN3 palsy

Lesions of the inferior frontal gyrus (expressive aphasia)

Subacute and chronic subdural hemorrhages

Pineal masses and Parinaud syndrome

The BBB, dopamine and L-Dopa

Delirium tremors and alcohol

GLUT4 insulin-dependent glucose transporters

Chronic pancreatitis and steatorrhea

Fibrocystic breast changes

Absence of uridine diphosphate glucuonyl transferase

How excessive thyroid hormone affects the cardiovascular system

Hunter syndrome

Ethacrynic acid 

Primary sclerosing cholangitis

 Donepezil

Bupropion

A two-year-old boy is brought to your office after his parents noticed a large abdominal mass while dressing him

An eight-year-old girl presents to your clinic complaining of blurry vision

An 18-year-old woman presents to the clinic with a recurrent sinus infection

An 80-year-old man is admitted to the hospital for treatment of a burn

A six-year-old girl has the sudden onset of swelling of her face, hands, legs, and feet

An 84-year-old woman who resides in an assisted living facility

resistance, pressure, flow & cardiac and vascular function curves

Cardiac output equations

Pathologystudent.com - A simple summary of glomerulonephritis

Medbullets.com: Peptic Ulcer Disease

Pathlologystudent.com - Four things that make helicobacter pylori particularly nasty

Osmosis.org - Von Hippel Lindau disease

Osmosis.org - Decreased fetal movement revealed an amniotic fluid volume that was lower than expected for gestational age

Osmosis.org - An 86-year-old woman presents with elevated serum creatinine

Osmosis.org - A 65-year old man with shortness of breath on exertion, pitting edema and crackles at the lung bases

Osmosis.org - A 62-year-old woman has extreme weakness, stage 4 in renal disease, and it has been 6 days since her last dialysis

Osmosis.org - A 55-year-old man comes to the office because of feeling thirsty and frequent urination for 1 week

Osmosis.org - A 28-year-old woman comes to the office because of blood in her urine

Osmosis.org - A 55-year-old man who has smoked for the past 35 years is experiencing seizures

medbullets.com: lower GI bleed

medbullets.com: upper GI bleed

medbullets.com: crohn disease

medbullets.com: Irritable bowel syndrome

medbullets.com: chronic pancreatitis

Medbullets.com: acute pancreatitis

Reading First Aid: ejection fraction

Reading First Aid: what is the calculation for stroke volume?

Reading First Aid: myocardial oxygen demand

Reading First Aid: afterload

Reading First Aid: preload

Reading First Aid: heart muscle contractility

Reading First Aid: stroke volume SV CAP

Reading First Aid: coronary blood supply

Reading First Aid: Basic anatomy of the heart and the pericardium

Reading First Aid: fetal post natal derivatives

Reading First Aid: fetal circulation

Reading First Aid: outflow tract formation and valve development

Reading First Aid: Septation of the chambers

Reading First Aid: cardiac looping

Reading First Aid: heart embryology

How does the heart deal with increased ventricular wall stress?

Severe mitral regurgitation

hydralazine, pricainamide, isoniazid

What happens when you’re older and you have difficulty controlling hypertension?

Granulomatous inflammation of the large arteries

Try to remember the common causes of pneumonia by separating them into age groups and special groups

Bugs that cause diarrhea: bloody diarrhea and watery diarrhea

A nine month old girl has had two seizures in the past month. She was born at home and received no state mandated newborn screening

A 26-year-old man who is HIV-positive has a CD4 T-lymphocyte count of 250

A 25 year old woman comes to the physician because of a 10 year history of frequent occurrences of fever blisters

A six-year-old boy with glioblastoma has a recurrence of the tumor despite aggressive treatment

A 37 year-old woman comes to the physician because of a two month history of pain with movement of her hands and feet

A 15-year-old girl is brought to the physician because of a three-week history of excessive thirst and voiding excessive amounts of urine

A 46-year-old man comes to the physician because of a two week history of intermittent dizziness and difficulty standing up

A 10-year-old boy is brought to the emergency department because of vomiting for six hours. He has had excessive thirst and excretion of large amounts of urine for three weeks.

Hey 60 year old man has a five day history of productive cough and shortness of breath with exertion

A previously healthy 36 year old man comes to the emergency department 12 hours after the sudden onset of increasingly severe abdominal pain

The 24-year-old woman who breast-feeds her infant develops a warm painful mass and erythema of the overlying skin in the upper outer quadrant of the right breast

A 47-year-old man comes to the physician because of a four day history of pain in his left that began when he tripped over a curb

A 50-year-old woman with a history of ovarian cancer comes to the physician’s office because of swelling in her right leg for the past month

A 25-year-old man is brought to the emergency department because of a one-week history of fever and cough productive of purulent sputum

A 28-year-old who man had rheumatic fever as a child comes to the physician’s office because of fatigue and dyspnea for the past four months

A 30 year-old man is brought to the emergency department 30 minutes after being stung by several wasps

A full-term two week old male newborn has cyanosis

A 45-year-old man has a left ventricular ejection fraction of 25% with diffuse hypokinesis

A healthy 19-year-old man receives a tetanus immunization booster prior to induction into the US Marines

An eight-year-old boy needs to be coaxed to go to school and while there often complains of severe headaches or stomach pain

A 23-year-old man who is a graduate student comes to the physician because of a three month history of anxiety

A 37 year-old man with pancreatic cancer is brought to the ER because of fever and muscle aches for four days

An 18-year-old woman has gastroenteritis with nausea and vomiting and is able to ingest only small amounts of water

A 70-year-old man is brought to the emergency department by his wife because of fever and shortness of breath for two days

A two week old female newborn delivered at term is brought to the physician by her mother because of an increasingly severe diaper rash since birth

A 76-year-old man comes to the emergency department because of a 12 hour history of fever and left lower quadrant abdominal pain

A six-year-old boy is brought to the physician by his parents because of a three day history of fever, headache, and cough productive of a green, foul smelling discharge that also exits from his nose

A 68-year-old woman has the sudden onset of weakness in her right arm and leg

A 15-year-old girl is brought to the physician by her mother because of an eight month history of fatigue

An 18-year-old female athlete reports easy fatiguability and weakness

A previously healthy 32-year-old woman who works as a nurse comes to the emergency department because of a three-week history of episodes of dizziness, nausea, and profuse sweating that resolve with eating

Hey 74-year-old man comes to the physician for a follow-up examination. He has a three month history of severe pain and swelling of the metacarpophalangeal joints, wrists elbows and knees

Hospital discharge of a 75-year-old man is delayed due to unavailability of a bed in a nursing home

A 24-year-old primigravid women at 28 weeks gestation has had nagging headaches a puffy looking face and swollen legs for the past week

A five-year-old girl is brought to the emergency department because of fever and severe abdominal pain

A full term female newborn is examined shortly after birth

A 43-year-old woman comes to the physician because he has not had a menstrual period for three months

A 26-year-old woman is brought to the ER three hours after ingesting approximately 50 tablets of aspirin in a suicide attempt

A 76-year-old man with a history of prostatic hypertrophy has the recent onset of increased difficulty urinating

A comatose 35-year-old man is admitted to the hospital after being involved in a motorcycle collision

A 73-year-old woman comes to the physician because of a two month history of diffuse weakness and tingling of her arms and legs

A 35-year-old man who works at a facility processing highly radioactive substances accidentally receives a high whole body dose of ionizing radiation

A three month old male infant is brought to the physician because of recurrent viral infections and rashes over his trunk

A 50-year-old man has had gradually progressive weakness of the hands during the past year

A 45-year-old woman has a six month history of progressive shortness of breath on exertion

An otherwise healthy 26-year-old woman has had petechiae on her legs during the last 24 hours

A 30-year-old woman whose mother and grandmother have died of carcinoma of the breast refuses to have monography

Warfarin is administered to a 56-year-old man pulling placement of a prosthetic cardiac valve

A 10 month old girl is brought to the physician because of a two day history of diarrhea

A 32 year-old man with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma comes to the physician six days after finishing the initial chemotherapy regimen

A 20-year-old woman comes to the physician because of a five year history of increasingly severe unilateral throbbing headaches

A 40 year old man with a 20 year history of alcohol abuse is brought to the hospital by his friends because he was difficult to arouse

A 26-year-old man with HIV infection comes to the doctor for a follow up examination

A 58-year-old woman comes to the physician because of intermittent vaginal bleeding during the past three months

A 17-year-old boy comes to the ER because of severe thirst, weakness and weight loss after a trip to Thailand

A two-year-old boy is brought to the emergency department because of shortness of breath and left sided abdominal pain for three hours

A four-year-old boy with delayed motor development and choreoathetosis

A 37-year-old man comes to the physician because of a six month history of chest pain that occurs when he swallows food

A five month old girl has bilateral retinoblastoma. One of the arms of chromosome 13 appears to be cut off or shortened

832-year-old woman with schizophrenia is brought to the physician because of rapid heartbeats, sweating, muscle rigidity and confusion for one day

A 25-year-old woman is brought to the emergency department one hour after she fainted

A 30 year-old woman has anxiety about episodes of abdominal pain that have alternated with diarrhea and constipation over the past year

Vascular control is studied in an intact hind extremity of an anesthetized experimental animal

A 72-year-old man comes to the physician because of sharp pain of his right thorax for three days and a rash and a band like distribution over his right chest for one day

Four month old boy is brought to the emergency department 30 minutes after becoming unresponsive

A 12-year-old boy is brought to the physician by his father because of redness and swelling of his left foot for 24 hours

What is the best way to sterilize a bedpan infected with clostridium difficile?

A 55-year-old man who has alcoholic cirrhosis is brought to the emergency department

Three weeks after traveling to California to study desert flowers, a 32 year old man develops fever, chest pain and sore muscles

A 42-year-old woman with type two diabetes mellitus presents with a 2 cm ulcer on the cervix.

A 21-year-old man is brought to the ER by friends after he drank wood alcohol

Group B streptococcus and sepsis

Abnormality of the mamillary bodies

Xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis

Volume loss and ADH (vasopressin)

If you get cluster headaches, you should be aware of these drugs!

Paclitaxel is used to fight cancer by disrupting mitosis.

Reed-Sternberg cells have an 'owl's eye appearance'.

Main features of down stndrome (trisomy 21)

Craniopharyngiomas: solid, cystic & calcified

How are DPP-4 inhibitors (gliptins) used for DM 2?

When a mother has gestational diabetes, her condition can affect her baby.

Why would a young child not be able to break down fatty acids during a long period of fasting?

When a patient presents to you with pain and cramping during exercise but is able to exercise after rest and ingestion of sucrose this indicates McArdle disease.

If a patient is producing too much aldosterone and hydrogen ions are being sent out with potassium would the environment become more basic or more acidic?

If you have a problem with the activity of glucokinase, the beta cells of the pancreas will not be able to respond to glucose and produce insulin

Prolactinomas are treated with dopamine agonists - E.g., bromocriptine or cabergoline

Diabetic patients should receive selective beta blockers (selective beta 1 antagonists)

If you don’t get enough sun you might experience bone pain as a result of a problem in normal vitamin D metabolism

If a patient comes to you with hoarseness and difficulty breathing it could be a lingual thyroid.

MEN 1, 2A, 2B

What are chromaffin cells?

When the thyroid is operated on sometimes it results in hypoparathyroidism.

This is MED SCHOOL RADIO • Problems with fructose metabolism: Essential Fructosuria and Hereditary Fructose Intolerence

Growth hormone and Jak-Stat signaling pathway

If an HIV patient presents with unexplained re distribution of body fat, it could be due to the HAART drugs they are taking.

Is it OK to give bisphosphonates to patient with osteomalacia?

Hypophosphatemia

Clostridium difficile