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Monthly Archives: October 2017
Rapid Review: Worms and Cestodes
Reviewed February 2024 Sample Question: A 61-year-old man with hypertension is brought to the emergency department 20 minutes after having a generalized tonic–clonic seizure. He has had recurrent headaches over the past 6 months. He frequently travels throughout South America, where he swims in fresh water and eats street food, including meat and fish. He read more…
Podcast Ep 34: Seizures, Yersinia enterocolitica, & More
Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground. -Theodore Roosevelt Welcome back to Roshcast Episode 34! This week we continue our collaboration with the EM Clerkship podcast, focusing on appendicitis. Don’t forget that we launched another trauma ring tone contest last week, so listen up through episode 38 to win the read more…
How to Increase Your Pediatric Emergency Medicine Cert Exam Score by 10%
We already know the pass rate for the Pediatric Emergency Medicine Certification Exam hovers around 85%. This article is going to show two very easy ways to help increase your Pediatric Emergency Medicine Certification Exam score by 10%. If you are not familiar with the Pediatric Emergency Medicine Certification exam, here is a detailed outline of the topics that may appear on your exam.
While there is no magic pill or wand to significantly increase your exam score, these two techniques are the most useful, easy to implement and only requires a little of your time. This means anyone can take advantage of them. The first tactic is to use a system over a couple of months to identify what you don’t know. Sounds easy, right? The key is to go through a curriculum and identify what you don’t know – not what you are weak at – but what you don’t know. The second strategy is to take advantage of human error. Tests are written by humans, of course, and humans make errors. This article will show you 5 very easy techniques to narrow down an answer choice to either the correct answer or to a 50/50 probability – even without knowing anything about the topic. By combining these two strategies, you’ll be able to increase your Family Medicine certification score by 100 points – which could be the difference between passing or failing. Let’s get started.
How to Increase Your Emergency Nurse Practitioner Certification Exam Score
This article is going to show two very easy ways to help increase your Emergency Nurse Practitioner Certification Exam Score by 100 points. If you are not familiar with the ENP Certification exam, please refer to this comprehensive post titled “What You Need to Know to Receive Your Emergency Nurse Practitioner Certification (ENP-C).”
While there is no magic pill or wand to significantly increase your exam score, these two techniques are the most useful, easy to implement and only requires a little of your time. This means anyone can take advantage of them. The first tactic is to use a system over a couple of months to identify what you don’t know. Sounds easy, right? The key is to go through a curriculum and identify what you don’t know – not what you are weak at – but what you don’t know. The second strategy is to take advantage of human error. Tests are written by humans, of course, and humans make errors. This article will show you 5 very easy techniques to narrow down an answer choice to either the correct answer or to a 50/50 probability – even without knowing anything about the topic. By combining these two strategies, you’ll be able to increase your Family Medicine certification score by 100 points – which could be the difference between passing or failing. Let’s get started.
How to Increase Your Special Purpose Exam (SPEX) Score by 10%
This article covers two easy strategies to help increase your Special Purpose Exam (SPEX) score by 10%. If you are not familiar with the SPEX, here is everything you need to know. While there is no magic pill or wand that will increase your exam score, these two techniques are useful, easy to implement, and read more…
Rapid Review: Ectopic Pregnancy
Reviewed January 2024 Ectopic Pregnancy Sample question: A 24-year-old woman presents to the emergency department with abdominal pain. She states that the pain started acutely this morning and has been progressively worsening, causing her to vomit. The patient has a medical history of several sexually transmitted infections. She is currently sexually active with both men read more…
Core Content Presentation Winner
Rosh Review’s Core Content Contest Winners Since the first day of emergency medicine residency (back in 2004), I struggled to understand dysbarism. Until today. The winners of Rosh Review’s Core Content Contest are Drs. Robert Sanders and Dana Levin. Dr. Sanders is the medical director at NASAs Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory and Assistant Clinical Professor at read more…
Rapid Review: Polycythemia Vera
Reviewed February 2024 Polycythemia Vera Sample Question: A 57-year-old woman presents to the physician with progressive headaches and dizziness for the past 2 months. During this time, she has also noticed generalized itching when taking a bath. Additionally, she reports recent abdominal pain and a reddish discoloration of her urine. Her temperature is 37.6°C, heart read more…
Podcast Ep 33: Heart Block, Hypothermia, Bullous Myringitis, & More
People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do. -Rob Siltanen Welcome back to Roshcast Episode 33! This episode marks an incredible milestone for Roshcast. Exactly 365 days ago, Roshcast was born (Apgars 7 and 9). It is wild to look back and think about how much read more…
Rapid Review: Retinal Detachment
Reviewed February 2024 Retinal Detachment Sample question: A 67-year-old man presents to the emergency department with vision changes for the last few hours. He describes a painless decrease in the vision in his left eye. This was preceded by an increase in floaters in his vision. Fundoscopic exam reveals a floating, gray “cloud.” What is read more…
Rapid Review: Pterygium
Reviewed February 2024 Pterygium Sample question: A 62-year-old man presents with symptoms of left eye irritation for the past 3 days. He is a landscaper and is often outside. Physical examination reveals a fleshy, triangular growth from the medial canthus toward the cornea.. He says that the growth has been there for months, but it read more…
Rapid Review: Pyloric Stenosis
Reviewed March 2024 Pyloric Stenosis Sample question: A 3-week-old boy presents with two days of nonbilious projectile vomiting. Examination reveals a mass in the infant’s right upper quadrant. On a barium upper GI series report, the radiologist states a string sign is present. Which of the following is this infant at greatest risk of developing?