This course will blow your mind, but it doesn’t have to break your brain. Listen in for some encouragement and helpful tips on how to thrive in the final course of your M1 year! Dr. Giffin’s brownies will sustain you. We promise. 

Resources:

1. Online 3D anatomy resource
2. Lippincott’s text

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Remember the Papez circuit? We don’t either. Regardless, the Neuroscience Clerkship takes the best of B.M.B., subtracts the brownies, and adds Dr. Quinlan. We think it’s a great combination! Plus, you get four fantastic weeks to perfect your neuro exam. Does anyone else think the UC Garnder Neuroscience Institute looks like a cerebrum?

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Long call. Short Call. Inpatient. Outpatient. The Internal Medicine Clerkship has a few moving parts, but we’ve got you covered. With insight from Class of 2020 icons, Emily and Meredith, we lay out a roadmap to Honors. We can’t exactly see your patients for you, but urine our thoughts for sure. 

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Vaccines and URIs and DREs, oh my! If you’re reading this, you’re likely heading into the four week Family Medicine Clerkship. Get down the vaccine schedule, learn ALL of the USPSTF recommendations, and basically everything else there is to know about the human body and this clerkship will be a cake.

Resources: 

1. AAFP questions: refer to official clerkship documents to get free access to the AAFP shelf exam prep questions
2. USMLE Vaccine Video
3. USPSTF A & B Recommendations (warning, always changing!)

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Welcome to a fan favorite — the Psychiatry Clerkship! In this episode, Robbie sits down with two future Psychiatrists, Andy and Margaret, to get the inside scoop on the clerkship. You’re gonna like your schedule on the Psych clerkship; we guarantee it. If you end up treating any patients from Kentucky during this six week block, you should ask them if they like Kentucky Freud Chicken.

Clean-up:

1. Andy mentioned that CCHMC College Hill has a partial hospitalization program; this service is actually offered at Cincinnati Children’s Green Township & the Lindner Center of Hope. 

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Kevin and classmate John Moon have a fireside chat about GER. The calm before the storm. This a large block, and as John Moon thoughtfully points out in this episode, it is a marathon — not a sprint. At this point in your career as a medical student, you should have a sense of what works for you (in regards to studying). With that in mind, John and I discussed important topics, how to score easy points, and how to balance GER and pre-dedicated Step 1 studying. 

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Zach sat down with two phenomenal M2s to chat about the MSK-I clerkship. The results? Unin-tendon-ly great. So grab your creatine powder and tune into a bonafide strong episode.

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Some call it O.B.G.Y.N, others prefer to say O.B-gine, and then there are those who say O.B.-gin. Regardless, it is all about women’s health and the miracle of childbirth. On this episode, Robbie sat down with Jacqi Riemersma & Mikail Siddiki to discuss the OBGYN clerkship. No matter when in third year you have your OBGYN clerkship, this episode is bound to be insightful.

Clean-up

The cervical exam: a) dilation (how open in cm), b) effacement (thinning of the cervix, expressed in percentage), c) station (presenting part in relation to the ischial spines, with zero station being at the level of the ischial spine).

"Uterolytic" was referring to tocolytic (medications to stop contractions).

Routine prenatal visits address many concerns and screenings in pregnancy. Some refer to these visits as "belly checks" but much more happens at the visit, even if the most routine check.

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So you know some biochem, huh? Well, Cellular Medicine is up next (AKA Fundamentals 2) and it’s nothing to sneeze at. Listen in for an excellent discussion with Robbie and guests Sierra and Kinsey as they talk about how to kick this course in the flagellum. Bacteria, viruses, and lymphocytes, oh my! 

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Cincinnati Children's, ever heard of it? Well, we have the pleasure of rotating there for our Peds Clerkship. It’s quite the treat! You may or may not gain the peds 10 (the food is great!), but you will definitely get a few URIs along the way. Listen to Robbie, and guest hosts Ellie and Katie talk about their experiences at CCHMC while on the Peds Clerkship.

Resources:

Vaccine Schedule: this link provides a stellar mnemonic for the pediatric vaccine schedule… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrlVbDmCVyw

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