Top Highlights

• III. Study Smart: Mnemonics and Gunner Study Tips Even with incredible AR features at your disposal, you won’t be able to optimize exam performance unless you know how to study. Below are the four most important things one can do to study for the Family Medicine shelf under the time restraints imposed by clerkships. Understand the Organizing Princi...
• General Principles Leo Wang, Hao-Hua Wu, and Katherine Margo Introduction This chapter is meant to introduce some basic concepts in family medicine that will carry over into many other rotations. It is not meant to be exhaustive, but meant to highlight key points on the family medicine shelf that will be (1) tested and (2) relevant to future shelf ...
• Multisystem Infectious Disorders   Quick tips Definition of serum sickness syndrome: immune complex mediated hypersensitivity to nonhuman proteins.   Quick Tips Serum sickness syndrome vs. serum sickness-like reaction; former is triggered when patient is given antibody-containing blood from another living source; serum sickness-like reaction is tri...
• Lyme Disease (Borrelia burgdorferi) Buzz Words: Bilateral Bell’s palsy + no other signs of peripheral neuropathy → Lyme disease (be sure to differentiate from Guillain-Barre syndrome, which can present with bilateral Bell’s palsy associated with ascending paralysis) Hiking in tall grass + (late) EKG shows third-degree AV block + joint pain (arthrit...
• Q Fever (Coxiella burnetii) Buzz Words: Exposure to cattle or sheep + pneumonia + endocarditis (culture negative) + no rash → Q fever 2/2 C. burnetii Clinical Presentation: Most common chief complaint is pneumonia, but for the family medicine shelf, keep this on your radar in patients with culture negative endocarditis. Rarely tested. Be sure to kn...