First Aid Clinical Pattern Recognition for the USMLE Step 1 2e

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First Aid Clinical Pattern Recognition for the USMLE Step 1 CK will help you master pattern recognition to excel on the exam and thrive throughout the medical school curriculum. You'll find the information you need to tie clinical facts together to recognize patterns and build illness scripts for various high-yield conditions.

Organized by symptom to reflect exactly what you'll see on test day, this groundbreaking guide provides overviews for more than 50 symptoms, discussing differential diagnosis and the principles that should inform your thinking about each symptom. Overviews are followed by Step 1-style vignettes for every potential diagnosis that may be included in the Step 1 exam. Then, each vignette is followed by the diagnosis―and competing diagnoses―along with explanations of why the patterns fit for the correct diagnosis.

Features include:

• Vignettes containing classic history/physical exam and lab/test findings that would be observed in a typical presentation of the disease
• Guiding principles provide important information (such as which diagnoses are common, which are rare, which are acute, which are chronic, etc.) to enhance the way you think about each symptom
• An overview of differential diagnoses presents a list of conditions with similar presentations
• Case vignettes highlight the typical presentation of a patient with the specified condition and include buzz words and findings that are likely to show up on the Step 1 exam