Category: Allopathic Medicine (MD)
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USMLE® Step 1 Question of the Day: Scleroderma
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Each week, Osmosis shares a USMLE® Step 1-style practice question to test your knowledge of medical topics. Today’s case involves a 56-year-old woman with asthma and notable skin tightening over the face, hands, and forearms. Can you figure it out? A 56-year-old woman comes to her primary care physician for evaluation…
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OMM Question of the Day: Treatment of the Lymphatics
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Today’s OMM question involves a 36-year-old man with five days of rhinorrhea, sinus congestion, and feeling like he has fluid in his ears. Which of the following techniques should be avoided in this patient? A 36-year-old man presents to your clinic with five days of rhinorrhea, sinus congestion, and feeling…
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USMLE® Step 1 Question of the Day: Macrocytic Anemia
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Each week, Osmosis shares a USMLE® Step 1-style practice question to test your knowledge of medical topics. Today’s case involves a 25-year-old woman with symptoms of fatigue and reduced exercise tolerance. Can you figure out the cause? A 25-year-old woman presents to her outpatient provider for symptoms of fatigue and reduced…
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USMLE® Step 1 Question of the Day: Bacillary Angiomatosis
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Each week, Osmosis shares a USMLE® Step 1-style practice question to test your knowledge of medical topics. Today’s case involves a 30-year-old woman with HIV who has recently developed skin nodules. The woman also works in a pet store. Can you figure it out? A 30-year-old woman with HIV comes to the…
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OMM Question of the Day: Cervical Spine Counterstrain
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Today’s OMM question involves a 19-year-old woman with a left-sided neck pain. How would you position the patient to treat her tender point with counterstrain? A 19-year-old woman presents to the office with one week of a left-sided neck pain near her clavicle. She remembers straining her neck last week…
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What Motivated You to Study Medicine?
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It’s never easy to make a decision that will change your life completely. In today’s Osmosis blog, medical student and Osmosis Medical Education Fellow Desireé Franco shares her experience about the motivation you need in order to start this new way of life. In addition to everything you’ve heard, you…
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Tips for Transitioning to Third Year
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Clinic years of medical school are vastly different than the preclinical years and require new study habits, work styles, and a lot more people skills. This blog post will acknowledge the big shock that is third year, identify some tips and tricks, and remind students that they are not alone…
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USMLE® Step 1 Question of the Day: Glioblastoma Multiforme
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Each week, Osmosis shares a USMLE® Step 1-style practice question to test your knowledge of medical topics. Today’s case involves a 60-year-old man with a seizure. The man dies two days later. Can you figure out the cause? A 60-year-old man is admitted to the emergency department due to a seizure.…
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Clinical Rotations: Expectations vs Reality
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Most pre-clinical students have a familiar yet foreign idea of how a hospital works. In this blog, Kieren talks through what he expected going into a hospital for the first time and how this matched with what actually happened during his first week. Introduction The ideas and expectations of what…
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USMLE® Step 1 Question of the Day: Migraine Headaches
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Each week, Osmosis shares a USMLE® Step 1-style practice question to test your knowledge of medical topics. Today’s case involves a 25-year-old woman with a severe headache. Can you figure it out? A 25-year-old woman comes to the emergency department because of a severe headache that began four hours ago.…
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OMM Question of the Day: Cervical Muscle Energy – Flexed Dysfunction
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Today’s OMM question involves a 26-year-old man with a difficulty turning his head. How would you treat his cervical spine somatic dysfunction with osteopathic manipulation? A 26-year-old man presents to your osteopathic manipulation clinic due to difficulty turning his head for the past six days. He spent most of last…
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USMLE® Step 1 Question of the Day: A Syncopal Event
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Each week, Osmosis shares a USMLE® Step 1-style practice question to test your knowledge of medical topics. Today’s case involves a 65-year-old man after a syncopal event at home. Can you figure out the diagnosis? A 65-year-old man presents to the emergency department after a syncopal event at home. He…
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A Discussion Around LGBTQ+ health
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When the topic of specific medical care for LGBTQ+ patients comes up, people often ask “Why?”. Why is there a need for this specification? Why are there special clinics for LGBTQ+ people in Tel Aviv, New York, and Berlin? These are all cities with a very high population of people…
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USMLE® Step 2 Question of the Day: Causes of Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeds
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A middle-aged man with cirrhosis and vomiting blood requires urgent care. Discover what the critical first step you need to take in his medical care.
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4 Ways You Can Start Improving Physician-Patient Communication Right Now
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Communication is the most important thing in any relationship, and with our patients, it is no exception. Here you will find four tips to improve communication with your patient. During four years, I was a caregiver for a family member with a chronic illness. At that time I met some…
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USMLE® Step 1 Question of the Day: Suboccipital Fat Pad
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Each week, Osmosis shares a USMLE® Step 1-style practice question to test your knowledge of medical topics. Today’s case involves a 40-year-old man with hyperpigmentation of the skin. Can you figure it out? A 40-year-old man comes to his outpatient provider with a concern about skin changes that began 4…
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OMM Question of the Day: Upper Extremity – HVLA (Radial Head)
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Explore today’s OMM question focusing on elbow somatic dysfunction and learn the correct treatment technique for a patient with a radial head issue.
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USMLE® Step 1 Question of the Day: Oral Mucosal Pallor
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Each week, Osmosis shares a USMLE® Step 1-style practice question to test your knowledge of medical topics. Today’s case involves a 68-year-old man. Polymerase chain reaction testing reveals a mutation in a gene encoding for a non-receptor tyrosine kinase. Can you figure it out? A 68-year-old male comes to his…
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USMLE® Step 2 Question of the Day: Gallstones
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We’re back with a USMLE® Step 2 CK Question of the Day! Today’s case involves a 22-year-old man with abdominal pain. Which of the following is the most likely cause of this patient’s condition? A 22-year-old man comes to the clinic complaining of a 6-week history of intermittent abdominal pain. The patient…
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Seeking Balance and Finding Your Ikigai in Medical School
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Where do you turn when you’re questioning whether you’re on the right path or not? For one med student—Osmosis Medical Education Fellow Anam Sayed—the Japanese concept, ikigai, helped her find her way. If you find yourself in a similar situation, read on to see if ikigai can be as powerful a force for…
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USMLE® Step 1 Question of the Day: Urinary Incontinence
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Each week, Osmosis shares a USMLE® Step 1-style practice question to test your knowledge of medical topics. Today’s case involves a 55 year-old female patient with urinary incontinence. Her past medical history is notable for type 2 diabetes mellitus and hypertension. Can you figure it out? A 55 year-old female…
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OMM Question of the Day: Lymphatics
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Today’s OMM question involves a 36-year-old man with sinus congestion and feeling like he has fluid in his ears. The patient has bilateral temporomandibular joint dysfunction. Which technique should be avoided in this patient? A 36-year-old man presents to your clinic with five days of rhinorrhea, sinus congestion and feeling like…
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USMLE® Step 1 Question of the Day: Dyspnea on Exertion
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A 70-year-old woman comes to the emergency department due to a three week history of worsening fatigue, dyspnea on exertion, and lower extremity swelling. Her past medical history is significant for hypertension and hyperlipidemia, but notes no recent travel, sick contacts, or illnesses. She recalls one episode of nausea and diaphoresis while she…
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Dealing With Depression in Medical School
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Medical school is about learning to care for others in the best way possible. But what happens when it becomes difficult to care for yourself? Today on the blog, third-year medical student Mónica Contreras Leal shares her experience with depression during medical school: how she learned to cope and eventually,…
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Living With Hypochondria: A Patient Experience
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Hypochondria or hypochondriasis is a psychological disorder where someone develops chronic stress about an imagined illness. It often manifests after someone has lost a loved one to serious illness, and while it’s often dismissed and stigmatized, the condition can cause real harm by putting excess stress on the body. Today…
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USMLE® Step 2 CK Question of the Day: Unilateral Headache With Photophobia
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We’re back with a USMLE® Step 2 CK Question of the Day! Today’s case involves a young woman who is experiencing unilateral headaches with photophobia. Can you prescribe a medication to help her feel better? A 27-year-old woman presents to her primary care physician for evaluation of recurrent headache over…
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USMLE® Step 1 Question of the Day: Zenker’s Diverticulum
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Each week, Osmosis shares a USMLE® Step 1-style practice question to test your knowledge of medical topics. Today’s case involves an 80-year-old man. He was hospitalized two weeks ago for pneumonia and now reports difficulty swallowing and regurgitation of undigested food particles. Can you figure out the diagnosis and which…
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USMLE® Step 1 Question of the Day: Factor V Leiden
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Each week, Osmosis shares a USMLE® Step 1-style practice question to test your knowledge of medical topics. Today’s case involves a 25-year-old woman with breathing difficulties and chest pain. Labs show an elevated d-dimer. Purified protein C is added to the patient’s plasma and causes no change in the lab…
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USMLE® Step 1 Question of the Day: Bilateral Pitting Ankle Edema
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Each week, Osmosis shares a USMLE® Step 1-style practice question to test your knowledge of medical topics. Today’s case involves a 38-year-old woman with pain in the center of her chest. The pain is slightly better when she sits up straight. Physical examination shows conjunctival pallor and bilateral pitting ankle…
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How to Take Notes Faster in Medical School
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Taking notes in medical school can be messy and time-consuming. With so much material to write down and memorize, having a strategy for effective note-taking can make a difference in your performance in medical school.