Good morning and welcome to the physician assistant exam review podcast companion episode.

My name is Brian Wallace, the host and creator here.

And what we've been doing on these companion episodes is pulling apart the information from the previous podcast so that it sticks better.

The goal is to make this information part of you, part of what you think about, just like your route to school is part of you,

just like making how you make dinner and how you leave the house and how you make your coffee,

all become part of you. They're not things you have to think about anymore. They're just what

you do. That's my goal in medicine for you. And we do that with active engagement and repetition.

So one of the things we're going to doing in these companion episodes is we're going to break down the information from

the previous episode into really, really tight, tiny bits. And the idea isn't that that's

everything you need to know. The idea is if you can, my strong belief is that if you can explain a disease with a crayon

to a five-year-old, then you're in good shape. And that's really what this episode is about,

or these episodes are about. It's about distilling it down to the least you could get across to

someone and have them understand it, or the least you need to remember in order to get a question right. Now, that's, again, not everything you know for sure. There's way

more. But if we can start at this tiny, tiny place and we can work to create this tiny detail,

that shows understanding. And it also is a lot less to hold on to and then you can rebuild from there.

We're also going to take some time to build up from there into some test questions and walk through

those and you'll see how that works. So I'm glad you're here. Thank you so much for coming.

These are going to be a lot of fun. You're going to get a lot out of them. If you get a lot out of

them, please share them with your classmates. Please them with a friend it may be the difference in someone who's really struggling and having a tough time getting by

and somebody who's doing just fine so i'd love it if you could share the show and the resources with

them that would be great all right let's jump right in last episode we talked about synchaphygib

hydrocephalus and comas so like i said we're going to start by just

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