Hello and welcome to the physician assistant exam review podcast.

My name is Brian Wallace.

I'm the host and creator here at physician assistant exam review.

And today we're going to be covering the cranial nerves.

Okay, so my plan for this section on the blueprint, it just says cranial nerve policies, right?

It doesn't give a whole lot of detail.

And I was talking with some students who are asking me about how deep to go into things that are like that, that don't give you those more detailed bits of information as to what to cover. So, for example, we'll come to neoplasms,

right? That's a big topic. Neoplasms under neurology, how do you cover that? What do you do?

And unfortunately, some of these things I just don't have answers for, but I do have practices

and principles and what I think I would do if I were in your situation and how I would

handle them in my approach.

And that's how I bring this information to you. It's just the best possible way that I would

approach it with the information that I have. There's no clear cut answers. And I know everyone

loves clear cut answers, but we don't always have them, right? We have what to do with what

we have. Sometimes we're stuck with to do with what we have, right?

We have, sometimes we're stuck with two bad choices and we have to make the best of it.

Just like, do I go to bed and get some sleep or do I stay up and study later, right? Those are two not good choices if you're not done studying for your test tomorrow.

And you have to choose between those. I will always choose get some sleep because I think a well

functioning brain is worth more than the information I'm not going to retain after midnight as I'm

studying. That's just my opinion, how I would do it. Doesn't mean it would work that way for you.

You may be different. Maybe you work better at night than I do. But my point is you sometimes

you're stuck with the situation that you're in. And I find that a little bit with sections like cranial nerve policies, right?

...