Hello, med students. My name is Zach Olson, and thank you for downloading this week's

episode of the EM Clerkship Podcast. We are finishing finally, finally, our journey through

our long summer of abdominal angst, where we've been covering what, what you know a very good med student differential

looks like for the most common complaint in emergency medicines this is really high yield stuff

it's just a big topic and it's all been based off of the cdem core curriculum with a few things

added in now obviously your presentation is going to sound

really rehearsed and bad if you're just reading off the list of the things that we've covered,

or if you just, like, you know, list this out on every case of abdominal pain that you have.

You're going to sound absolutely ridiculous if you do that because it's a long list.

That's not really the point. If I had wanted

you to like memorize the differential for abdominal pain, I would just do what surgeons do and I'd

just make you, you know, I'd come up with a mnemonic or something, come up with 20 things that

cause right lower quadrant abdominal pain, right? So it's not about that. The point is your

attendings are going to want to see you focus down on the types of differential

diagnoses that they think about.

So that's what I'm trying to teach you.

That's why this is kind of a big deal.

And so that's what we've been covering.

And if you can get to the point on your clerkship where your differential diagnosis

is like resonating with your attendings, where you're like one step ahead on your

differential beyond what your attending isings where you're like one step ahead on your differential

beyond what your attending is thinking that you're totally sad so that's why we've been

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