Hello, med students. My name is Zach Olson, and thank you for downloading this week's episode of the EM Clerkship Podcast.

Over the last few weeks, we've been working on a presentation-based approach to abdominal pain. Remember, abdominal pain is probably the single most high-yield area of study that you can do for your

emergency medicine clerkship.

Abdominal pain is the most common chief complaint, and abdominal pain is associated with

critical diagnoses that make up at least probably, you know, or at least could potentially

make up a quarter of your M4-C-Dem curriculum.

So it's super high-yield if you want to crush your slow. If you want to be a good

doctor, you just got to know this stuff. And this week, we're going to start powering through

this ginormous list of critical diagnoses. And so I'm going to say up front, this is going to, a few

disclaimers. This is going to miss some

pediatric stuff.

Clerkship directors of emergency medicine, they didn't put things like necrotizing

and teracolitis, malrotation with volvulus, interception.

That's not on this list.

And I think they're probably intending that you're learning about that during your

pediatrics clerkship.

There are really, so specifically there are 11 critical diagnoses listed in the CDM core

curriculum.

And then I'm going to expand on that and add a few big ones that I think you should know

that kind of fit in well during these episodes for the sake of being thorough because

they're still maybe not like life-threatening,

but they're still important and very common.

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