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DIP Ep 622: USMLE Step 2/3 Rapid Review Series 130

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Divine-Favour Anene

Medicine, Education, Science & Medicine, Higher Education

4.9929 Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast, I discuss a host of cardiac, renal, and heme pathologies that routinely show up on the USMLE exams. I also discuss some tips and pointers on the way the USMLEs love to write questions. Email me via the website if you would love to take my zoom classes this month. Audio Download

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0:00.0

Welcome. My name is Divine. This is episode 622 of the Divine Intervention Podcasts.

0:08.1

Into this podcast, we're going to be continuing the rapid review series for Step 2,

0:11.9

Ski, and step three. This is going to be series 130.

0:18.0

So one thing I want to say, for those that have been listening to my MSK series, I did make a podcast a while back on the knee.

0:26.5

So if you're trying to look for a good podcast on the knee, just literally go do a search on my website for knee.

0:33.4

There's a podcast I made a couple podcasts ago that really addresses knee pathologies.

0:37.7

All right.

0:38.3

So let's jump right into it.

0:39.7

So what if they give you a question about a patient?

0:41.6

And they tell you that this patient three weeks ago was started on pharmacotherapy for a seizure disorder.

0:48.9

And that now the patient over the last two days has been having having, has had like three rounds of seizures.

0:55.1

And then they give you some labs and you notice that the person's sodium is 124.

1:00.4

And then they ask you, which of the following condition, you know, which of the phone is the most likely theology of the patient's presentation?

1:09.1

Or what is the cause of the person's, you know, new seizures.

1:12.5

You know, they will put an answer choice that talks about, you know, worsening seizure disorder.

1:17.6

They will put an answer choice that talks about medication side effect.

1:20.9

I would really hope that you're picking the answer that talks about medication side effect, right?

1:25.0

So this person has SIDH from Carbamazepine, right? This person has

1:31.3

SIDH from Carbamazepine. So remember that carbamazepine is a drug that can be used to treat certain

1:36.6

seizure disorders. But beyond treating seizure disorders, you can also use carbamazepin as a drug to treat

1:42.4

Tick Delero, right? so if a person has trigemino

1:46.5

noralgia where they have like this fleeting lancinating pain on their face like in a basically

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