All right, welcome to episode 637 of the Divine Intervention Podcasts.

And in today's podcast, I'm going to be discussing something I title USMLE mechanisms and patterns.

USMLE mechanisms and patterns.

This podcast is a little bit weird because it's not like a traditional podcast like what I make,

but there is going to be a lot of nuance that is discussed here that I think can be very helpful

to you as you are preparing for your exams.

Because the thing is a common problem many people fall into in preparing for the exams is they're like, okay, you know, divine, I've done everything.

You know, people have said, do 5,000 questions or whatever, and you'll be fine.

I've done all the questions.

I've learned the buzzwords.

I've learned the classic vignettes.

I've matured every onky deck known to mankind. And I'm still not doing well on my practice exams. I'm still not

doing well on my tests. Like what's going on? Right? Like I notice that I've done all these

things, but I'm still sitting down taking my exam and I feel like I'm

reading a foreign language. Like what's going on here? Like what in the world is going on here? Right.

So the goal of this podcast is to address why that may be the case for some people and also try

to give you some strategies for countering those problems because

the thing is the USMLA exams there are not exams that are rooted solely in you just knowing content

it's also rooted in you knowing certain patterns right certain patterns certain mechanisms

so that you can set yourself up for success as you take the exam right set yourself up for success as you take the exam, right?

Set yourself up for success as you take the exam, right?

And the very first thing I think I'm going to start off by saying is this.

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