Welcome to episode 544 of the Divine Intervention Podcast.

Into this podcast, I'm going to be addressing a topic that is actually kind of unusual,

but it's actually extremely useful for literally anybody that listens to this podcast.

If you're a met student, if you're a resident, if you're even an

attending, basically as long as you know that, man, there's some exam I'm going to be preparing

for in the future. This is a podcast you should listen to. And the topic again is, it's kind of

insightful. So what's my topic today? The topic is how to know if something is high yield.

How to know if something is high yield. This has been a big conundrum from many medical students,

many people taking tests, especially in medicine, and they wonder, man, how do I know what to focus on as I study for an exam?

I mean, obviously, the big exams I'm going to be worried about with many of these things are the USMILA exams.

So with this podcast, the USMLA exams, the Comlex exams, and I will also add in there the Internal Medicine Board exams and in training exams.

These principles certainly apply. So again, this podcast is a podcast. It's going to be a short

podcast, but it's going to be a podcast of principles. And in this podcast, I'm going to tell you

like, hey, as you're studying, as you're preparing for an exam, how do you know what things to focus on?

What makes something qualify as being high yield?

I'm going to try to finish all of it here, but if I can't, I'll just finish it up in the next podcast.

So, very first thing, what's the very first principle behind something that

is high yield? Is the fact that there is logic. Whenever there is logic behind something,

there's some kind of logical reasoning behind a particular concept. That is one thing you can

pound your fist to the table that yeah this thing is probably something

they're going to be testing on an exam what's the second principle to keep in mind second

principle to keep in mind is the principle of recurring themes recurring themes is there something

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