Hello, med students.

My name is Zach Olson, and thank you for downloading this week's episode of the EM

Clerkship Podcast.

If you've been listening to this series so far, you are well, well on your way to developing

a comprehensive strategy to crushing your slow. Beyond be smart,

be nice, yada, yada, no, specific tips. And we're up to tips 21 through 25 this week.

And the general theme this week is probably the most, or at least tied for the most important

set of tips that you're going

to need to know for your clerkship. Probably tied with the stuff we'll cover next week.

This week, it's all about that all-important patient presentation. And you know this. The reason

this is so, so important is because your attendings or residents or

whoever you're paired with the train under, their primary impression of you, the bulk of the time

that they spend with you, will be built around your patient presentations. You have tremendous

opportunity to improve patient care by giving a clear, concise, thorough patient presentation

up front once on each case. Because attendings need to keep things moving and knowing what

the deal is before heading into a room, what red flags they anticipate that they're going to need

to ask about too. What issues are at play? It keeps things

moving. It organizes the case in their mind in a way that I think it just drastically improves

patient care. And it just makes you sound like you know your shit when you give a good presentation.

And the flip side of that is that presentations that are disorganized or boring and talking about stuff like, oh, you know, they're toenails or whatever.

Or heaven forbid, you didn't ask any of the important red flags or do any of the important exam stuff.

And you're just like scratching your ass in there for a half hour chatting about sports.

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