Hello, med students. My name is Zach Olson, and today I'm going to give you an introduction to my new podcast that I'm going to be launching.

This podcast is primarily intended for medical students. My goal is to help you crush your emergency medicine clerkship.

My goal is to help you get that coveted top one-third ranking on your slow.

And so in this short introduction episode, there's really only one thing that I want you to understand and walk away with.

If you're going to do well on your emergency medicine clerkship, you need to know a basic approach to what I like to call the other stuff.

Now let me kind of explain this. In my mind, there's two sort of cheap complaints. And actually,

if you go to the NBME website and you look up emergency medicine advanced clinical subject exam,

and you look at the breakdown of the

content of your shelf, there is what I like to call the core four, neuro, cardiac, pulmonary,

GI. Those are the core for systems and chief complaints relating to that are the core

for chief complaints.

But then there's all of the other stuff.

Everybody needs to know the core four to even pass the clerkship.

But if you truly want to distinguish yourself on your clerkship, you need to know this other stuff.

Now, what do I mean by the other stuff?

Kind of the things that I'm referring to are laceration repair and nosebleeds.

What to do when your patient is crashing, how to handle urinary retention.

This podcast is going to be perfect for these chief complaints.

And the reason is, is this podcast is going to be very short, five to ten minutes,

and that's all you really need to come up with

a basic approach to something like urinary retention, and that'll stick in the back of your brain,

and then you'll be able to use that in the future, should one of these patients present.

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