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at www.gitfreed.a.i. Hello, med students. My name is Zach Olson, and today I'm going to give

you the approach to patient presentations so that you can demolish your

emergency medicine clerkship and get that coveted top one-third ranking in your slow.

In this episode, there's one thing that I really need you to understand.

Listen up.

Your patient presentations are the single most important skill that you need to develop as a medical student on this clerkship, if not every clerkship.

You just cannot get a top one-third ranking on your slow if you don't master some sort of organized, thorough, and focused presentation style.

It doesn't matter how compassionate you are, how smart you are, how amazingly excellent your

bedside manner is, because your attendings are busy and they're probably not going to notice

that.

That's just the truth.

That's just the way things work.

Now, there are a lot of different ways to do patient

presentations, but what you need to develop is an organized, thorough, and focused style. The version

I'm recommending is based on the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine's paper. This was a paper

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