Hello and welcome to season 2 episode 74 of the Physician Assistant Exam Review Podcast.

This week we're going to be continuing with hematology covering red blood cells.

This week we started off with an overview of hematology and I talked a little bit about the way that I like to study the way I can cover things.

I'm going to get to that a little bit at the end but you're going to really see it come out as we cover hematology and I start doing things a little bit more

the way that I think you will retain them better instead of the way that you're used to going over them.

And you'll see as we go how that's going to work.

One of the major keys here is that we're going to break this down and I went through the blueprint last time

but that's not exactly how I'm going to go through everything. I don't think that that's the, it lists the information really well

but I don't think it helps you to retain the information really well with the way they have it organized.

And that's one big key I'm just going to spend too long on this but a big key for your retention of the information

I talk a lot about active versus passive studying is to look at the information and see how it's organized

and it's not organized in a way that your brain is going to hold on to that you're going to be able to remember

then maybe reorganize it. In fact I think if you have the time I think reorganizing the data is one of the best ways

that you can study I think that's actually a almost a flaw of having a teacher present the information

as they've already organized it the way they think it's best and you need to get that of course

but there's a lot to be learned by organizing the information the way that you think it works best.

So anyway, today we're going to cover red blood cells in particular

we're going to cover some definitions we're going to just get started on the blueprint just a little bit

because there's a lot to cover here and I don't want to go too quickly I want you to let some of this stuff sink in

as you know I like to get the basics down really well and then add to them as we go.

So let's do that right now and we're going to begin with our priming questions.

What are the four polypeptide chains that make up hemoglobin?

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