Welcome. My name is Divine. This is episode 571 of the Divine Intervention Podcasts.

And in today's podcast, we're going to be discussing a topic that I like to call,

quick and dirty emergency medicine for the USMLA exams. Quick and dirty emergency medicine for the USMLA exams.

My goal today is to discuss a series of scenarios and thought processes on questions that

are kind of difficult to prepare for.

Some of them are going to be classic things you're probably aware of, but I'm going to

discuss quite a number of things that you're like, what?

So these may not be things that, again, you see in any resource or you're like, how do

ever prepare for stuff like this?

But these are things that you absolutely need to know for your exams.

So we're going to talk through these things so they can feel very comfortable with them.

So this podcast is certainly attuned to anybody taking step 2CK or taking step

three or take a level 2 or level 3. But also this podcast, I will say, is certainly very helpful

for a person studying for a surgery shelf, an emergency medicine shelf, or an internal

medicine shelf. So let's jump right into it. So first thing I'm going to say today is that

if you have a trauma patient, you know, they were in a car accident or they fell from a height

or whatever, what is one thing you should always keep in mind on your exams? You should always

keep in mind the possibility of a C spine injury, a cervical

spine injury. And I'm telling you this, our friends at the NBMs, they sometimes write these

questions to be very nondescript. You don't think too much about them, but they are things that are

actually pretty high yield to know for your exams. So I'll just really encourage you. If you see an answer that talks about like assessing for a C spine injury, then you should

really be thinking of that answer.

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