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MD/DO
The Rosh Review blog provides study and exam prep tips, podcasts, and more for physicians, NPs, PAs, residents, and students. Below you’ll find a list of the blog posts that highlight MD/DO. Take a look and learn something new.
What Is the Most Likely Diagnosis for This Urologic Emergency?
Welcome to the next episode of The Reveal where we take you inside the mind of a test-taker to deconstruct and connect the dots of a board-style question so you can become a better student, transform how you learn, and excel not only on high-stakes exams, but also in your general medical knowledge. Let’s get read more…
Why Do Women Leave Medicine? My Look at Pregnancy During Residency
Surviving years of medical training requires a certain personality type—one with a willingness to skip the party, stay home and study, work on both Saturday and Sunday, and switch from night shifts to day shifts and then back to nights without a break in between. Yet, this commitment and lifestyle might be incompatible with starting read more…
Answer This Challenging Question About Lung Cancer & Hypercalcemia
Welcome to the next episode of The Reveal where we take you inside the mind of a test-taker to deconstruct and connect the dots of a board-style question so you can become a better student, transform how you learn, and excel not only on high-stakes exams, but also in your general medical knowledge. Let’s get read more…
The Best Resources I Used for the OB/GYN Shelf Exam
Crushing the OB/GYN shelf exam is equally about HOW you study as it is WHAT you study. The latter is far easier to communicate, but I hope to convey an overall ethos regarding the best approach to studying medicine. First, a note on how. Have you ever heard the expression “the best diet is the read more…
Can You Diagnose & Manage This Woman’s Lower Abdominal Pain?
Welcome to the next episode of The Reveal where we take you inside the mind of a test-taker to deconstruct and connect the dots of a board-style question so you can become a better student, transform how you learn, and excel not only on high-stakes exams, but also in your general medical knowledge. Let’s get read more…
Do You Know the Most Common Symptom of Hemorrhoids? Try This Question
Welcome to the next episode of The Reveal where we take you inside the mind of a test-taker to deconstruct and connect the dots of a board-style question so you can become a better student, transform how you learn, and excel not only on high-stakes exams, but also in your general medical knowledge. Let’s get read more…
How Much Do You Know About Diagnosing Urinary Tract Infections?
Welcome to the next episode of The Reveal where we take you inside the mind of a test-taker to deconstruct and connect the dots of a board-style question so you can become a better student, transform how you learn, and excel not only on high-stakes exams, but also in your general medical knowledge. Let’s get read more…
High-Yield Tips To Crush Your OB/GYN Shelf Exam
Obstetrics and Gynecology is an exciting, dynamic, and captivating field–especially when you’re hitting the wards for the first time. However, positioning yourself to score a top mark on the OB/GYN shelf exam is challenging because much of the content is specific and unique to this clerkship alone. When I was going through third year, I read more…
The 7 Steps I Followed When Changing Careers
When you think of Rosh Review, what do you imagine? Emergency Medicine…Physician Assistant…OB/GYN…Family Medicine…Internal Medicine…Marine Biology… Wait, what? Marine biology? When you look through the qualifications of the Rosh Review team, you may be surprised to find a marine biologist here. We even have an ornithologist and a botanist, too! So what are these ecologists read more…
What Is the First-Line Treatment for This Patient’s Eye Pain?
Welcome to the next episode of The Reveal where we take you inside the mind of a test-taker to deconstruct and connect the dots of a board-style question so you can become a better student, transform how you learn, and excel not only on high-stakes exams, but also in your general medical knowledge. Let’s get read more…
Announcing the First-Of-Its-Kind Journal Club Qbank
We all know that journal club is a core component of residency education. New ideas for conducting journal club have certainly added to greater participation by residents (we think), made journal club more enjoyable (we hope), and led to greater retention and implementation of new knowledge (we pray). Novel ideas for journal club are evident read more…
10 Ways to Prevent or Reduce the Effects of Burnout in Medicine
Talk of burnout among medical professionals is everywhere these days: in medical blogs, in peer-reviewed journal articles, in CME courses, in online courses, and in the news. We can’t avoid hearing about the high rates of burnout, depression, and suicide. I have experienced burnout twice in my career in medicine. The first time was in read more…
Boost Your Confidence with the Mock Psychiatry Shelf Exam
Introducing the Mock Psychiatry Shelf/Clerkship Exam, best suited for medical students who are looking to excel in their psychiatry clerkship. The Mock Psychiatry Shelf/Clerkship Exam is located in your Boost Box (on the home page of your desktop/laptop Rosh Review account). It contains 100 questions and comprehensive explanations to help you prepare for the NBME read more…
Announcing the New Mock OB/GYN Shelf/Clerkship Exam
Introducing the Mock OB/GYN Shelf/Clerkship Exam, best suited for medical students who want to excel in their OB/GYN clerkship. The Mock OB/GYN Shelf/Clerkship Exam is located in your Boost Box (on the home page of your desktop/laptop Rosh Review account). It contains 100 questions and comprehensive explanations to help you prepare for the NBME Obstetrics read more…
Announcing the New Mock Pediatrics Shelf/Clerkship Exam
Introducing the Mock Pediatrics Shelf/Clerkship Exam, best suited for medical students who are looking to excel in their pediatrics clerkship. The Mock Pediatrics Shelf/Clerkship Exam is located in your Boost Box (on the home page of your desktop/laptop Rosh Review account). It contains 100 questions and comprehensive explanations to help you prepare for the NBME read more…
Announcing the New Mock Internal Medicine Shelf/Clerkship Exam
Introducing the Mock Internal Medicine Shelf/Clerkship Exam, best suited for medical students who want to excel in their internal medicine clerkship. The Mock Internal Medicine Shelf/Clerkship Exam is located in your Boost Box (on the home page of your desktop/laptop Rosh Review account). It contains 100 questions and comprehensive explanations to help you prepare for read more…
Announcing the New Mock Family Medicine Shelf/Clerkship Exam
Introducing the Mock Family Medicine Shelf/Clerkship Exam, best suited for medical students who want to excel in their family medicine clerkship. The Mock Family Medicine Shelf/Clerkship Exam is located in your Boost Box (on the home page of your desktop/laptop Rosh Review account). It contains 100 questions and comprehensive explanations to help you prepare for read more…
How to Boost Your PRITE or Psychiatry Board Exam Score
This article covers two easy strategies to help increase your score for the Psychiatry Resident-In-Training Examination® (PRITE®) and increase your likelihood of passing the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN) Psychiatry Board Exam. These two techniques are useful, easy to implement, and only require a little of your time. The first strategy is to read more…
How an Internist Learned to Read ECGs Better Than a Cardiologist
At my medical school, everyone recommended taking the Clinical Electrocardiography elective in the fourth year. A kind man who had been interpreting ECGs for over 25 years taught the elective. We all had to read Rapid Interpretation of EKGs by Dale Dubin, and each day we spent hours going through real ECGs and trying to read more…
How I Successfully Made a Career Transition in Medicine
Life transitions always take some adjustment…even when they’re exciting changes. Moving, expanding your family, getting a new job—you’ll go through many revisions throughout your lifetime. Sometimes they’re planned and expected, and sometimes they’re not, but each transition requires you to get out of your comfort zone. One of my big life changes was a decision read more…