A pocket-sized medical mnemonics flash card game for step 1 USMLE study created by board certified pediatrician Dr. David Griffin.
Work your way up to Attending Physician by answering questions to prove your medical knowledge. Or, study the cards like flash cards and test yourself! Each question card uses artwork, language mnemonics, and even dirty humor to provide a useful memory aids.
Examples:
Trying to remember what alkaptonuria is? "Picture a BLACK alpaca named AL."
The trinucleotide repeat for Fragile X? "See Giant Gonads" (CGG).
Classic exam findings of mumps? "The chipmunk RAN in a single file line to get the nuts."
Causes of Addison's? "The adrenal gland lost the M.A.T.C.H."
Includes the following topics:
Acute MI Treatment
Addison's Disease
Alkaptonuria
Angelman Syndrome
Berry Aneurysm
Congenital Rubella
Cri du Chat
Croup
Fragile X Syndrome
Goodpasture Syndrome
H. pylori
Hawthorne Effect
Histoplasmosis
HLA B-27
Hypercoagulability Syndromes
Klebsiella
Leukocyte Adhesions Deficiency
Listeria
Live Vaccines
Malassezia Furfur
Monoclonal Antibodies
Mumps
Noenatal Meningitis
Neurofibromatosis Type 2
Osler Weber Rendu
Parvovirus B19
Prader-Willi Syndrome
Rabies
RockyMountain Spotted Fever
Scarlet Fever
Thiamine (B1) Deficiency
Trichomonas
Trinucleotide Repeats
Turner Syndrome
Vit. K Dependent Clotting Factors
If you are someone who finds yourself re-reading the same page, highlighting every word on a page, or just need a break from the traditional studying dogma, then pick up a copy of MedGunner Board Prep: The Card Game!