home stretch

this is the home stretch peeps, good luck

Class IB Antiarrythmics

Mexican Likes Tacos

Mexiletine, Lidocaine, Tocainide

MOA of Rifampin

blocks mRNA synthesis
can't spell RifAMpiN without MRNA

grace's comlex score

10/800...beat that!

My Score

My score on the Comlex : 100/800

SCREWED !!!

cool site!

yay, go koreans! hee hee hee...

http://www.mednote.co.kr/Yellownote/Yellow%20IM.htm

cells cells more cells!

"Never Let Mom Eat Beans" and "60, 30, 6, 3, 1"

Neutrophils 60%
Lymphocytes 30%
Monocytes 6%
Eosinophils 3%
Basophils 1%

Kinds Of Tumors Leaping Primarily To Bone

K - Kidney
O - Ovarian
T - Testicular
L - Lung
P - Prostate
T - Thyroid
B - Breast

Takayasu's arteritis

melissa made this one

Takayasu's disease is also called pulseless disease, therefore I can't Tak'a ya's pulse

only DNA virus that replicates inside the cytoplasm

how funny...i was about to complain that nobody is posting anymore and i'm basically going to be posting for myself...but kevin posted...yay...

so anyhoo...

pox is a fox and it stays outside the city

poxvirus and city=nucleus

X-Linked Recessive Dz

Classic Hemophilia, Fabry, Duschenne-Muscular, Hunter, G6PD, Lesch-Nyhan

Classic Fable Duke vs Hunter is for 6yr old Little Ninos (nino = kids in spanish)

Still no OB

J.M.F. DO and J.C. MS GED should get married and have an incompetent wedding ceremony

drugs that cause gynecomastia

robert SHAPIRO, the A$$HOLE has man boobs!

spironolactones, -azoles (ant-fungals)

drugs that cause SLE

lupus pt's HPI is SLE

hydralazine > procainamide > INH

or...

SLE is not HIP

drugs that cause malignant hyperthermia

SUX to be in a HOT TUB

succinylcholine, halothane, tubocurarine

kevin u r getting too lazy...putting up links only? tsk tsk tsk...

site

interesting site for helping you remember what the bugs we study but never get a chance to see looks like
warning: contains graphic images

nastybugs

drug site

good site for drug info

http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/concern/concern.htm

heh heh

drugs that undergo zero-order elimination

PEA is round and looks like a zero so....

Phenytoin, Ethanol and Aspirin

christina and i both thought of it...great minds think alike... ;)

ID this

Guyon's Canal

Formed by Pisiform and Hamate

a GUY ON the road PISs off his MATE (hamate)

encapsulated bacteria

Men Hide in Strip Clubs

meningoccocus, haemophilus influenza, streptococcus, klebsiella

and these bacteria will have positive Quellung reactions...use your imagination why it would be...hee hee hee...

maaaan, i'm so clever... ^___^ j/k....

Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemias

Warm antibody autoimmune hemollytic anemia cause by IgG Ab react against RBC
Cold agglutinin dz, caused by IgM Ab react against I antigen on RBC

Got Mold ??
IgG = hot = (G)ot
IgM = cold = (M)old

colle's fracture

coldstone's is far (distal) but it's rad (radius)!

addendum:
colle's fx causes posterior displacement of the fragment
smith's fx causes anterior displacement of the fragment

hmm....i don't kno...for colle's fx think of posterior displacement cuz ice cream makes u gain weight and it goes straight to your butt...

tay sachs disease

courtesy of christina...

TAY is jewish(Ashkenazi)and likes cherries. He goes to H.S.(Hexosaminidase) and get's A's in Reading(A for hex-A and A.R. for Auto recessive)

acls

i failed acls....
then remediated....
then got 100% :-o
^_____^

CNS

any one wanna take a shot at what this is?

still no ob

I blame J.C. and J.M.F DO
bunch of fruits

board hy 2

Facultative intracellular bugs

Mycobacterium, Brucella, Salmonella, Listeria, Francisella, Yersinia, Legionella

MYCOusin BRUCEishibashi SALdom LISTEns to FRANCIS Yang's LEcture

Board HY

1) RNA naked viruses = Caliciviridae, Picornavirus, Reovirus Kelly Picks jon Leo and they get Naked

2) Norwalk virus = belongs to family of Caliciviridae Norwalk, CA



kevin

haha

things to make a note of so we wont forget 5 yrs down the road

grace syndrome = acute panic attack w/o agoraphobia, driven by ocd-type of perfectionism

dave moo, aka dmoo, aka doom, aka George Ishibashi, aka osama bin laden. Histrionic

seyed, aka amine, aka amini, aka Hank. Schizoid

Kelly = tim tim. Narcissitic personality d/o

Me, Kevin = normal :- )

1st post!

hello people...

kevin had a very nerdy idea and wanted us to post board relevant mnemonics and such...so we can all score 800 on the comlex! yippeee!!!!

anyhoo, after the boards r over, we can still post random med school happenings here...

aite! u guys all have to contribute or else!