Step 1 Mnemonics

Step 1 mnemonics, hallmark findings and easy tricks!

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DiGeorge syndrome aka Velocardiofacial syndrome:

Catch 22

Congenital heart disease
Abnormal facies
Thymic aplasia
Cleft palate
Hypocalcemia/hypoparathyroidism

22q11 deletion

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7 common medical comorbidities of Down Syndrome:

CHECIAC

Congenital heart defects
Hypothyroidism
Epilepsy
Celiac
Increased blood cancer risk
Alzheimer’s
Constipation

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Ester local anesthetics have one “i” in the word

Amide local anesthetics have two “i”s or eyes (am-eyed)

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Gower's maneuver = Hallmark finding for Muscular Dystrophy

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Let’s get another thread going!

What is your favorite useful medical mnemonic?

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Neighbors Lend Me Extra Butter:

WBC differential from highest to lowest

Neighbors (Neutrophils)
Lend (Lymphocytes)
Me (Monocytes)
Extra (Eosinophils)
Butter (Basophils)

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Urate kidney stones are transl-U-cent

Only uric acid is radiolucent- luckily it starts with a U as in radiolUcent

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Muscles on the medial side of the lower leg going anterior to posterior:
Tom, Dick And a Very Nervous Harry:

Tibialis posterior
flexor Digitorum longus
Tibial Artery & Nerve
flexor Hallucis Longus

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Reactive arthritis:

Can’t see (conjunctivitis)
Can’t pee (urethritis)
Can’t bend my knee (arthritis)

Because I’SSYCC (Salmonella, Shigella, Yersinia, Camplyobacter, Chlamydia)

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Easy trick for Type A and Type B Chronic Gastritis

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Neurofibromatosis is caused by a mutation on what chromosome?

Chromosome 17:

N-e-u-r-o-f-i-b-r-o-m-a-t-o-s-i-s has 17 letters!

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Major pro-inflammatory cytokines and fever:

Tina Fey’s 16 Hot Dogs

Tina Fey= TNFalpha
16= IL-1 and IL-6
Hot = Fever & pro-inflammatory

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Electron Transport Chain inhibitors:

RACCO (from left to right)
Rotenone- Complex I
Antimycin A - Complex III
Cyanide, CO - Complex IV
Oligomycin - Complex V

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Which RNA type is the largest? The most abundant? The smallest?

mRNA is the largest: M for Massive

rRNA is the most abundant: R for Rampant

tRNA is the smallest: T for Tiny

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Trisomies compatible with life: 13, 18, 21

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mRNA Stop Codons:
UGA - U Go Away
UAA - U Are Away/Annoying
UAG - U Are Gone/Gross

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Sleep cycles: At night, BATS Drink Blood

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Mebendazole for treatment for Helminths

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Tyrosinemia type ONE is treated with nitisinONE
Tyrosinemia type TWO is a defect in TAT- Two for Tat (based on "tit for tat")

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in Cystinuria, you can't reabsorb COLA in the kidney:

Cystine
Ornithine
Lysine
Argnine

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