The 3 best mnemonics- I used these all the time in residency and on inpatient rotations. MUDPILES, C BIG K Drop, AEIOU. What are YOUR favorite mnemonics??
I’m an ICU nurse at a large teaching hospital and your content has helped me come alongside and support the med students and residents as they’re learning. Thank you!
Good Lord, where to being!!! There were so many mnemonics to study for the Steps 1) The Cranial Nerve Mnemonic: Oh Oh Oh To Touch And Feel Very Good Valet Ah Heaven (the rated G version) 2) The 4 Fs of Gallstones: Female, Fat, Forty, Fertile (figured I had to bring up a GI related one) 3) HLA B27 diseases spell PAIR: Psoriatic Arthritis, IBD, Reactive Arthritis 4) Speaking of Reactive Arthritis there's the "Can't See, Can't Pee, Can't Climb A Tree" 5) The 4 Cs of Measles: Cough, Coryza, Conjunctivitis, C(K)oplik spots. oh and an honorable mention: Common causes of Post Op Fever: Wind, Water, Wound, Walking, Wonder Drug the list can go on and on!!!!
For cranial nerves I learned it as Oh Oh Oh To Taste And Feel Very Green Vegetables Ah Ha! Lol. And I learned the 5 F’s for gallstones them being, Female, Fertile, Full-Figured, Forty/Fifty, and Fair. And the rule of 2’s for meckels diverticulum being 2% of children, 2 feet from the ileocecal valve, contains 2 types of ectopic mucosa (gastric and pancreatic), and that it usually occurs around the age of 2!
Oh and also Sjögren is can't see (corneoconjunctival xerosis), can't spit (xerostomia), can't climb shit (arthritis) =D Phaeo has the rule of 10s going for it as well.
Got to use measles mnemonic this past summer. I don’t think I’ll ever forget what that looks like. My first thought was “this is viral and not good”. The red eyes jarred my memory. Poor pt looked absolutely miserable - initial temporal scan temp of 107F (not a fan of any touch thermo btw). I think actual temp was 105.2.
In first aid training, we learnt FISH-SHAPED for the causes of unconsciousness (ah, now I have to remember what the letters all stood for, hold on a minute...) Fainting; Imbalance of heat; Shock; Head injury; Stroke; Heart Attack; Asphyxia; Poisoning; Epilepsy ; Diabetes.
My favorite: NAVY - it’s the mnemonic for the anatomical order, from outside-in, of the femoral Nerve, Artery, Vein, and the Y is for the crotch (note the shape of the Y).
Please share (many) more! My PA director seriously said "I never needed mnemonics in school, just learn the material, guys!" I need mnemonics........bad.
The anatomy mneumonic for rememeber the cranial nerves. Have not in my life used them since anatomy but damn is that a fun one. Also the pancreatitis mneumonic sticks with me for some reason. GETSMASHED
Now that I moved to ER, this is SO helpful. Our docs and practitioners are great about providing a medical rational when there is any confusion from us nurses. On the flip side, they appreciate when we can check back or fill in the blank for an order based off of their way of thinking! Thanks for this 😄
When my first husband was in medical school I remember “to Zanzibar By Motor Car” to recall the facial nerves: T: temporal Z: zygomatic B: buccal M: mandibular C: cervical
On the Neuro floor one of the nurses taught me a poem to remember the cranial nerves: 'On Old Olympus' Towering Top, A Finn and German Viewed Some Hops' Optic nerve, oculomotor nerve, olfactory nerve, trochlear nerve, trigeminal nerve, abducens, facial nerve, auditory nerve, glossopharyngeal nerve, vagus nerve, sensory (accessory) nerve, hypoglossal nerve.
Wow! Mnemonics, I can't even pronounce most of the terms you just rattled off. I'm amazed by your intelligence. Also a little jealous. Thank you for the videos. Love them!!!
It does sound impressive. My mother loves listening to my brother (Rural GP/ER/OBGYN Dr) and I (midwife) talk shop. She once asked how we remembered everything, my brother explained that it’s just like learning a new language.
Neurosurgery resident here. My top 3 most commonly used are: AD-DAVID (admission/transfer/post op orders): admission, diagnosis, diet, activity, vitals, investigations, drugs. DIMS (causes of acute neurological change): drugs, infection, metabolic, structural VITAMIN C + D (when thinking of broad differential for causes of almost any problem): vascular, inflammatory, traumatic, autoimmune, metabolic, infectious, neoplastic, congenital, degenerative
My favourites are OLDCARTS to take pain history and pretty much any symptoms; ABCDE for assessment of unstable, critical patients and resus; and 4Hs and 4Ts for causes of reversible cardiac arrest. Honourable mention for Delirium.
Not a doc or even a nurse, but I do like to learn this stuff from my mum who is a nurse. The one I remember best is FAST - Facial drooping, Arm weakness, Slurred speech, and Time for a stroke. I thought FACE was one too, but can't remember it and a search isn't telling me either so meh.
Not a medical professional, but the things I remember: Internal bleeding reminder: Blood on the floor, four more (not sure where I heard this as again do not work in medicine) Stroke: FAST (face, arms, speech, time) (Also: Time lost is brain lost) Heart attack: HEPPP (hot, exhausted, pain, pale, puke) (Heard this from Rosie O'Donnell who did a stand up about her heart attack and created this mnemonic and turned it into a rap based on her symptoms, her primary symptom being exhaustion)
Really fun to read other people's examples below. There's a YT general surgery resident (now a practitioner) who had spectacular examples that he posted.
I am not a doc, but my favorite medical mnemonic is “Some say marry money but my brother says big brains matter more” for which cranial nerves are sensory or motor.
We used the 5H’s 5T’s for causes of PEA. Types of fractures=GOT SIC-greenstick, oblique, transverse, spiral, impacted, comminuted. I always had a hard time remembering OS & OD, so I just remembered “If something is ‘sinister’(left=OS-oculus sinister), it’s not ‘right’(right=OD-oculus dexter).” Of course had the ABCDE, now ABCDEFG. In ER, one of the ER docs told me to remember “fingers, toes, hands, nose, & someplace else (penis)”-places NOT to use lidocaine with epinephrine. Always helpful when having to pull lido. for suture set-ups! “Beta Beat Big” for effects of beta drugs-increase heart rate & dilate the vessels.
I'm a nurse and my favorite from school was VEAL CHOP for reading FHR strips V(ariable decels) - C(ord compression) E(arly decels) - H(ead compression A(accelerations) - O(K) L(ate decels) - P(lacental insufficiency)
Hey Dr. Schmidt….. In critical care nursing one of our educators told us about DICS as a mnemonic ….Hyperkalemia management in acute care …. Dextrose insulin calcium gluconate and sodium Chloride in that order …😜😜😜😜
2nd year med student here - they taught us GOLDMARK last year for AGMA so unfortunately I will probably never learn MUDPILES... I like ABCDE for melanoma. :)
Not really a mnemonic, but also from EMCrit + Cliff Reid, "four plus the floor" = where the massive hemorrhage went: 1) long bones, 2) thorax, 3)abdominal, 4)pelvic, or all over the floor.
Two faves from veterinary critical care: SLUD! Salivation, lacrimation, urination, defecation = fluid overload symptoms DOPES (courtesy of EmCrit!) for what might be acutely wrong when your ventilated patient is suddenly crumping after seemingly to be relatively stabilized. Mind, it is what you check AFTER you disconnect them from the circuit: Displacement [check the tube is still where it ought to be]; Obstruction/open [shove the suction cath in there and either pull out the clog or at least move it out of the way]; Pneumothorax [tension pneumothorax]; Equipment [did the vent settings go feral or something similar?]; and Stacking [stacked breaths in obstructive airway dz patients is baaaaad news]
Kayexalate has had some studies recently (past 5 years) that call it's efficacy into question. The resin has shown to be 1. Not selective for K+ and will pull any +1 cation, of which Na is far more abundant and so will take up much of the binding sites. 2. It's always mixed with sorbitol (to "prevent the resin from coalescing" and causing constipation) which, like any osmotic laxative will draw K+ from the intestinal lining. You're better off with just the sorbitol, or any number of other, equal or better, osmotic laxitives, orally or PR.
So glad Im doing a residency in ortho and can forget all this internal medicine stuff. You guys are the best for enjoying it all, remembering it and helping us when we want to admit the patients to you after we fix the fracture.
Why are there so many #Ps mnemonics out there? like 7Ps for thyroid hormone, 5Ps for drugs causing acute interstitial nephritis and sxs of pheochromocytoma?
Lichen Planus has P's too if I'm not mistaken (polygonal, purple plaques, etc). Also there P's for Acute Intermittent Porphyria (port wine urine, polyneuropathy, psych, and 2 other ones I can't remember). Aren't there also P's for AKI? Penicillin, pain meds. You're right we do love our P's
I'm gonna take a quasi educated but totally shot in the dark guess and say it may have something to do with "p" and "ph" sounds coming from two different Greek alphabet letters. Like since those both came to involve our letter P, it now gets an advantage over other consonants in terms of how often it shows up in all our words influenced by those language roots, and Greek of course makes up a lot of medical terminology. Maybe, idk 🤷♂️ Just pulled that conjecture out of my ass pretty much lol but it makes sense to me that it could at least be a contributing factor! Plus P and F are very clear and uncomplicated consonants for any speaking human to make, so that probably helps those sounds come up more commonly as well.
I like to add BREATHE for causes of Dyspnea and 4-2-1 for dangerous causes of chest pain. They come in handy to a surgeon when dealing with internal medicine probleme
Propylene glycol can indeed cause a high anion gap, though, especially when a patient is receiving multiple infusions as it is a preservative or something in those. This is widely reported, even when none of those infusions contain anything else that can widen the anion gap
It seems like we could automate prompting the doctor with these mnemonics and then let the Doctor decide. I wonder how IT might change the practice of medicine.
Also use that acronym in secondary survey for trauma: airway, breathing, circulation, disability, exposure/everything else, fluids, glucose. Sometimes DEFG is used in primary surgery as “don’t ever forget glucose”
FAST HUGS BID‘ by Vincent and Hatton is my favourite for ICU admitted patients: Feeding/fluids Analgesia Sedation Thromboprophylaxis Head up position Ulcer prophylaxis Glycemic control Spontaneous breathing trial Bowel care Indwelling catheter removal Deescalation of antibiotics
I don't usually, but for this one it's late and I'm tired so I did because I kept having to run back lol. We all have varying speeds at different times, I wobble all over the place with it on different channels for different uses of my brain. So point is, you're not alone!
Sometimes for sure! But I truly appreciate the speed of these videos! It is so much easier to stop one than to try to skip forward when someone drags everything out.
I don't know bout favourite but the most random and useless mnemonic I remember off the top of my head is for Klebsiella ABCDE ie aspiration pneumonia, lung and liver aBscess, Currant jelly sputum, Diabetics, Etoh I mean when and where am I going to need this info 😂
At the next family Thanksgiving dinner when an alcoholic relative spits up some currant jelly. You'll know it's not cranberry sauce but Klebsiella and you'll save the day.
I like the one about the wrist bones about shy people who want to have sex or something like that, but I can't remember the mnemonic, let alone the bones.
I've never liked remembering/imagining the carpals in that order for some reason, so for anyone who like me prefers to imagine them as two rows like you're reading top line then bottom line (dorsal view right wrist, so going from radial to ulnar and distal row then proximal row), the common one is Try To Catch Her She Looks Too Pretty and I like mine silly so I made up Torpid Tyrannosaurus Can't Help Sitting Low To Poop And yeah trapeziUM rhymes with THUMB so you can remember the order of the trapezium and trapezoid (triquetral is conveniently off on its own)
@@reddog6433 Also this is awesome, if I'd heard this one first I wouldn't have needed to imagine them in a different order to remember the actual visual/spatial correspondence to the words lol. Yours inherently communicates that. That's awesome, definitely stealing for myself and especially those I tutor
Re: terrifying training-Ron was training for the priesthood under a superior who seemed to relish humiliating seminarians. As Ron was saying mass the 1st time with all his mates in attendance, he raised the communion wafer and intoned “Taking the bread, He gave it to his disciples…” From across the chapel, his instructor roared “HE BROKE IT! He took the bread and BROKE it!” Determined never to endure this shame again, Ron practiced the ritual privately until he was certain it was etched into his mind. Still, when his turn came once again to prepare the Eucharist, he saw his superior and began to sweat. All went well until Ron raised the chalice and proclaimed “He raised the cup, BROKE IT, gave it to his disciples…”
I could never use mnemonics....It just felt like I was having to learn a bunch of extra esoteric things in addition to “drinking out of the fire hose” that we were already doing. Thankfully I’d worked for 10 years in hospital-labs, path labs, ER, phlebotomy....had 2 kids, put my ex through his masters, divorced him, and was working 20 hrs per week as a single Mom on top of med school. Of course I also ended up as Senate Secretary and sang in our choir, Osteopera-I think I was hypo-manic at the time!😂 I was only able to study when the kids were with their Dad every other weekend. Met my husband to be online in my 2nd year of med school and dropped the studying to 1 day every 2 weeks. 😉. It was worth it!
Can't see, can't pee, can't spit, can't shit to remember anticholinergic side effects. Also Praise The Lord for monitoring of amiodarone side effects (pulmonary, thyroid, liver)
As a pharmacist we learned "You have 1 heart and 2 lungs" to remember what Beta-1 vs Beta-2 blockers were for.
Thanks!!
I was an RT. We used that one too 😊
YES.
Holy crap that's genius
My problem with mnemonics is that there are so many of them, sometimes I dont remember for what they are suppose to help me remember 😂
Try being a military medic. 2 worlds of acronyms and mnemonics come crashing together.
No worries, there's a mnemonic for that.
@@Rac65 I'm sure there is. If not, stand by one......
Mneumonic for congenital adrenal hyperplasia
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Exactly
I’m an ICU nurse at a large teaching hospital and your content has helped me come alongside and support the med students and residents as they’re learning. Thank you!
So glad to hear that!
Says a lot about you!
Good Lord, where to being!!! There were so many mnemonics to study for the Steps
1) The Cranial Nerve Mnemonic: Oh Oh Oh To Touch And Feel Very Good Valet Ah Heaven (the rated G version)
2) The 4 Fs of Gallstones: Female, Fat, Forty, Fertile (figured I had to bring up a GI related one)
3) HLA B27 diseases spell PAIR: Psoriatic Arthritis, IBD, Reactive Arthritis
4) Speaking of Reactive Arthritis there's the "Can't See, Can't Pee, Can't Climb A Tree"
5) The 4 Cs of Measles: Cough, Coryza, Conjunctivitis, C(K)oplik spots.
oh and an honorable mention: Common causes of Post Op Fever: Wind, Water, Wound, Walking, Wonder Drug
the list can go on and on!!!!
For cranial nerves I learned it as Oh Oh Oh To Taste And Feel Very Green Vegetables Ah Ha! Lol. And I learned the 5 F’s for gallstones them being, Female, Fertile, Full-Figured, Forty/Fifty, and Fair. And the rule of 2’s for meckels diverticulum being 2% of children, 2 feet from the ileocecal valve, contains 2 types of ectopic mucosa (gastric and pancreatic), and that it usually occurs around the age of 2!
Oh and also Sjögren is can't see (corneoconjunctival xerosis), can't spit (xerostomia), can't climb shit (arthritis) =D
Phaeo has the rule of 10s going for it as well.
We learned Oh, oh oh to touch and feel a genuine virgin, ah heavenly:
For the cranial nerves. And of course ABC airway breathing chest compressions
What happened to “On Old Olympus’ Towering Tops, A Fin And German Viewed Some Hops”?!??!?
Got to use measles mnemonic this past summer. I don’t think I’ll ever forget what that looks like. My first thought was “this is viral and not good”. The red eyes jarred my memory. Poor pt looked absolutely miserable - initial temporal scan temp of 107F (not a fan of any touch thermo btw). I think actual temp was 105.2.
In first aid training, we learnt FISH-SHAPED for the causes of unconsciousness (ah, now I have to remember what the letters all stood for, hold on a minute...) Fainting; Imbalance of heat; Shock; Head injury; Stroke; Heart Attack; Asphyxia; Poisoning; Epilepsy ; Diabetes.
Damn that's good, thanks for sharing!
'oh my god, this patient is fish-shaped!'
@@poltive no, that patient is dead.
And not uncommonly among the elderly: Peripheral sympathetic dysfunction.
My favorite: NAVY - it’s the mnemonic for the anatomical order, from outside-in, of the femoral Nerve, Artery, Vein, and the Y is for the crotch (note the shape of the Y).
Mneumonic for congenital adrenal hyperplasia th-cam.com/video/svlzUcKjuhg/w-d-xo.html
VAN usually works for most areas from medial to lateral
Thanks!!
We learnt NAVL for femoral triangle - L for lymphatics
Nerve, artery, vein, empty space, ligament
Please share (many) more! My PA director seriously said "I never needed mnemonics in school, just learn the material, guys!"
I need mnemonics........bad.
This is awesome. I'm an RN who constantly wants to learn more about how we treat patients. Thanks
The anatomy mneumonic for rememeber the cranial nerves. Have not in my life used them since anatomy but damn is that a fun one.
Also the pancreatitis mneumonic sticks with me for some reason. GETSMASHED
Now that I moved to ER, this is SO helpful. Our docs and practitioners are great about providing a medical rational when there is any confusion from us nurses. On the flip side, they appreciate when we can check back or fill in the blank for an order based off of their way of thinking! Thanks for this 😄
When my first husband was in medical school I remember “to Zanzibar By Motor Car” to recall the facial nerves:
T: temporal
Z: zygomatic
B: buccal
M: mandibular
C: cervical
Thanks!!
Can you please do more of these mnemonics which are relevant from a residency/practical point of view. Stuff you regularly use.
On the Neuro floor one of the nurses taught me a poem to remember the cranial nerves: 'On Old Olympus' Towering Top, A Finn and German Viewed Some Hops'
Optic nerve, oculomotor nerve, olfactory nerve, trochlear nerve, trigeminal nerve, abducens, facial nerve, auditory nerve, glossopharyngeal nerve, vagus nerve, sensory (accessory) nerve, hypoglossal nerve.
I like this one better than the one about velvet
That’s the one we were taught. I could barely remember it!
....viewed A hop. Spinal accessory nerve. But your S works better.
@@wholeNwon That's the one I learned.
Wow! Mnemonics, I can't even pronounce most of the terms you just rattled off. I'm amazed by your intelligence. Also a little jealous. Thank you for the videos. Love them!!!
It does sound impressive. My mother loves listening to my brother (Rural GP/ER/OBGYN Dr) and I (midwife) talk shop. She once asked how we remembered everything, my brother explained that it’s just like learning a new language.
Neurosurgery resident here. My top 3 most commonly used are:
AD-DAVID (admission/transfer/post op orders): admission, diagnosis, diet, activity, vitals, investigations, drugs.
DIMS (causes of acute neurological change): drugs, infection, metabolic, structural
VITAMIN C + D (when thinking of broad differential for causes of almost any problem): vascular, inflammatory, traumatic, autoimmune, metabolic, infectious, neoplastic, congenital, degenerative
Never heard of the VITAMIN C+D. Thank you!
I’m a med student and your videos are really helpful. Thank you
My favourites are OLDCARTS to take pain history and pretty much any symptoms; ABCDE for assessment of unstable, critical patients and resus; and 4Hs and 4Ts for causes of reversible cardiac arrest. Honourable mention for Delirium.
We use SOCRATES for pain hx
LOCAAATES is the right and only way!
👏👏👏👏👏 Good work, doctor! Thanks! Learned these recently and glad to know they’re actually used, lol.
Not a doc or even a nurse, but I do like to learn this stuff from my mum who is a nurse. The one I remember best is FAST - Facial drooping, Arm weakness, Slurred speech, and Time for a stroke. I thought FACE was one too, but can't remember it and a search isn't telling me either so meh.
Not a medical professional, but the things I remember:
Internal bleeding reminder: Blood on the floor, four more
(not sure where I heard this as again do not work in medicine)
Stroke: FAST (face, arms, speech, time)
(Also: Time lost is brain lost)
Heart attack: HEPPP (hot, exhausted, pain, pale, puke)
(Heard this from Rosie O'Donnell who did a stand up about her heart attack and created this mnemonic and turned it into a rap based on her symptoms, her primary symptom being exhaustion)
Mudpiles has been replaced with goldmark on first aid... rip mudpiles u will be missed
Thank you for sharing! Your facial expressions combined with your editing made this MS2 smile!
Really fun to read other people's examples below. There's a YT general surgery resident (now a practitioner) who had spectacular examples that he posted.
I am not a doc, but my favorite medical mnemonic is “Some say marry money but my brother says big brains matter more” for which cranial nerves are sensory or motor.
🤣🤣 our version was:
Some Scientists Make Money, But My Brother Says Beautiful Blonde Makes More!
We used the 5H’s 5T’s for causes of PEA. Types of fractures=GOT SIC-greenstick, oblique, transverse, spiral, impacted, comminuted. I always had a hard time remembering OS & OD, so I just remembered “If something is ‘sinister’(left=OS-oculus sinister), it’s not ‘right’(right=OD-oculus dexter).” Of course had the ABCDE, now ABCDEFG. In ER, one of the ER docs told me to remember “fingers, toes, hands, nose, & someplace else (penis)”-places NOT to use lidocaine with epinephrine. Always helpful when having to pull lido. for suture set-ups! “Beta Beat Big” for effects of beta drugs-increase heart rate & dilate the vessels.
I'm a nurse and my favorite from school was VEAL CHOP for reading FHR strips
V(ariable decels) - C(ord compression)
E(arly decels) - H(ead compression
A(accelerations) - O(K)
L(ate decels) - P(lacental insufficiency)
I like how he used his dji osmo mobile gimble as a stand for his steths
Thanks for noticing 😁
Hey Dr. Schmidt….. In critical care nursing one of our educators told us about DICS as a mnemonic ….Hyperkalemia management in acute care …. Dextrose insulin calcium gluconate and sodium Chloride in that order …😜😜😜😜
I love your videos on TikTok. I'm excited you're on TH-cam now! Please get some better audio!
C.A.D.E.T. right face (Right shift on the O2 dissociation curve). Will always be the G.O.A.T. And GOLDMARK is the new MUDPILES.
2nd year med student here - they taught us GOLDMARK last year for AGMA so unfortunately I will probably never learn MUDPILES...
I like ABCDE for melanoma. :)
Thanks!!
Not really a mnemonic, but also from EMCrit + Cliff Reid, "four plus the floor" = where the massive hemorrhage went: 1) long bones, 2) thorax, 3)abdominal, 4)pelvic, or all over the floor.
Two faves from veterinary critical care:
SLUD! Salivation, lacrimation, urination, defecation = fluid overload symptoms
DOPES (courtesy of EmCrit!) for what might be acutely wrong when your ventilated patient is suddenly crumping after seemingly to be relatively stabilized. Mind, it is what you check AFTER you disconnect them from the circuit: Displacement [check the tube is still where it ought to be]; Obstruction/open [shove the suction cath in there and either pull out the clog or at least move it out of the way]; Pneumothorax [tension pneumothorax]; Equipment [did the vent settings go feral or something similar?]; and Stacking [stacked breaths in obstructive airway dz patients is baaaaad news]
For Reiter's syndrom:
-Can't see
-Can't pee
-Can't climb the tree
mean uveitis, cystitis, arthritis.
Kayexalate has had some studies recently (past 5 years) that call it's efficacy into question. The resin has shown to be 1. Not selective for K+ and will pull any +1 cation, of which Na is far more abundant and so will take up much of the binding sites. 2. It's always mixed with sorbitol (to "prevent the resin from coalescing" and causing constipation) which, like any osmotic laxative will draw K+ from the intestinal lining. You're better off with just the sorbitol, or any number of other, equal or better, osmotic laxitives, orally or PR.
Thanks for this. Going to do further research.
That was awesome!! Thank you!
let me note that down, thats quite helpful.
My favorite mnemonic is about Glasgow Coma scale that i have posted on my channel.
So glad Im doing a residency in ortho and can forget all this internal medicine stuff. You guys are the best for enjoying it all, remembering it and helping us when we want to admit the patients to you after we fix the fracture.
Types of fractures=GOT SIC. Green stick, oblique, transverse, spiral, impacted, comminuted.
Then the basics like ABCDE for resuscitation and then the 5 H's and 5 T's the main causes of PEA 👍
yes Hs and Ts! use them at every code
Why are there so many #Ps mnemonics out there? like 7Ps for thyroid hormone, 5Ps for drugs causing acute interstitial nephritis and sxs of pheochromocytoma?
6 P’s of compartment syndrome / ischemic limb
Lichen Planus has P's too if I'm not mistaken (polygonal, purple plaques, etc). Also there P's for Acute Intermittent Porphyria (port wine urine, polyneuropathy, psych, and 2 other ones I can't remember). Aren't there also P's for AKI? Penicillin, pain meds. You're right we do love our P's
I'm gonna take a quasi educated but totally shot in the dark guess and say it may have something to do with "p" and "ph" sounds coming from two different Greek alphabet letters. Like since those both came to involve our letter P, it now gets an advantage over other consonants in terms of how often it shows up in all our words influenced by those language roots, and Greek of course makes up a lot of medical terminology. Maybe, idk 🤷♂️ Just pulled that conjecture out of my ass pretty much lol but it makes sense to me that it could at least be a contributing factor! Plus P and F are very clear and uncomplicated consonants for any speaking human to make, so that probably helps those sounds come up more commonly as well.
Love this!! More please!!
Thank you! Doc Schmidt, all your videos are very interesting and educational 💫💕
AEIOU and sometimes Y. It’s the vowels!
I like to add BREATHE for causes of Dyspnea and 4-2-1 for dangerous causes of chest pain. They come in handy to a surgeon when dealing with internal medicine probleme
As a 40 year auto mechanic ya I’m confused 🤦♂️ 😂
"Water under the bridge" in Anatomy.
My favorite was the one for the 12 cranial nerves.
FAVAGOSHOTTO
One of mine is the different types of shock, RNCHAMPS
Respiratory
Neurogenic
Cardiogenic
Hemorrhagic
Anaphylactic
Metabolic
Psychological
Septic
Everyone in my university used Never Let Monkeys Eat Bananas to remember which white cell was more concentrated than the others
“P” in MUDPILES is paraldehyde.
Propylene glycol causes an osmolal gap without anion gap
Sorry to re-injure
Love the videos
Propylene glycol can indeed cause a high anion gap, though, especially when a patient is receiving multiple infusions as it is a preservative or something in those. This is widely reported, even when none of those infusions contain anything else that can widen the anion gap
I'll add 5F's for cholelithiasis
F the Poets for cranial bones
That's amazing, I've had to study cranial bones for two different fields/contexts now and never heard that one. Thanks for sharing!
And I've heard of four Fs for cholelithiasis but idk what the fifth would be
@@ItsAsparageese its Female, fertile, fat, forty and fair
@@nihitkhunteta6137 Ahhh fair is the new one on me, thanks!
It seems like we could automate prompting the doctor with these mnemonics and then let the Doctor decide. I wonder how IT might change the practice of medicine.
Not a mnemonic but my favorite is memory trick is for anticholinergics - can’t see, can’t pee, can’t spit, can’t s***.
Dr Schmidt: the 3rd Green brother
Please teach us more!!!
I can’t believe you didn’t include my ABCDEFG for diabetes!
Also use that acronym in secondary survey for trauma: airway, breathing, circulation, disability, exposure/everything else, fluids, glucose. Sometimes DEFG is used in primary surgery as “don’t ever forget glucose”
New sub here ✋
I started cardiology resident
*seeing that mudpiles is the first one* Nooo I hated trying to remember that for exams D: The others are nice, though.
FAST HUGS BID‘ by Vincent and Hatton is my favourite for ICU admitted patients:
Feeding/fluids
Analgesia
Sedation
Thromboprophylaxis
Head up position
Ulcer prophylaxis
Glycemic control
Spontaneous breathing trial
Bowel care
Indwelling catheter removal
Deescalation of antibiotics
You remember the mnemonic. But don't remember what's in it 🤦♂️
After many years still my favorite is CHIMPANZEES for hypercalcemia reasons.
Great Mnemonics
My first one and fav, She Looks Pretty Try To Catch Her= carpel bones
Hey Doc, can you make some more study tip videos
Make "POOP IS MAGIC" into one....
I work with forensic pathologists, and one of them always tells us the ones she learnt for med school. They were all inappropriate.
My very excellent mother asteroid belt just served us nine pluto is back by popular demand. Oort cloud.
POUND for migraines is pretty good
Dude! You rock!
Let the slumdog flowwwww
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I wonder if I’m the only one here who has to slow down your video speed to follow along with you.
I don't usually, but for this one it's late and I'm tired so I did because I kept having to run back lol. We all have varying speeds at different times, I wobble all over the place with it on different channels for different uses of my brain. So point is, you're not alone!
Sometimes for sure! But I truly appreciate the speed of these videos! It is so much easier to stop one than to try to skip forward when someone drags everything out.
really helpful i was waiting for your joke though!
AEIOU TIPs for AMS- alcohol/acidosis, electrolytes/ endocrine, insulin, overdose/ O2, uremia, trauma, intoxication/ infection, psych, stroke/sepsis/seizure
I don't know bout favourite but the most random and useless mnemonic I remember off the top of my head is for Klebsiella
ABCDE ie aspiration pneumonia, lung and liver aBscess, Currant jelly sputum, Diabetics, Etoh
I mean when and where am I going to need this info 😂
At the next family Thanksgiving dinner when an alcoholic relative spits up some currant jelly. You'll know it's not cranberry sauce but Klebsiella and you'll save the day.
I like the one about the wrist bones about shy people who want to have sex or something like that, but I can't remember the mnemonic, let alone the bones.
Some Lovers Try Positions That They Can't Handle
I prefer: So (scaphoid) Long (lunate) To (triquetrium) Pinky (pisiform) Here (hamate) Comes (capitate) The (trapezoid) ThUMB (trapezIUM)
I've never liked remembering/imagining the carpals in that order for some reason, so for anyone who like me prefers to imagine them as two rows like you're reading top line then bottom line (dorsal view right wrist, so going from radial to ulnar and distal row then proximal row), the common one is
Try To Catch Her
She Looks Too Pretty
and I like mine silly so I made up
Torpid Tyrannosaurus Can't Help
Sitting Low To Poop
And yeah trapeziUM rhymes with THUMB so you can remember the order of the trapezium and trapezoid (triquetral is conveniently off on its own)
@@reddog6433 Also this is awesome, if I'd heard this one first I wouldn't have needed to imagine them in a different order to remember the actual visual/spatial correspondence to the words lol. Yours inherently communicates that. That's awesome, definitely stealing for myself and especially those I tutor
What can I say... I’m a genius!
Nice vid!
Awesome 😎 your the best I’m learning stuff ❤️
I thought you were joking about AEIOU. 😆
Very helpful. Thank you
As an intern, I must say I love your content Doc
Thank you it was really helpful
Re: terrifying training-Ron was training for the priesthood under a superior who seemed to relish humiliating seminarians. As Ron was saying mass the 1st time with all his mates in attendance, he raised the communion wafer and intoned “Taking the bread, He gave it to his disciples…”
From across the chapel, his instructor roared “HE BROKE IT! He took the bread and BROKE it!”
Determined never to endure this shame again, Ron practiced the ritual privately until he was certain it was etched into his mind. Still, when his turn came once again to prepare the Eucharist, he saw his superior and began to sweat.
All went well until Ron raised the chalice and proclaimed “He raised the cup, BROKE IT, gave it to his disciples…”
Ah, Christian "charity".
The 6 Fs of abdominal distension:
Fat
Fluid
Faeces
Flatus
Fetus
F'ing big tumour
Jesus...I have a lot to learn 🥺🥺🥺🥺
Very helpful!
Consistent stories for sure lmao
All People Enjoy Time Magazine
A Pet Monkey
All Physicians Take Money for order of auscultation, Toilet Paper My Ass for order of circulation
Please explain!
I can’t help but expect a joke or your other characters in a non comedic video
Thankyou
I have no "clue" why it smells like fish.
What's this one?
@@ItsAsparageese Gardnerella, clue cells, fishy odor
@@pixpusha Thanks for elaborating!
I could never use mnemonics....It just felt like I was having to learn a bunch of extra esoteric things in addition to “drinking out of the fire hose” that we were already doing. Thankfully I’d worked for 10 years in hospital-labs, path labs, ER, phlebotomy....had 2 kids, put my ex through his masters, divorced him, and was working 20 hrs per week as a single Mom on top of med school. Of course I also ended up as Senate Secretary and sang in our choir, Osteopera-I think I was hypo-manic at the time!😂
I was only able to study when the kids were with their Dad every other weekend. Met my husband to be online in my 2nd year of med school and dropped the studying to 1 day every 2 weeks. 😉. It was worth it!
Hoy. Yo qn outro :0
how about abcde for anything
I knew all these 😂
Do you have any politically incorrect ones, like electrical engineers and their resistor colour codes?
What's so funny is I'd bet most of us still don't understand the explanations
HEART FAILS P is also great
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@@JaimeDornanLady the percipitants of heart failure
yay a medical fairy male teacher (fairy i dont meant it in the cultural homo way. i mean a magical helper).
Can't see, can't pee, can't spit, can't shit to remember anticholinergic side effects. Also Praise The Lord for monitoring of amiodarone side effects (pulmonary, thyroid, liver)
O SHIT ME for asthma attacks
Oxygen
Salbutamol
Hydrocortisone
Ipatropium
Theophylline
Magnesium.
Escalate