Med School Radio - Simon R. Downes: Recent Episodes
Simon R. Downes, MD, PhD student
Subjects related to medical school class content, and the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE). (Not affiliated with the NBME or USMLE). Simon R. Downes, PhD, MD student
Oceania University of Medicine interviewed me regarding my final year and experiences studying at OUM - the first medical school to incorporate an online component into their curriculum.
日本語で自己紹介をします。よろしくお願いします。アメリカ医学生の臨床研修をやっています。Interview on Japanese radio in 2008 and today - PhD to MD.
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A two-year-old boy is brought to your office after his parents noticed a large abdominal mass while dressing him
A six-year-old girl has the sudden onset of swelling of her face, hands, legs, and feet
Osmosis.org - Decreased fetal movement revealed an amniotic fluid volume that was lower than expected for gestational age
Osmosis.org - A 65-year old man with shortness of breath on exertion, pitting edema and crackles at the lung bases
Osmosis.org - A 62-year-old woman has extreme weakness, stage 4 in renal disease, and it has been 6 days since her last dialysis
Osmosis.org - A 55-year-old man comes to the office because of feeling thirsty and frequent urination for 1 week
Osmosis.org - A 55-year-old man who has smoked for the past 35 years is experiencing seizures
Try to remember the common causes of pneumonia by separating them into age groups and special groups
A nine month old girl has had two seizures in the past month. She was born at home and received no state mandated newborn screening
A 25 year old woman comes to the physician because of a 10 year history of frequent occurrences of fever blisters
A six-year-old boy with glioblastoma has a recurrence of the tumor despite aggressive treatment
A 37 year-old woman comes to the physician because of a two month history of pain with movement of her hands and feet
A 15-year-old girl is brought to the physician because of a three-week history of excessive thirst and voiding excessive amounts of urine
A 46-year-old man comes to the physician because of a two week history of intermittent dizziness and difficulty standing up
A 10-year-old boy is brought to the emergency department because of vomiting for six hours. He has had excessive thirst and excretion of large amounts of urine for three weeks.
Hey 60 year old man has a five day history of productive cough and shortness of breath with exertion
A previously healthy 36 year old man comes to the emergency department 12 hours after the sudden onset of increasingly severe abdominal pain
The 24-year-old woman who breast-feeds her infant develops a warm painful mass and erythema of the overlying skin in the upper outer quadrant of the right breast
A 47-year-old man comes to the physician because of a four day history of pain in his left that began when he tripped over a curb
A 50-year-old woman with a history of ovarian cancer comes to the physician’s office because of swelling in her right leg for the past month
A 25-year-old man is brought to the emergency department because of a one-week history of fever and cough productive of purulent sputum
A 28-year-old who man had rheumatic fever as a child comes to the physician’s office because of fatigue and dyspnea for the past four months
A 30 year-old man is brought to the emergency department 30 minutes after being stung by several wasps
A 45-year-old man has a left ventricular ejection fraction of 25% with diffuse hypokinesis
A healthy 19-year-old man receives a tetanus immunization booster prior to induction into the US Marines
An eight-year-old boy needs to be coaxed to go to school and while there often complains of severe headaches or stomach pain
A 23-year-old man who is a graduate student comes to the physician because of a three month history of anxiety
A 37 year-old man with pancreatic cancer is brought to the ER because of fever and muscle aches for four days
An 18-year-old woman has gastroenteritis with nausea and vomiting and is able to ingest only small amounts of water
A 70-year-old man is brought to the emergency department by his wife because of fever and shortness of breath for two days
A two week old female newborn delivered at term is brought to the physician by her mother because of an increasingly severe diaper rash since birth
A 76-year-old man comes to the emergency department because of a 12 hour history of fever and left lower quadrant abdominal pain
A six-year-old boy is brought to the physician by his parents because of a three day history of fever, headache, and cough productive of a green, foul smelling discharge that also exits from his nose
A 15-year-old girl is brought to the physician by her mother because of an eight month history of fatigue
A previously healthy 32-year-old woman who works as a nurse comes to the emergency department because of a three-week history of episodes of dizziness, nausea, and profuse sweating that resolve with eating
Hey 74-year-old man comes to the physician for a follow-up examination. He has a three month history of severe pain and swelling of the metacarpophalangeal joints, wrists elbows and knees
Hospital discharge of a 75-year-old man is delayed due to unavailability of a bed in a nursing home
A 24-year-old primigravid women at 28 weeks gestation has had nagging headaches a puffy looking face and swollen legs for the past week
A five-year-old girl is brought to the emergency department because of fever and severe abdominal pain
A 43-year-old woman comes to the physician because he has not had a menstrual period for three months
A 26-year-old woman is brought to the ER three hours after ingesting approximately 50 tablets of aspirin in a suicide attempt
A 76-year-old man with a history of prostatic hypertrophy has the recent onset of increased difficulty urinating
A comatose 35-year-old man is admitted to the hospital after being involved in a motorcycle collision
A 73-year-old woman comes to the physician because of a two month history of diffuse weakness and tingling of her arms and legs
A 35-year-old man who works at a facility processing highly radioactive substances accidentally receives a high whole body dose of ionizing radiation
A three month old male infant is brought to the physician because of recurrent viral infections and rashes over his trunk
A 50-year-old man has had gradually progressive weakness of the hands during the past year
A 45-year-old woman has a six month history of progressive shortness of breath on exertion
An otherwise healthy 26-year-old woman has had petechiae on her legs during the last 24 hours
A 30-year-old woman whose mother and grandmother have died of carcinoma of the breast refuses to have monography
Warfarin is administered to a 56-year-old man pulling placement of a prosthetic cardiac valve
A 10 month old girl is brought to the physician because of a two day history of diarrhea
A 32 year-old man with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma comes to the physician six days after finishing the initial chemotherapy regimen
A 20-year-old woman comes to the physician because of a five year history of increasingly severe unilateral throbbing headaches
A 40 year old man with a 20 year history of alcohol abuse is brought to the hospital by his friends because he was difficult to arouse
A 58-year-old woman comes to the physician because of intermittent vaginal bleeding during the past three months
A 17-year-old boy comes to the ER because of severe thirst, weakness and weight loss after a trip to Thailand
A two-year-old boy is brought to the emergency department because of shortness of breath and left sided abdominal pain for three hours
A 37-year-old man comes to the physician because of a six month history of chest pain that occurs when he swallows food
A five month old girl has bilateral retinoblastoma. One of the arms of chromosome 13 appears to be cut off or shortened
832-year-old woman with schizophrenia is brought to the physician because of rapid heartbeats, sweating, muscle rigidity and confusion for one day
A 30 year-old woman has anxiety about episodes of abdominal pain that have alternated with diarrhea and constipation over the past year
Vascular control is studied in an intact hind extremity of an anesthetized experimental animal
A 72-year-old man comes to the physician because of sharp pain of his right thorax for three days and a rash and a band like distribution over his right chest for one day
Four month old boy is brought to the emergency department 30 minutes after becoming unresponsive
A 12-year-old boy is brought to the physician by his father because of redness and swelling of his left foot for 24 hours
Three weeks after traveling to California to study desert flowers, a 32 year old man develops fever, chest pain and sore muscles
A 42-year-old woman with type two diabetes mellitus presents with a 2 cm ulcer on the cervix.
Why would a young child not be able to break down fatty acids during a long period of fasting?
When a patient presents to you with pain and cramping during exercise but is able to exercise after rest and ingestion of sucrose this indicates McArdle disease.
If a patient is producing too much aldosterone and hydrogen ions are being sent out with potassium would the environment become more basic or more acidic?
If you have a problem with the activity of glucokinase, the beta cells of the pancreas will not be able to respond to glucose and produce insulin
Diabetic patients should receive selective beta blockers (selective beta 1 antagonists)
If you don’t get enough sun you might experience bone pain as a result of a problem in normal vitamin D metabolism
If a patient comes to you with hoarseness and difficulty breathing it could be a lingual thyroid.
This is MED SCHOOL RADIO • Problems with fructose metabolism: Essential Fructosuria and Hereditary Fructose Intolerence
If an HIV patient presents with unexplained re distribution of body fat, it could be due to the HAART drugs they are taking.