Medical Mnemonics: Tool for assessing CAP severity – SMART COP

It’s Medical Mnemonics Monday! Regardless of whether you’re studying for your ABIM board exam, USMLE Step exams (or any other medical board exam), it’s important to understand Community Acquired Pneumonia (CAP). Today we focus on assessing the severity of CAP, which can be remembered by the mnemonic SMART COP.  

Medical Mnemonics – SMART Cop – Assessing Severity of Community Acquired Pneumonia (CAP)

  

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Medical Mnemonics: Recurrent Causes of Miscarriage – “RIB CAGE”

It’s Medical Mnemonics Monday! Regardless of whether you’re studying for your ABIM board exam, USMLE Step exams (or any other medical board exam), it’s important to understand potential recurrent causes of miscarriage. Potential causes of miscarriage can be remembered by the mnemonic RIB CAGE.

Medical Mnemonics: Causes of Miscarriage can be remembered by RIB CAGE

You can see a list of our previous Medical Mnemonics here.

Medical Mnemonics - Cyanosis - Cold Palms

It’s Medical Mnemonics Monday! Regardless of whether you’re studying for your ABIM board exam, USMLE Step exams (or any other medical board exam), it’s important to understand Cyanosis. Differential diagnosis of Cyanosis can be remembered by “COLD PALMS”

You can see a list of our previous Medical Mnemonics here.