Dr. AP | Action Potential Mentoring, LLC @action_ap

Vascular Surgeon - I help med students crush the USMLE, get research pubs, and match into their goal specialty. Tweets = personal opinions actionpotentialmentoring.com The Accelerator Program ➡️ Joined June 2020

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Dr. AP | Action Potential Mentoring, LLC @action_ap

2 days ago

The thing you don’t want to do right now is what you need to be doing. Timed UWorld ✅ Study glycogen storage diseases ✅ Ask for that LOR ✅ #ActionPotentialMentoring

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8 hours ago

You create your own luck 🍀 what kind of luck are you generating this week?

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2 years ago

Old school Attending discussing USMLE: “Back in my day we just opened up a book and read through it and took the test. It’s nbd.”

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2 days ago

When an 80 year old attending says, “This will prepare you for your shelf”…🫠 #MedTwitter #MedStudentTwitter #MedEd

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20 hours ago

Insight into my own personal development/Something I've been thinking about lately: “If you wish to not get stuck, seek to perceive what you have not yet perceived.” #MedTwitter #MedEd

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2 days ago

On 24hr call for the next 4 days straight.

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2 days ago

Unspoken rule of med school that I’m tired of seeing broken: Don’t speak down about other specialties that you’re not interested in. Fun fact: I was planning on going into geriatrics for a large % of med school. Now we’re here 😬 - Operating on geriatric patients’ blood…

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a day ago

Here are about 10 examples of how vascular surgery be tested on the USMLE Step 1-2 Key concept: Patients HR drops from 80 to 40 during a carotid endarterectomy. Why? Carotid body reflex bradycardia is caused by parasympathetic overactivity due to stimulation of carotid sinus…

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2 days ago

If you’re stuck on a USMLE question deciding between a seizure or a CVA as the diagnosis… Look for conjugate eye deviation This is a clue that it’s MORE LIKELY a seizure

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2 days ago

If the patient is older than 40 & does NOT have subclavian stenosis on your USMLE question, the answer is not Takayasu arteritis. If you suspect Takayasu, the next best step = get ESR BEFORE anything else (before starting antiplatelet, imaging, surgery, etc)