Ace Your First Aid for the USMLE Step 1 (2023) Classes and Exams with Picmonic: #1 Visual Mnemonic Study Tool for Medicine (MD/DO) Students
With Picmonic, facts become pictures. We've taken what the science shows - image mnemonics work - but we've boosted the effectiveness by building and associating memorable characters, interesting audio stories, and built-in quizzing. Whether you're studying for your classes or getting ready for a big exam, we're here to help.
First Aid for the USMLE Step 1 (2023) | Medicine (MD/DO) School Study Aid
Ventricular Septal Defect (VSD)
- Pathophysiology
- Opening at Intraventricular Septum
- Most Common Congenital Heart lesion
- Symptoms
- High-pitched Holosystolic Murmer (over left sternal border)
- Dyspnea and Respiratory Distress
- Loud Pulmonic S2
- Diagnosis
- Echocardiogram
- Treatment
- Small VSDs Close Spontaneously
- Large VSDs Require Surgery
- Complications
- Endocarditis
- Eisenmenger's Syndrome
- CHF
2 mins
Transposition of Great Vessels
- Pathophysiology
- Pulmonary and Systemic Circulation are in Parallel
- Incompatible with Life Without a Shunt
- Symptoms
- Severe Cyanosis at Birth
- Single S2 sound
- Diagnosis
- Echocardiogram
- Chest X-ray shows "Egg-shaped Silhouette"
- Treatment
- Prostaglandin
- Avoid NSAIDs
- Surgical Correction
- Balloon Atrial Septostomy
2 mins
Tetralogy of Fallot (TOF)
- Features
- Blue Baby Syndrome
- Mechanism
- PROVe Acronym
- Pulmonary Infundibular Stenosis
- Right Ventricular Hypertrophy
- Overriding Aorta
- Ventricular Septal Defect (VSD)
- Diagnosis and Treatment
- Boot-Shaped Heart
- Squatting for Tet Spells
- Surgery
2 mins
Persistent Truncus Arteriosus
- Common Arterial Trunk
- Single Trunk Emerges from Both Ventricles
- Symptoms
- Cyanosis
- Pulmonary Congestion
- Heart Failure
- Single S2 Sound
- Diagnosis
- Echocardiogram
- Chest X-ray
- Treatment
- Early Surgical Correction
- Avoids Pulmonary Hypertension
2 mins
Pharyngeal Arch Derivatives: 1st Arch
- Cartilage
- Meckel's Cartilage
- Mandible
- Malleus
- Incus
- Sphenomandibular Ligament
- Muscles
- Muscles of Mastication
- Tensor Tympani
- Tensor Veli Palatini
- Anterior Belly of the Digastric
- Mylohyoid
- Nerves
- CN V2
- CN V3
- Conditions
- Treacher Collins Syndrome
3 mins
Pharyngeal Arch Derivatives: 2nd Arch
- Cartilage
- Reichert's Cartilage
- Stapes
- Styloid Process
- Lesser Horn of Hyoid
- Stylohyoid Ligament
- Muscles
- Muscles of Facial Expression
- Stapedius
- Stylohyoid
- Platysma
- Posterior Belly of Digastric
- Nerves
- CN VII
- Conditions
- Congenital Pharyngocutaneous Fistula
2 mins
Pharyngeal Arch Derivatives: 3rd Arch
- Cartilage
- Greater Horn of Hyoid
- Muscles
- Stylopharyngeus
- Nerves
- CN IX (Glossopharyngeal)
- Arteries
- Common Carotid
- Internal Carotid
1 min
Pharyngeal Arch Derivatives: 4-6 Arches
- Cartilage
- Thyroid
- Cricoid
- Arytenoids
- Corniculate
- Cuneiform
- Muscles
- 4th: Cricothyroid
- 4th: Pharyngeal Constrictors
- 6th: Intrinsic Muscles of Larynx
- Nerves
- 4th: CN X (Vagus Nerve)
- Superior Laryngeal Branch
- 6th: CN X (Vagus Nerve)
- Recurrent Laryngeal Branch
2 mins
