Spoonful of Sugar Ria Mulherkar
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- Health & Fitness
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A podcast to help the medicine go down
For medical students, by medical students
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Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is arguably one of the highest yield topics on USMLE Step 1/COMLEX Level 1 exam. In this episode, third-year medical student Alexa Rae Churan will discuss HIV and all the critical facts you need to know. From basic biology, including genes, viral structure, and lifecycle, to clinical presentation, workup, and treatment, we cover it all. Be sure to tune in and check it out!
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Schizophrenia
Arguably one of the most complicated topics concerning the psychiatry questions seen on USMLE/COMLEX. In this episode, Bilal Rana will work through the differentials related to schizophrenia to clarify the pitfalls students find themselves in.
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What Every Medical Student Should Know About Integrative Medicine
Have you heard of the specialty of integrative medicine? What is it, and how does an integrative medicine physician care for their patients? In this episode, Ria interviews Dr. Chiti Parikh, who is board certified in integrative medicine and is the executive director of the Integrative Health and Wellbeing Program at Weill Cornell Medicine. She also recently published a book called “Intentional Health,” which talks about how she blends ancient health principles from ayurvedic medicine with modern Western medical practices. Tune in to listen to this interview, learn about integrative medicine, and learn about how you can potentially incorporate this specialty into your future career.
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Defense Mechanisms
There are a long list of mature and immature mechanisms. Our very own Bilal Rana will go over all of them!
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Tips for Teaching Effectively
Everyone in medicine has to teach at some point - whether you’re educating peers, residents, medical students, or patients. Despite this expectation, most of us are never formally trained in how to teach. How do you pick a topic that’s salient and appropriate for the time and space you’ve been allotted, how do you structure the content in a way that makes sense, and most importantly, how do you make it stick? In this special episode, Spoonful of Sugar founder Dr. Ria Mulherkar shares some advice from her experience with teaching on the podcast.
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Psychotherapy
There are quite a number of psychotherapy modalities discussed on USMLE/COMLEX. In this episode, Bilal Rana will be talking about the most high yield ones.
Customer Reviews
Step1 Rapid Review
Lovedddd using these episodes the day before I sat for Step1. It helped sooo much, especially the heart sounds pneumonics! Now I have day 2 of Step (accommodations) coming up next week and can’t wait to listen to more review episodes. Please do an episode on meningitis common bugs. Great work, keep this podcast going!
REMARKABLE High Yield Study Tool
I am OBSESSED with Spoonful of Sugar!! This podcast is my favorite in-house exam prep resource to date. It is so engaging to listen to the episodes and challenge myself to respond to Ria’s questions, and I have selected numerous correct answers based on remembering Spoonful of Sugar keywords. Ria (and each other guest podcaster) takes you Step by Step (pun absolutely intended) through the biochem, pathophysiology, clinical presentation, and treatment of all the most high yield conditions helping listeners learn information AND synthesize it AND remember it long term. Though I have yet to take Step 1 or COMLEX Level 1, I know this podcast will have been a monumental resource, purely based on my reliance upon it during in-house exams. INCREDIBLE podcast!!
The best podcast for preclinical
Immensely helpful for in-house exam prep not just step 1