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USMLE® Step 1 & 2

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4 Min Read

Kaplan USMLE Step 2 prep: Senior man has worsening cough

Prep with help from Kaplan Medical. The case: A 72-year-old man with worsening cough productive of blood-tinged sputum and progressively darkening skin. What is the cause of his condition?

Specialty Profiles

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6 Min Read

What it’s like in interventional cardiology: Shadowing Dr. Azrak

Personal interest and content of specialty are the most popular motivating factors for medical students when they pick a career path.

USMLE® Step 1 & 2

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Kaplan USMLE Step 1 prep: Newborn has large mass over lumbar region

Prep with help from Kaplan Medical. The case: Baby born at 37 weeks' gestation has a large mass over lumbar region. What’s the likeliest diagnosis?
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USMLE® Step 1 & 2

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4 Min Read

Kaplan USMLE Step 2 prep: 6 cases where headache is a common symptom

Prep with help from Kaplan Medical. Can you answer these questions involving headaches? Find out now.

USMLE® Step 3

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4 Min Read

Kaplan USMLE Step 3 prep: Next step for woman with hip pain

Prep with help from Kaplan Medical. The case: 45-year-old with a 5-year history of systemic lupus erythematosus has hip pain. What should come next?
Photo-illustration looking down on three people walking a red line representing a tight rope.

Ethics

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3 Min Read

In patient care, what is the ethical role of risk managers?

Learn how risk managers can collaborate with ethics consultants, physicians and other health professionals to properly respond to complex questions around caregiving, ethics and law.

Behavioral Health

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4 Min Read

Providing individualized pain care during COVID in West Virginia

Pain-management clinic works to reverse the overdose epidemic’s impact on the state by using whole-person approach to provide custom care.

USMLE® Step 1 & 2

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4 Min Read

Kaplan USMLE Step 2 prep: Man with low back pain, other symptoms

Prep with help from Kaplan Medical. The case: 45-year-old has low back pain that radiates to scrotum, dysuria, pain on defecation. What’s likely diagnosis?