WILTIMS #239: Where's Waldo's NSAID?

Here is a concept map I made from just one lecture in Pharm! Everyone reading this should recognize at least a few of these. Can you find aspirin?

TIL: The mnemonic for the signs of sleep apnea, STOPBANG. A patient needs to display ≥3 of these features to warrant an expensive and time intensive sleep study to confirm the diagnosis.

Snoring
Tired
Observed apnea (by a spouse or partner)
Blood Pressure (>140/90)
BMI (>35)
Age (>50)
Neck circumference (>16/>17 for F/M)
Gender (M)

Study Aid #7

Study Aid #6

Not sure if this was studying or procrastination, but it turned out pretty nice! There are a couple not entirely accurate things, but it's good enough for my purposes. I will hopefully get a chance to fix it up before the final or Step 1.

Click to embiggen. You want to, trust me.

Study Aid #3

I promise: this is the last long weekend we have until Thanksgiving. From here on out, my posts should be more consistent.

I'm happy to have the time though as we have our second histology test and our first histology practical on Monday. We are one of the few medical schools that still uses microscopes and thus one of the few that still has a practical exam for this field. Whether or not that's a good thing is up for debate...

The diagram to the right is my new version of the concept map I made during my post-bacc year, seen below with the overlapping cellular pathways highlighted. We don't (yet) need to know as much as I needed to know for that old class and the pathways we do need to know have either been described slightly differently or discovered to be in fact different in the intervening years. It's nice to have this foundation to build on!

Study Aid #2

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We're in the midst of another four day weekend that is perfectly situated for studying for our anatomy test on Monday. I wrapped up yesterday's study session with a midnight cadaver poking session. Tonight, I decided to make a concept map of all the vasculature we need to know for the upcoming exam. I'll probably keep tweaking it but I thought I'd share what I've done so far. A nervous system map will probably follow tomorrow...

WILTIMS #31: Dishevelled Cellular Pathways

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The above is a concept map that I made during my post-baccalaureate year while studying for the final in a class called Cell Proliferation, Senescence and Death. It was a fascinating, if overwhelming class but boy am I glad to have taken it because, sure enough, the pathways are part of my histology/cell biology class in med school.

My favorite proteins from that chart are Frizzled and Dishevelled, so named because in the Drosophila fly they coordinate the alignment of hairs.

TI(re-)L: Bad/Bid/Puma inhibit Bcl-2 which down-regulates BAX/BAK which causes Apaf to dimerize in the presence of Cytochrome C, activating Caspase-9, leading to the further activation of Caspase-3 which triggers apoptotic cell death, possibly preventing the development of cancer. Simple!