Texas Tech Medcast Reynolds Geriatrics Step2CK Prep Series: No. 40--Rashy Rita
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine
The Step2CK Test Prep Series was created by fourth-year students at the Texas Tech School of Medicine in Lubbock as a project of the fourth-year geriatrics rotation. It was developed as part of the Reynolds Geriatrics Podcast series, which is supported in part by an Aging and Quality of Life grant from the D.W. Reynolds Foundation. The episodes in this series are based on questions that have geriatrics content and patient vignettes from the 2008 Step2CK Sample Exam, available from http://www.ttuhsc.edu/som/fammed/ttmedcast/gerseri.... For more information on the series, go to http://www.ttuhsc.edu/som/fammed/ttmedcast/gerseri....
This episode is based on Question 40 on page 36 of the 2008 Step2CK Sample Exam.
Learning Objectives: the third-year medical student studying for the Step2CK exam should be able to:
- Acknowledge the classic signs of dermatomyositis
- Differentiate dermatomyositis from other cutaneous disorders that may manifest in the geriatric population
- Define key features of the following common rheumatologic diseases: Myasthenia Gravis, Psoriasis, Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, Scleroderma