Texas Tech Medcast Reynolds Geriatrics Step 1 Prep Series: No. 31--The Bionic Bleeding Man
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine
Sponsor:
Donald W. Reynolds Foundation
POGOe Id:
20674
Posted:
10/07/2010
Updated:
01/22/2013
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Abstract:
The Step1 Test Prep Series was created by second-year students at the Texas Tech School of Medicine in Lubbock as a project of the MS2 Aging Block of Systems Disorders II. 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 2010 Step1 Sample Exam, available from http://www.ttuhsc.edu/som/fammed/ttmedcast/gerseri....
Educational objectives:
The second-year medical student studying for the Step2CK exam should be able to:
- Identify the drug-drug interaction of trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole and warfarin
- Explain warfarin's mechanism of action
- Explain the role of Vitamin K in Warfarin overdose
- Explain aspirin's mechanism of action
- Identify normal INR values for a patient on anti-coagulant therapy
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Estimated time to complete:
30 minutes
Contact person/corresponding author:
Dr. Betsy Goebel Jones, betsy.jones@ttuhsc.edu
Suggested Citation:
Dr. Betsy Goebel Jones, Dr. Andrew Dentino, Neha Amin, Ali Ashraf, Wesley Fletcher, Gina In, Joseph Langston, Holly Mead, Sterling Overstreet, Ryan Rowland and Spencer Thomas. Texas Tech Medcast Reynolds Geriatrics Step 1 Prep Series: No. 31--The Bionic Bleeding Man. POGOe - Portal of Geriatric Online Education; 2010 Available from: http://www.pogoe.org/productid/20674