NMR Predictions for Upcoming USMLE and COMLEX Examinations!
What are the major topics and concepts that will heavily affect your performance on 2021 -2022 exams? Public health, pandemic epidemiology, biostatistics, immunology, and vaccinology will be the dominant flavors of the upcoming medical board examinations! How can you gear up against new generations of USMLE and COMLEX examinations? The answer is a no-brainer! You […]
What are the Most and the Least Demanding Medical Disciplines of the Future?
What is the best medical discipline after worldwide lockdown? If you ask this question as a medical student who is planning to choose a residency program, then the answer will not matter much to you if you truly know what discipline is your calling. If you make your choice based on what allows you to […]
Remdesivir for Covid-19 Treatment!
Why among so many drugs Remdesivir has so far been among the top candidates for treating COVID-19? What attributes of Remdesivir makes it a good medication for treatment of COVID-19? What is the mechanism of action of Remdesivir? What are the most dreaded side effects of Remdesivir? What Remdesivir-related concepts will most likely show-up on […]
Med-Satire-du-Week!
How come American politicians can practice medicine in the US without passing scores on USMLE and/or COMLEX exams! Why do we have to require passing USMLE and COMLEX scores for the US medical students and graduates of American medical schools who have gone through rigorous training at their accredited colleges and want to practice in the […]
About Covid-19 Medications…
What questions will USMLE and COMLEX ask you in your upcoming exams? Why, among so many drugs in the market have only a handful gotten the world’s attention as potential remedies for COVID-19? What are the reasons for selecting and mechanisms of actions of the proposed drugs for treating COVID-19? Why hydroxychloroquine is used for […]
Testing, Testing and More Testing!
Why is there so much fuss about testing? What does it mean for our battle against COVID-19? What do the most commonly used Covid-19 tests reveal to us? Notice: For important concepts related to Covid-19 disease and immunology please scroll down to the following heading: “Had We Known What We Know Now About Social Distancing…” […]
Tylenol, Advil, Aspirin, and Covid-19
What drug companies did not want you to know about Aspirin and Advil in asthma and COPD? What you are about to read in our blog will most likely change your entire outlook about these meds! Beneatha: In mid-March and when Corona erupted, the household rumor was that Advil and Aspirin may predispose us to COVID-19 […]
American Medical Students Should Receive Their Degrees Without USMLE or COMLEX Stipulations…
Medical Schools Accelerating Graduation to Combat COVID-19: To facilitate more frontline workers against the COVID-19 Pandemic, American universities are progressively implementing early graduation for their medical students. This phenomenon reignites Dr. E’s quest for abolishing the practice of requiring passing USMLE and COMLEX scores for awarding medical degrees to the American medical students! The Irony: […]
Good News for Home-bound Medical Students!
Free NBME® Self-Assessments and Answer Explanations Available in April, 2020! Northwestern Medical Review applauds the decision of NBME (USMLE) organization to freely make its comprehensive exams available to all medical students on April 5. This is in our opinion a very adorable and humanitarian gesture by the NBME to support all home-bound medical students of […]
Firsthand Covid-19 Report of a Frontline Emergency Physician
This blog is written by a front-line physician and as a peer-to-peer advise for his peers regarding Covid-19 diagnosis, prognosis and management. I am an ER MD in New Orleans. Every one of my colleagues have now seen several hundred Covid 19 patients and this is my take on it as of now. Clinical course […]
Must-Know Coronavirus-Related Concepts Made Ridiculously Simple by Dr. E: Part 2
Presented in question and answer format, Dr. E answers your top-most important mind-boggling concerns about the Covid-19! Beneatha: Lately, I have been hearing much on “co-morbidity”. They say it is an important factor in predicting the prognosis (outcome) of the Covid-19. Is morbidity the same as mortality? Also, what are the co-morbidities of Covid-19? Dr. E: […]
Absurdity of the USMLE requirement for awarding MD Degrees
USMLE scores should not be used as a required criteria for awarding MD degrees to graduates of medical schools The practice of awarding MD degrees to students who have passed their USMLE exams is unethical and likely to be illegal. Medical schools that brag and rave about their curriculum must award the degrees of students […]
American Osteopathic Students and COMLEX Exams
Should we no longer require passing COMLEX scores from American osteopathic students who do not wish to practice medicine? The primary purpose of the COMLEX exams is to evaluate the knowledge levels and skills of the osteopathic school grads for practicing medicine in the US. By the same token, the primary purpose of the American […]
Osteopathic vs. Allopathic Medicine: Lions vs. Tigers
There are two types of physicians, allopathic and osteopathic. Each practices in an important area of medicine, and both have noticeable overlapping functions. There are major misconceptions about the quality of the American osteopathic medical schools among international medical students, and in particular among students of the Caribbean schools. These commonly stem from two unqualified […]