Does anyone else go oh **** when they show you a gross of a cardiac valve

[PokerDoc]

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I am horrible at identifying whether its a ruptured cordae tendon, mitral prolapse, calcification or whatever, all is see is a bloody mess.. I get these questions right like 50% of the time because the vinette gives me enough of a clue to what the disease is, but sometimes they just point and say 'what dis?'

 

[bergwood]

I am horrible at identifying whether its a ruptured cordae tendon, mitral prolapse, calcification or whatever, all is see is a bloody mess.. I get these questions right like 50% of the time because the vinette gives me enough of a clue to what the disease is, but sometimes they just point and say 'what dis?'

I'm right there with you. I feel like they always do a horrible job of taking the picture as to make it so you can't see what's really going on. There's a question on UW that shows mitral valve stenosis (apparently), but the picture is taken from the left atrium and all it looks like is a closed valve since you can't see it from the side or below. And the picture is taken up so close that you honestly can't even tell what chamber of the heart you're in.

 

[golfman]

That's funny, I was going to post something like this but forgot about it.

Even after reading the answer explanations I still don't know what they are talking about.

 

[TexasTriathlete]

They might as well take a picture of Disneyland and put it up there. Like I know what the hell those stupid heart valves are supposed to look like.

All I gather from those pictures is that there is a heart valve, and it has something wrong with it. But they could have just put in the stem of the question

"A 32 year old female immigrant from Peru presents to the emergency department with chest pain and shortness of breath. She has never been vaccinated for anything, and further questioning reveals that she had two throat infections several weeks ago. One of which caused a gray exudate on the mucosa, the other of which did not. She is very tall and thin, and she also has a rash on her face. While shooting heroin in the bathroom, she collapses and falls on a spear, which goes directly through her heart, thoroughly destroying it. You go down to the pathology lab later to follow up on this case, because you are a medical student, and your attending sent you down there to stop sucking the life out of his service, and the pathologist tells you that you can only look at his path specimens at a distance of one inch. This pathologist is most likely which of the following?"

A. An *******
B. A graduate of an osteopathic school
C. Really the janitor
D. A question writer for step 1

 

[knuckles]

Hahahaha, E - all of the above

 

[IMGUSMLEStep1]

Glad to know that I'm not stupid for not being good at identifying these either! lol

 

[PokerDoc]

Glad to know that I'm not stupid for not being good at identifying these either! lol

seriously.. I got one on UW this morning when I made this post that sent me into this mini-rant. I was supposed to be able to diagnose mitral valve prolapse from that crap. and by crap i literally was like.. is that a piece of turd in there? what is that?

 

[IMGUSMLEStep1]

seriously.. I got one on UW this morning when I made this post that sent me into this mini-rant. I was supposed to be able to diagnose mitral valve prolapse from that crap. and by crap i literally was like.. is that a piece of turd in there? what is that?

hahahahaha