For The Boards
Link presenting symptoms to the diagnosis, the treatment, and the next steps. Written for internal medicine residents by an internal medicine physician, during residency.
A board vignette never opens with the answer. It opens with a symptom, a vital sign, and a lab value. Books organized by diagnosis train your recall in the opposite direction from the way you’re tested. This one runs the way the question runs.
Not a second curriculum. It’s built for the knowledge you already have, not to reteach medicine from scratch. When a question catches you out, find the scenario and write the lesson in the margin: the mnemonic, the next step, the trap you fell for.
Three years of margin notes turn it into a reference no one else has: highlighted, dog-eared, familiar because you wrote it. In the final weeks you’re not searching a database. You already know what page it’s on.
This book gets revised. Send corrections or additions to [email protected] — if we use yours, you’re credited in the next edition and we donate $5 to Doctors Without Borders.
Each scenario resolves into labeled lines: Dx, Next, Contrast, Trap. No wall of textbook text to mine.
Statin thresholds, PREVENT-ASCVD risk cutoffs, and where one ECG pattern ends and the next begins.
Buy a copy yourself, or equip your whole program.
One printed book, ~200 pages, yours to annotate.
Printed to order · arrives in 2–3 weeks
per resident
One book for every resident in your program, at $50 each.
Printed to order · arrives in 2–3 weeks