Physician Assistant Exam Review Podcast

In episode 167 of the Physician Assistant Exam Review Podcast, we dive into early pregnancy complications – a tough but essential topic for PA school, EORs, and the PANCE. We cover: Ectopic pregnancy: risk factors, classic presentation, key diagnostics (beta‑HCG + transvaginal ultrasound), and when to choose methotrexate versus surgery. Abortion classifications: threatened, inevitable, incomplete,...

Last night's workshop was so poweful I wanted to share it with you.  We cover the 6 aras where you can either lose or pick up points on your exam you can watch the replay here if you'd like that better. < < Click here for the replay >> ​

Isabella failed her first PANCE attempt by 9 points after cruising through PA school, doing well on her EOC, and grinding through PANCE Prep Pearls and question banks. On her second attempt, she walked into the Pearson center calm, focused, and prepared with a game plan. She didn't just pass. She jumped from a 341 to a 474. In this conversation we walk through: Failing an EOR and then the PANCE, a...

Preconception and prenatal care feels like pure memorization: Folic acid doses Visit schedules Quad screen patterns RhoGAM timing A pile of week ranges that all blur together In this episode, Brian strips it down to what actually shows up on your EORs and the PANCE, and how to connect the facts so they stick. Inside the episode: How to think about prenatal care the way the boards test it, not the...

Pelvic organ prolapse is one of those topics most PA students gloss over in school and then get burned by on exams. In this episode, Brian pulls from 15 years in urogynecology to make uterine prolapse, cystocele, and rectocele simple, visual, and memorable. Instead of memorizing dense definitions, you'll learn to picture the anatomy , understand what's actually happening, and recognize how these c...

Pelvic pain and pelvic masses show up all over your exams. The challenge is not memorizing four separate chapters, it is knowing what to do with the patient in front of you: watch, work up, or get them to the OR. In this episode, we walk through four high‑yield causes of pelvic pain and masses in reproductive‑age women: endometriosis, uterine fibroids (leiomyoma), ovarian cysts, and ovarian torsio...

Episode 162: Vaginal Discharge, Cervical Disease, Sexual Health, and Pelvic Infections on Exams Vaginal discharge questions are "three-line trap" questions: a short stem with just enough detail to mix up BV, candidiasis, and trich. Add cervicitis, PID, cervical cancer screening, Bartholin masses, and inclusive sexual history… and a lot of smart PA students still miss points they don't need to miss...

If you're listening on or before March 25 , doors for the April 33 Days to Pass the PANCE cohort close tonight at 11:59 p.m. Pacific. This episode is different from my usual "tips & tricks" shows. It's a short, straight‑talk walkthrough to help you decide yes or no about joining this cohort so you're not guessing from the outside. In this episode, we cover: Who 33 Days is actually for (and who it...

Failing the PANCE with a 326 after doing "all the right things" is brutal. Taylee walked that road. She graduated from the University of Washington, used all the big-name resources (Smarty PANCE, Kaplan, PANCE Prep Pearls, podcasts, Ninja Nerd), and still failed her first attempt. After taking a month off to breathe, she decided that simply adding more content wasn't going to fix the problem. In t...

From "uncertain, unconfident, and scared" to "confident, assertive, and ready" Madison started 33 Days at the end of didactic year feeling like a lot of PA students do: One exam he's on cloud nine, the next is a 70 and he's thinking, "I'm done for. Maybe I should just quit." Identity completely tied to scores. Anything less than an A felt like proof he wasn't good enough. On top of that, he wasn't...

When a question mentions abnormal bleeding, most people start hunting for the diagnosis. On exams, that's how you miss points. In this episode, we walk through a simple mental checklist for menstrual disorders so you can slow down, see the pattern, and pick the right next step. You'll learn how to: Start every abnormal bleeding question by ruling out pregnancy Sort amenorrhea, oligomenorrhea, meno...

n this episode of the Physician Assistant Exam Review Podcast, we use breast complaints to do two things at once: sharpen your clinical pattern recognition and force you to upgrade how you organize your studying. We walk through the core breast topics that keep showing up on exams: mastitis vs breast abscess, fibroadenoma vs fibrocystic changes, galactorrhea, gynecomastia, and malignant breast neo...

In this episode of the Physician Assistant Exam Review Podcast, we tackle skin integrity from two angles: what you need to recognize on exams, and how to reorganize your studying so you can finally see (and fix) your gaps. We walk through burns, lacerations, pressure injuries, urticaria, pilonidal disease, and the big three skin cancers: basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, and melanoma....

In this episode of the Physician Assistant Exam Review Podcast, we walk through the "Do I worry?" side of derm: how to quickly sort benign vs concerning skin lesions using pattern recognition, not panic. Instead of memorizing every lesion in isolation, you'll learn to organize them into buckets you'll actually see on exams and in clinic: Keratotic lesions: Actinic keratosis vs seborrheic keratosis...

In this episode of the Physician Assistant Exam Review Podcast, we walk through five derm vignettes that show up on high‑stakes exams: melasma, alopecia areata vs telogen effluvium, onychomycosis, paronychia/felon, vitiligo, acanthosis nigricans, and stasis dermatitis. Instead of memorizing another list, you'll learn how to recognize the patterns in the question stem, how to organize these conditi...

In this episode of the Physician Assistant Exam Review Podcast, we tackle one of derm's most intimidating corners: desquamation and vesiculobullous disorders. You'll learn how to quickly separate erythema multiforme, Stevens–Johnson syndrome, and toxic epidermal necrolysis by asking three simple questions: sick or well, mucosa or not, and how much body surface area is involved. Then we contrast bu...

In this episode of the Physician Assistant Exam Review Podcast, Brian talks with Ealum, a PA student who was stuck after three failed PANCE attempts and finally made a 90‑point jump to pass on his 4th try. He had teenage kids at home waiting for life to move forward. He was in Alaska, couldn't attend a single live session, and still used the 33 Days to Pass the PANCE framework to turn things aroun...

In this episode of the Physician Assistant Exam Review Podcast, we take the "dreaded" childhood viral rashes and make them organized, predictable, and testable. Instead of memorizing numbered diseases, you'll learn how to sort exanthems, HFMD, chickenpox, HSV, molluscum, warts, and genital warts by pattern so you can pick the right diagnosis under pressure. We'll cover: Which infant rash appears a...

In this episode you'll learn how to instantly recognize cellulitis, erysipelas, impetigo, fungal rashes, scabies, lice, and common bites so you can pick the right diagnosis and treatment bucket on exam day. • Poorly defined erythema on one shin is either cellulitis or erysipelas. Which one? • Beefy red rash with satellite lesions what's the organism? • Expanding rash after a tick bite, whats' the...

Not just skin facts. How to quickly tell acne from rosacea, folliculitis, perioral dermatitis, eczema, psoriasis, seb derm, and pityriasis rosea on exams so you think different, work different, and score different.

Think different, work different, score different. We're walking through PANCE questions today. We finished GU so this is a solid way to pull it all together. 

Today we close out GU with testicular and urethral disorders.  We also go into some specifics on a poweful, maybe even, life changing method for dealing with anxiety and overhwhelm.    Here are the priming questions Give them a shot   Sudden testicular pain should make you suspect what condition?   Painless scrotal swelling that transilluminates suggests what diagnosis?   "Bag of worms" describes...