Eat when you can, sleep when you can (pancreas)
Anterior thoracic surgery (breast)
Pain in the neck (para/thyroid)
MIS - maximally invasive surgery (Trauma)
There’s a hole in my bucket (hernia)
100
These cells secrete insulin in response to elevated glucose

What are beta cells?

100

This is the recommended follow-up after a mammogram showing a BI-RADS 3 lesion.

What is a repeat study in 6 months?

100
This is the first step in evaluating a thyroid nodule found on exam.

What is a thyroid ultrasound?

100

The steps of the primary survey

What are ABCDE, airway, breathing, circulation, disability, exposure/environment? 

Bonus points for XABCDE (coming in 11th edition ATLS)

100

This is the most commonly injured nerve during open inguinal hernia repair

What is the ilioinguinal nerve?

200

This mucinous lesion communicates with the pancreatic duct and usually requires resection due to risk of malignancy

What is an intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm? (IPMN)

200

This is the preferred treatment for lactational mastitis with abscess not responsive to antibiotics.

What is needle aspiration? (Not incision & drainage)

200

The orientation of the superior and inferior parathyroids in relation to the recurrent laryngeal nerve

What is posterolateral (superior) and anteromedial (inferior)?

200

DAILY DOUBLE

The treatment for a 7 year old with facial trauma in whom an endotracheal tube is unable to be placed

200
The space between the rectus muscle, inguinal ligament, and inferior epigastric muscles

What is Hasselbach’s triangle?

300

These are the three anastomoses performed during a classic Whipple procedure.

What are a pancreaticojejunostomy, hepaticojejunostomy, and gastrojejunostomy? (PJ, HJ, and GJ)

300

This disease process is characterized by a painful cord on the breast.

What is Mondor’s disease?

300

These are the two tumor markers for medullary thyroid cancer.

What are calcitonin and CEA?

300

The treatment for a grade III splenic injury with blush in a hemodynamically stable patient

What is IR angioembolization?

300

The antimesenteric side of the bowel is herniating

What is a Richter hernia?

400

This disease process is characterized by diabetes, weight gain, DVTs, and skin rash.

What is glucagonoma?

400

This is also known as T4d breast cancer

What is inflammatory breast cancer?

400

These are the two options for a Bethesda 4 nodule.

What are molecular testing and lobectomy?

400

The cause of respiratory failure with segmental rib fractures

What is a pulmonary contusion?

400

The appendix is herniated into the femoral canal

What is a De Garengeot hernia?

500

This surgery is performed by coring out the head of the pancreas and performing a lateral pancreaticojejunostomy.

What is a Frey procedure?

500

These are the superior, anterior, posterior, medial, and lateral margins of an axillary nodal dissection.

What are the axillary vein (superior), latissimus dorsi (posterior), pectoralis major (anterior), serratus anterior (medial), and skin (lateral)?

500

This is the cell responsible for secreting parathyroid hormone.

What are parathyroid chief cells?

500

This is when you place a chest tube in the IVC to bypass an injured liver.

What is a Shrock shunt? (atriocaval shunt)

500

This hernia is bordered by the 12th rib, quadratus lumborum muscle, and internal oblique muscle.

What is a Grynfeltt hernia?

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