All Over the Place Type of Questions

These questions are combination of many different facts just thrown in the stem of the question, not in particular order of time, symptoms, vital signs, and physical exam.

What to do: organize the question in time chronological order. Start with a piece of paper first. Put in the middle of the paper the chief complain (usually the first sentence) and additional information about the chief complain. Than, they usually give you some more information about the past medical history. Put it before the chief complain. The rest of the question is usually info about VS, PE, Sx, and Dx procedures. Put them after the chief complain sentence.

Now you have nicely organize question.

When you improve you can stop using the paper and try to do it automatically while you reading the question.

Cheers!