KYSATS Medical Equivalence Examination - independent clinical foundations cheat sheet
KYSATS Medical Equivalence Examination - independent clinical foundations · Keep the key ideas within reach.
Internal medicine: physiology, differential diagnosis and clinical priorities
Integrate chronology, stability, examination and investigations.
Separate chronic disease-modifying therapy from immediate decompensation care.
Use risk scores and laboratory patterns within their defined assumptions.
Do not turn a disease label into an unassessed fixed prescription.
Surgical assessment, trauma and anatomical complications
Distinguish a stable diagnostic workup from urgent instability or source-control concerns.
Painful irreducibility and deterioration raise concern beyond an uncomplicated hernia.
A negative focused trauma ultrasound does not exclude every injury.
Palpable pulses do not rule out compartment syndrome.
Pediatric reasoning: development, illness severity and age-specific assessment
Use age, growth trajectory and more than one developmental domain.
Assess the full dehydration and danger-sign pattern.
A neonatal bilirubin value needs age-in-hours and risk context.
A simple febrile seizure differs from focal, prolonged or recurrent concerning events.
Clinical anatomy, physiology, pathology and pharmacological mechanisms
Keep working-myocyte and nodal electrophysiology distinct.
Check acid-base compensation and calculation conventions.
Apply surgical anatomy to the actual neighboring structures.
A drug mechanism is not a complete prescribing decision.