Never Forget Differentials

🧠 Remember more differentials!

Improve your exam performance and clinical reasoning skills.

Whether you’re in an exam, an OSCE, or being quizzed by an intimidating consultant, having a system to recall your differentials is the cornerstone skill of clinical decision-making.

Differential lists help guide all parts of your work-up, from the questions you ask in your history, to the investigations you request, to the notes you document. It’s a critical skill that will help you master your medical exams, and one which you’ll continue to strengthen throughout your career.

⚡ Master your active recall!

I’ve created this guide to help you master you differentials:

✅  Simple Differential Categorisation: Make it easier to recall differentials for important conditions under pressure.

✅  Dual-Encoding: Both written and visual mnemonics to lock the categorisation systems into your memory.

✅ High-Yield Vignettes: I’ve crammed this guide with high-yield, ultra-concise summaries of each condition, outlining the classic diagnostic features to differentiate diagnoses for your medical exams

 🚨 This high yield study guide is A5 sized - perfect to carry around at your placements!

🙌 High-yield presentations!

1. Headache
2. Confusion
3. Syncope
4. Neck Lumps
5. Chest pain
6. Shortness of breath
7. Cough
8. Haemoptysis
9. Dysphagia
10. Upper GI bleed
11. Nausea and vomiting
12. Shock
13. Jaundice
14. Abdo pain
15. Constipation
16. Diarrhoea
17. Lower GI bleeding
18. Poor urinary output (AKI)
19. Haematuria
20. Groin lumps
21. Acute joint pain
22. Unilateral swollen leg
23. Peripheral Oedema
24. Surgical sieve