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AI Med Tutor Podcast
by AI Med Tutor Podcast
The AI Med Tutor Podcast helps medical students study smarter—not longer. Hosted by Dr. Randy Clinch, family medicine physician and medical educator, each episode shares proven strategies, AI-powered tools, and practical tips for mastering board exams like COMLEX-USA and USMLE. Whether you're aiming high or bouncing back, this podcast is your go-to resource for focused, efficient learning.
Episodes
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The Repair Check: Retrieve, Transfer, Perform
Repeatedly missing questions after studying? Dr. Randy Clinch and Maya Brooks introduce the Repair Check: assess whether you can retrieve, transfer, and perform—and choose a more targeted next step.
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Choosing Your Next Best Study Move
Learn how to make the next best study move every evening. Dr. Clinch and Maya Brooks share a 3-step decision framework to diagnose your learning needs, choose the right task, and define success.
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Building a Rotation Learning Plan for Core Clinical Rotations
Learn a reusable 4-week rotation study plan: decode requirements, choose resources, build content knowledge, use questions, repair weak spots, and peak for the shelf exam.
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Don’t Let Q-Bank Percentages Diagnose You
Use q-bank scores as signals, diagnose content vs reasoning vs mechanics problems, then choose the smallest repair and retest.
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Your Rotation Is Your Board Prep: How to Prepare for COMAT and Shelf Exams
Learn how to turn each rotation into exam prep by using question banks early, shifting from teacher to simulator, and carrying forward key patterns.
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Doing the Work but Not Improving: Fix the Learning Loop
Why activity alone doesn’t improve scores—and how to diagnose, repair, and retest your study process for better results.
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Build a Board Prep Plan That Learns From Your Performance
Learn to personalize Level 2 or Step 2 prep with performance data: collect, interpret, prescribe, test, and adapt your study plan.
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Pattern Cards: Turn What You’re Learning Into What You’ll Recognize Later
Learn how to use Pattern Cards to build pattern recognition, repair weaknesses, and prepare smarter for Step 2 and Level 2.
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After a Step 2 Failure: Make Rotations Part of the Comeback
Use clinical rotations to diagnose gaps, repair weaknesses, and prove progress after a COMLEX Level 2 or USMLE Step 2 failure.
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The Rotation Reset: Carry Forward What Matters
Learn a simple end-of-rotation reset to retain key patterns, fix recurring mistakes, and maintain knowledge for future rotations and Step exams.
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One Rotation at a Time: Building Toward Shelf, COMAT, and Boards
Use primary, maintenance, and repair layers to turn each rotation into Shelf, COMAT, and Step 2/Level 2 prep without adding a separate study plan.
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Still Below Your Benchmark? Focus Your Prep Where It Matters Most
How to recover after a below-benchmark practice score: find the signal, diagnose the bottleneck, repair precisely, and prove improvement.
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Right Answer, Wrong Reason? Think Like a Clinician
Learn why getting the diagnosis right isn’t enough—build stronger clinical reasoning by comparing alternatives, avoiding anchoring, and reviewing how you think.
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Thinking Like a Clinician: Making Learning Last All Year
How to sustain a clinical learning system all year, use uncertainty productively, review patterns, teach others, and grow into a better clinician.
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The 90-Minute Clinical Learning System
A practical 5-step evening routine for clinical learners: capture, practice, repair, review, and prepare—using patients, pattern cards, and AI questions.
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From Patients to Questions: Use Question Banks Wisely
Learn why question banks are for assessment, not first-pass learning, and how AI can create targeted retrieval practice after clinic.
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The Rule of One: Learning from One Patient Each Day
How third-year medical students turn patient encounters into durable clinical patterns using illness scripts and Pattern Cards.
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Illness Scripts: The Clinical Reasoning Tool for Third-Year Rotations
Learn how illness scripts turn facts into patient patterns, sharpen differential diagnosis, and improve board performance during clinical rotations.
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Burned Out but Still Preparing: Sustainable Board Prep
How to structure dedicated board prep with minimum viable, standard, and stretch days while protecting energy, questions, review, and recovery.
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Clinical Rotations as Board Prep: Turn Encounters Into Pattern Cards
Use patient encounters to build Pattern Cards, reinforce recall, and prep for COMAT and Level 2 without extra study hours.
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Biostats and Ethics Without the Panic
A minimum effective dose strategy for mastering biostats and ethics with short question sets, micro-rules, and retesting.
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Content Review or Productive Procrastination?
Learn when content review fixes real gaps and when it becomes avoidance. Use precision review, time caps, and retesting to improve question performance.
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Final Two Weeks: Keep, Drop, and Stay Steady
A focused guide for the last 10-14 days before exam day: keep timed questions, drop new resources, and use data-driven retests to stay calm.
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Interleaving Look-Alike Questions for Better Clinical Reasoning
Learn how to build mixed question workouts around look-alike diagnoses to sharpen discrimination, find hinge clues, and improve board prep.
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After a Bad Block: Recover, Find the Signal, and Reset
Learn how to respond to a bad question block with calm review, signal-finding, and targeted fixes instead of panic or rewrites.
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Smart Block Review: The 4-Step Workflow for Board Exam Success
Stop wasting hours on review. Learn a 4-step workflow to tag questions, capture high-yield takeaways, and use retesting to upgrade your performance on COMLEX and USMLE.
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From Learning to Performance: The Dedicated Pivot
Learn how to use random timed blocks as diagnostics, fix leaks with focused sets, and track progress with Pattern Cards and a Miss Log.
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Using COMSAE Phase 2 Reports to Study Smarter for COMLEX Level 2
Learn how to turn COMSAE Phase 2 score reports into a focused study plan using qbank analytics, item review, and targeted retesting.
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The 15-Minute Weekly Reset for Dedicated Study
Learn a simple Sunday reset to find leaks, choose primary/secondary/maintenance buckets, schedule retests, and start Monday with clarity.
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Build 10-Question Mini-Quizzes with OpenEvidence
Learn how to turn qbank gaps into targeted practice using OpenEvidence, NBME-style item-writing rules, and verification tips for smarter board prep.
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Stop End-of-Block Panic: A Smarter Timed Question Workflow
Bonus Episode - Learn a repeatable system for timed blocks: read the task first, avoid distractors, mark strategically, and protect working memory for better pacing and accuracy.
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Pharmacology That Sticks: Pattern Cards and Why Chains
Learn a simple system for pharm recall: drug-class Pattern Cards, one-sentence why chains, and targeted question-bank retests for Step 1 and COMLEX Level 1.
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Mastering Next-Step Questions: A 4-Step Framework for Smarter Clinical Decisions
Learn a practical 4-step decision framework to improve accuracy on next-step questions in board prep and clinical rotations, bridging knowledge to action effectively.
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Mastering Miss Logs: A Simple System to Capture and Retest Exam Mistakes
Learn how to use your question bank Notes to create a searchable Miss Log. Capture, retest, and own your learning with a quick, easy 3-step system for better study habits.
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Rehab Your Weak Topics: Diagnose, Repair, Retest for Board Exam Success
Struggling with weak medical topics? Learn a targeted 3-step rehab plan—Diagnose misses, Repair precisely, and Retest thoroughly—to boost your scores and clinical skills.
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Designing Your Daily Engine: A Three-Block Study Template for Dedicated Exam Prep
Discover a simple, science-backed daily template with three focused blocks for retrieval, targeted repair, and spaced reinforcement. Build a sustainable routine that boosts exam performance without burnout.
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Mastering Question Banks: Strategic Modes for Smarter Board Prep
Discover how to use tutor, timed, random, and targeted modes effectively to improve learning, pacing, and retention with your question bank. Match modes to goals for efficient board exam prep.
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Mastering Misses: A Smart Triage for Step 1 & COMLEX Level 1 Success
Learn how to diagnose and fix missed questions with a quick triage of mechanics, content, and reasoning gaps. Apply precise fixes for smarter, targeted studying.
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Mastering Efficient Step 1 or Level 1 Study Planning
Learn a practical system to rank high-yield topics using Impact, Deficit, and Integration Value. Discover how interleaving and focused question sets boost retention and confidence on exam day.
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Build a Data-Driven, Sustainable Study Plan for COMLEX & USMLE Success
Learn a 5-step personalized study plan with AI Med Tutor to boost recall, confidence calibration, interleaving, wellness, and weekly data feedback for smarter, not harder, exam prep.
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Active Learning Techniques for Videos & Podcasts: Boost Medical Exam Recall
Discover simple strategies like pausing to say back, predicting content, using anchors, and micro-quizzing to turn passive watching and listening into active studying for board exams.
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Mastering Missed Questions: Fix Test-Taking Mechanics with Task-Pattern-Hinge-Fix Loop
Learn how to identify and fix common test-taking mechanics—task confusion, anchoring, hinge clues, answer traps, and time management—to boost your exam accuracy without extra study.
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Mastering Clinical Reasoning: How to Speak Your Thought Process on Rounds
Learn five practical language frames to overcome freezing on rounds, express uncertainty professionally, and sound like a confident, thoughtful clinician in training.
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Avoiding False Confidence: Clinician-Style Review for 'Lucky Correct' Answers
Learn how to spot and review lucky correct answers with a three-step clinician method to build confident, reliable clinical reasoning for exams and rotations.
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5 Thinking Traps That Sabotage Med Students: Fix Your Clinical Reasoning
Learn five common thinking traps—anchoring, premature closure, salience bias, misreading stems, and pattern mismatch—and practical fixes to improve exam and clinical decision-making.
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Beat Resource Overload: Master Medicine with Fewer, Focused Tools
Discover how to stop juggling endless resources. Learn to choose 2-3 core tools with clear roles for effective study and improved clinical reasoning.
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Mastering Clinical Reasoning: Turning Missed Questions Into Powerful Learning Tools
Learn how to transform missed questions into effective Pattern Cards that boost clinical reasoning and board success with Dr. Randy Clinch and AI co-host Maya Brooks.
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Mastering Board Prep with TrueLearn: Study Smarter, Not Harder
In this episode, Maya Brooks and Dr. Randy Clinch explore how to maximize board exam prep using TrueLearn's powerful features. Discover customization, analytics, peer benchmarking, and innovative learning science techniques like Smart Text that help medical students study efficiently and...
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Mastering Clinical Reasoning: Building Confidence on Medical Rotations
Learn how to develop clinical reasoning skills through real patient encounters, reflection, and Pattern Cards to think like your attending and excel on clerkships.
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Transform Your Medical Study Habits: From Struggle to Effective Learning
Discover why common study habits fail and learn practical, AI-backed strategies like active retrieval, Pattern Cards, and structured review to boost memory and confidence.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
The AI Med Tutor Podcast helps medical students study smarter—not longer. Hosted by Dr. Randy Clinch, family medicine physician and medical educator, each episode shares proven strategies, AI-powered tools, and practical tips for mastering board exams like COMLEX-USA and USMLE. Whether you're aiming high or bouncing back, this podcast is your go-to resource for focused, efficient learning.
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