COMMON PSM (Preventive and Social Medicine) Mnemonics for NEET PG

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Suicide risk factors	SAD PERSONS	Sex: maleAge: young, elderlyDepressionPrevious suicide attemptsEthanol and other drugsReality testing/ Rational thought (loss of)Social support lackingOrganized suicide planNo spouseSickness/ Stated future intent
Pi: value to 31 decimal places	How I want a drink, alcoholic of course, after the heavy chapters involving quantum mechanics. One is, yes, adequate even enough to produce some fun and pleasure for an instant, miserably brief	The number of letters in each subsequent word of these two sentences give the value of pi to 3.141592653589793238462643383279Alternatively: If only want first 6 decimal places, use the sentence “How I wish I could calculate Pi! ”
Informed consent: requirements, exceptions	Sign this DOC before we can start	DiscussionObtain agreementCoercion-free· Exceptions to informed consent are WIPE:WaiverIncompetentPrivilege (therapeutic privilege)Emergency
Hill criteria for causality	Clowns Pursuing Epidemiology’ Commonly Behind The Silly Samples	ConsistencyPlausibilityExperimentationBiological gradientCoherenceTemporalityStrength of associationSpecificity
Cigarette smoke: major carcinogens	PANT	Polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbonsAromatic aminesNitrosaminesTar· Nicotine and Carbon monoxide are Non-Carcinogenic
Diseases for global eradication	Small Person is Mr. Dracula	SmallpoxPolioMeaslesDracunculiasis
Poisson distribution formula	*Formula is: ((m^n) (e^-n) ) / n!**	MNEMONIc: M to the Nth power times E to the Minus nth Over N factorial· Note: the factorial (!) at the end is an inverted lowercase letter i.Accuracy of test: sensitivity vs. specificityseNsitivity of a test: related to the rate of false Negatives.sPecificity of a test: related to the rate of false Positives.· Alternatively written:seNsitive: No Non-Negatives.sPecific: Puny Psuedo-Positives
Alcohol withdrawal effects	SHIrT	Shakes/ Seizures/ Sweats/ Stomach pains (n/v)Hallucinosis (auditory)Increased vitals/ InsomniaTremens (delirium tremens-the lethal part)
Types of Vaccines	STARK	SubunitToxoidAttenuated (live)RecombinantKilled (inactivated)
Antioxidant vitamins	ACE	Vitamin AVitamin C andVitamin E
Diseases caused by Aedes aegypti	Rosy Cheeks, Yellow Dimple	Rift valley feverChikungunyaYellow feverDengue
Live attenuated vaccines	‘ ROME Is My Best Place To go Yet ‘	RubellaOral polio vaccine (OPV)MeaslesEpidemic typhusInfluenzaMumpsBCGPlagueTyphoid oral vaccineYellow fever
Cereals and pulses and their lacking Amino acid	CMPL	Cereals + Pulses = Complete food.Cereals have Methinone and Pulses have Lysine.When it comes to the deficient amino acid, just reverse it.
Passively immunized diseases with antisera	DetecTive BRG	DiptheriaTetanusBotulismRabiesGas gangrene
Vitamin B	The RN Played Barcelona FC	ThiamineRiboflavinNiacin (nicotinic acid)PyridoxineBiotinFolic acidCyanocobalamin
Assessment of Nutritional Status	ABCDEFGH	A : Anthropometric StudiesB : Biochemical StudiesC : Clinical ExaminationD : Diet SurveysE : Ecological surveysF : Functinal StatusGH : Health and Vital Statistics
Polio Virus Strains	OPV	1. type 1: O = Outbreaks of paralytic polio2. type 2: P = Potent antigenic strain3. type 3: V = Vaccine-associated polio
Notifiable Diseases	Yellow CuP	Yellow feverCholeraPlague
The principle of Primary Health Care (PHC):	I ACE	I: Intersectoral co-ordinationA: Appropriate technologyC: Community participationE: Equitable distribution