High-yield+stereotypes

These are patterns that tend to emerge in board question stems because Step 1 always presents the most typical case. For your enjoyment, and possibly for your benefit in studying.

All 40-year-old African-American women have Sarcoidosis All Middle Eastern women have vitamin D deficiency All Japanese people have gastric adenocarcinoma All South American immigrants have a parasite (neurocysticercosis, Chagas disease) All Eastern European immigrant children have diseases on the U.S. newborn screen All adult Eastern European immigrants have TB All 40-year-old obese caucasian women have gallstones All agressive drug abusers used PCP All young African-Americans have sickle cell anemia Everyone treated abroad for an infection got chloramphenicol and develops aplastic anemia All athletes are on steroids

More can be found here: [|Stereotyping for the USMLE]