Creating a plausible and worthwhile differential diagnosis is a challenge for students and new clinicians alike. Even experienced healthcare professionals can get complacent.

We all can benefit from reviewing how we formulate our best differentials in challenging cases. These differential diagnosis mnemonics will help you think through even the most challenging cases. And if that’s not enough, you can always use the awesome artificial intelligence based app VisualDx to help you out.

Medical mnemonics can help you save time and remember important information quickly. Thus, medical students, PA students, and NP students can study smarter by using tried and true methods to formulate comprehensive differential diagnoses that get results.

Not only that, but along with a good board prep question bank, these techniques can help you ace the boards, land your dream job, and become a better clinician.

If you struggle to quickly articulate a differential diagnosis making rounds…

If you’ve ever been stumped in clinic by a patient presentation (though, who hasn’t?)…

And if you’ve tried memorizing everything without making yourself insane…

Then this article is for you. We’ll present three easy-to-remember medical mnemonics that can help you formulate a good differential diagnosis for any condition.

If you want even more, check out this book with hundreds of the most popular mnemonics for the differential diagnosis.