Sometimes residency looks like teaching first-year medical students how to perform a physical exam, including mnemonics to help remember where to listen for murmurs on the chest, and the order in which the heart valves close.
These are the heart valves (an oldie but a goodie):
All = Aortic valve
Physicians = Pulmonic valve
Take = Tricuspid valve
Money = Mitral valve
This is the order in which they close (I wrote this one!):
My = Mitral valve
Teeth = Tricuspid valve
Are = Atrial valve
Pretty = Pulmonic valve
And then you smile, because you got it right!
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