To err is human. To actively seek out and fix mistakes is …well, it’s the Picmonic thing to do. If there is one thing that unites all students, it’s a quest for perfection. You have high standards, and we love you for it. At Picmonic, we strive for greatness too and do our very best to get the facts right so that YOU can get them right – both on your exams and in your career. Over the past three months, our incredible team of content experts, academic advisors, medical residents, and student scholars conducted a rigorous and comprehensive audit of the Picmonic library, with a goal of correcting inaccuracies, clarifying areas of confusion, and expanding on popular topics. We’re almost done, and we’ve already updated over 200 Picmonics across our library. Many edits were simple corrections to typos and mispronunciations (try saying “membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis” five times fast). In other cases, we fixed factual errors or updated information to align with recent changes to textbooks and core academic resources. For example, we created a new Picmonic for Salmonella and updated our Salmonella Enterica and Salmonella Typhi Picmonics to include additional information regarding cellular findings and treatments. We also rooted out the trickiest Picmonics and clarified especially dense definitions to make them more comprehensible. For example, we made an entirely new version of the Picmonic for Achalasia so you’ll never get choked up while remembering this GI disorder again. This isn’t a one-and-done process. We are committed to maintaining content of…
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