🧪 Urinalysis: Stop Just ID’ing Stuff

Hello my Little Gang Of Nasties 😜😈

asked and yall shall receive!

If all you’re doing in UA is memorizing “that’s a cast, that’s a crystal, that’s a cell,” you’re missing the point, and you’re making the exam harder for yourself.

Urinalysis is about translating those findings into the patient’s story.

That means:

Seeing abnormal cells and asking, “What’s happening in this patient’s body right now?”
Matching pH, color, and microscopy results with specific disease processes
Recognizing the pattern, not just the part

💡 Pro tip: Start your UA/Body Fluids study sessions with practice questions based on disease states: glomerulonephritis, pyelonephritis, UTI, kidney stones, etc.

Work backwards from the symptoms and case data → to the results → to the diagnosis.

That’s how you train your brain to think like the exam (and like a real laboratorian).

🚨 If UA/Body Fluids was one of your lowest scoring subjects:

Hammer it.

Do 50 practice questions per day in just that section until your pattern recognition improves.

Repetition is how you rewire your brain to see the correlations instantly.

📊 Use the Urine Crystal Chart I’ve attached to this post to help you connect findings to possible disease processes faster. Keep it pulled up while you do practice questions until it becomes second nature.

💬 What’s one UA-related disease process you keep mixing up?

🫠 Tired of guessing what to study and feeling lost in the process?

Book a 1:1 call with me and we’ll build you a personalized plan that actually works.

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