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Analyze
Review the clinical vignette, ECG, imaging, or point-of-care findings.
🫀 Weekly clinical challenge
Think fast.
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Build confidence in ECG interpretation and clinical reasoning through real-world cases, concise teaching pearls, and collaborative learning. One challenge. Every week.
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This Week’s Shock LIVE CASE
Challenge 6: Sudden dizziness
AV Blocks • Released 8/28/2026
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From first glance to final diagnosis.
Each challenge is designed to help you move beyond pattern recognition and strengthen the way you reason through clinical problems.
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Diagnose
Commit to an interpretation and test your clinical reasoning.
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Learn
Review the explanation, teaching pearls, and key diagnostic clues.
6Internal Medicine residency programs participating across Maryland
1×A new clinical challenge released every week
∞Opportunities to improve diagnostic accuracy and confidence
Our mission
Make clinical education active, collaborative, and memorable.
Shock of the Week brings learners together around authentic clinical cases. We aim to create a welcoming educational community for medical students, residents, fellows, and attending physicians who never want to stop learning.
What you’ll learn
High-yield skills for real-world care.
Build expertise through ECG interpretation, cardiology, echocardiography, and clinical reasoning.
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ECG Interpretation
Rhythm, rate, axis, intervals, ischemia, and advanced pattern recognition.
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Cardiology
Clinical reasoning across acute and chronic cardiovascular presentations.
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Echocardiography
Connect images with physiology and bedside decision-making.
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Clinical Reasoning
Practice generating differentials and prioritizing diagnostic clues.
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Teaching Pearls
Concise, practical takeaways you can immediately apply to patient care.
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Collaborative Learning
Learn alongside residents, faculty, and medical trainees across institutions.
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