Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 378
EAN num: 9780838525784
ISBN number: 0838525784
Label: McGraw-Hill/Appleton & Lange
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill/Appleton & Lange
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 492
Printing Date: October 31, 2002
Publishing house: McGraw-Hill/Appleton & Lange
Sale Popularity Level: 317977
Studio: McGraw-Hill/Appleton & Lange
Other books you might be interested in perusing:
Editor's Notes and Comments:
Product Description:
Written by students for students, this high-yield guide helps them make the transition from the classroom to the hospital wards. Thoroughly revised and updated, this comprehensive book explains what to expect in each required rotation and provides sample notes & reports, medical facts, formulas, and protocols. Features the latest student ratings of available review resources.
User popularity level:
Rated by buyers 
-
A great idea - just a few pages dedicated to each discipline which allows for it to be read rather quickly. That book doesn't dawdle on the tiny details, but focuses on the key points needed to succeed without leaving important information.
This book is a great resource for any medical student on rotations! Get it before you start your third year and keep it close until graduation. It will even be helpful as you rotate through your intern year!
Rated by buyers 
-
This book is far from comprehensive. If you only read this book for your clinical rotations, you would without doubt fail the rotation shelf exam, and probably not impress your residents/attendings. The only use for this book was to read before starting a new rotation to get a general overview before proceeding on to read other sources such as the blueprints book.
Rated by buyers -
The best part of this book is the reviews of other books. For each clerkship, a review of books in the categories of textbook, review size book and pocket size books is given. Definitely use their reviews as a guide to the immense amount of shelf and board review material available. The rest of this book consists mostly of description of different clerkships which may be more or less applicable to those at your home institution. I would suggest a quick skim of those areas. If you have this in your medical bookstore or library you may just want to skim the section about the clerkships shortly before it begins and use the review of books to chose reading material.
Rated by buyers 
-
I bought this book at the start of my third year in med school (I'm now MS4). It was useful for just one thing: making me feel less nervous about starting clinical rotations, since it gave me a general idea of what would be expected of me. The most useful parts of the book are the ward tips that give you a feel for the setup of each service. The actual review of relevant topics was pretty poor - too many details to be a broad overview of what you should be learning, but not enough details for you to learn each topic well enough, so you end up reading the same information again in a textbook. Also, once you do one rotation, many of the tips given in the book are useless, since by that time you will have a pretty good idea of what is expected of you and how the wards work. I didn't spend much time on this book once my very first rotation started, and I stopped using it completely during the second rotation.
Rated by buyers -
What I liked best about this book was the sample SOAP/Admit/Orders that they give, plus all the crazy acronyms that they expect you to know. I found it really made me look like a superstar because I would write a "sample note" on an index card and carry it in my white coat. So when it came time for me to write notes, I didn't miss much. Every clerkship has their expectations for note writing and this book is so helpful especially in your 3rd year when you know zippo about how to write good notes. Highly recommended. Plus it gives you a brief synopsis of what each clerkship is about, and for the most part, it is pretty right on.
Find other books like this one:
