Synopses & Reviews
This how-to guide for third year medical students moving from the classroom to the clinical/hospital setting, deals with a particularly stressful transition in a student-physicians career. The handbook is made up of short, easily digestible passages that advise students on everything from reading an EKG or chest x-ray to tips on dealing with ornery residents and what to wear on wards. Passages are peppered with light hearted anecdotes, The book contains appendices of useful information, including a PDF file of full size forms that can be accessed from our website.
Synopsis
How-to guide for medical students transitioning to clinical duties.
About the Author
Richard A. Loftus is an Internal Medicine/ AIDS Fellow at San Francisco General Hospital, University of California San Francisco School of Medicine.
Table of Contents
1. Warning: career ahead; 2. The job of the medical student; 3. Job performance: the big ten; 4. Gear down: white coats, stethoscopes, and other fashion accessories; 5. Pre-rounding and scut basics; 6. Knowledge management: if I only had a brain ...; 7. Pimping and the art of self-defense; 8. Presentations: 'Here there Be Dragons'; 9. Making the grade: emotional intelligence trumps all; 10. Team management for the MS3; 11. Morale management; 12. Soapbox - physicians and the snare of egoism; Acknowledgements; Appendix 1: Tasty bits - good things to know up front; Appendix 2: Dispo dancing; Appendix 3: Patient data collection card templates; Appendix 4: Daily progress note template; Appendix 5: The (don't) panic pages: for the Sub-I; Appendix 6: Eliciting the code status: a very important job that we doctors do very badly; Appendix 7: Personal finance for the medical trainee; Appendix 8: Using pubmed.