The Nerd's Guide to Pre-Rounding: A Medical Student's Manual to the Wards

ISBN-13: 9780521676755 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 196 str.

Richard A. Loftus; Edward W. Holt; Prasanna Jagannathan

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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.