Students Edition from Singapore: Ise First Aid Medicine Clerkship (First aid for the clinical clerkship) [Paperback]

Stead (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 2002 | ISBN-10: 0071203494 | ISBN-13: 978-0071203494 | Edition: Singapore ed

No other resource compiles the key data on testing materials and high-yield facts like "First Aid for the Clinical Clerkship Series". Following the best selling "First Aid" format, each book covers three of the most crucial clerkship skills that students must master on these critical exams. How to succeed in the clerkship and impress on the wards? This book offers tips on how to survive the clerkship and do well on the shelf exam. High-Yield Topics covers each core topics students need to know. Classifieds offer links to key web sites and highlight opportunities and scholarships for students looking to specialize.

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

* Succeed in the Clerkship, Impress on the Wards
* High-Yield Topics
* Student-Recommended Resources, Opportunities, Scholarships

INSIDER'S GUIDE TO INTERNAL MEDICINE CLERKSHIP SUCCESS

REAL ANSWERS TO CLERKSHIP QUESTIONS
* The only student-to-student, step-by-step guide to clerkship
* Detailed how-to-succeed and what-to-study guidance from medicine clerkship vets
* Hundreds of recently tested high-yield topics from shelf exams and the USMLE Step 2
* Insider tips for outstanding performance from students who've been there
* "Classifieds" do the research for you, featuring high-yield websites and top extracurricular opportunities and scholarships
* Tear-out cards with essential internal medicine concepts in pocket-ready format

The Student-to-Student Guide
* Discover med students' "secret weapon" for the clinical clerkship
* Get answers to shelf-exam questions from students who passed
* Save time with high-yield topics, mnemonics, and pocket-ready reminders
* Apply the First Aid formula for clerkship success! --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

Latha Stead, MD Senior Resident in Emergency Medicine Brooklyn, NY S. Matthew Stead, PhD (MD in 2001) 4th year medical students SUNY-Brooklyn School of Medicine Brooklyn, NY Matthew S. Kaufman, MD Resident, Long island Jewish Medical Center, New Hyde Park, NY --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 300 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Europe; Singapore ed edition (April 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0071203494
• ISBN-13: 978-0071203494
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,204,043 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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33 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very useful but not by itself, May 18, 2004

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"2005medstudent" (Toledo, Ohio) - See all my reviews

This review is from: First Aid for the Medicine Clerkship (Paperback)

First Aid for the Medicine Clerkship is a great book that gives you the key facts about many diseases. This is information that will help you answer questions during rounds and on exams. It's very well done, with nice illustrations. It's easy to get through, which is important since there's so much to learn during the Internal Medicine rotation (and not enough time!). I also recommend:

1) Practical Guide to the Care of the Medical Patient by Ferri because you need something to help you take care of patients. First Aid for the Medicine Clerkship isn't great for managing patients or working them up

2) Tarascon Pocket Pharmacopoeia because you need something for drug information (if you have epocrates, then you don't necessarily need this). First Aid for the Medicine Clerkship doesn't have much about drugs. Another plus is it's fairly cheap.

3) Internal Medicine Clerkship: 150 Biggest Mistakes because you need something that gives you the nuts and bolts of the rotation. This book tells you how to preround, give great oral case presentations, prepare complete write-ups, and impress during attending rounds. A lot of tips on how to get great evaluations. Not much of this is is in First Aid for the Medicine Clerkship.

4) Access to uptodate or some other medicine reference to help you work up patients.

5) Pretest book - you need to do questions before the shelf exam.

Bottom line is First Aid for the Medicine Clerkship is a great book but you need other things to help you do well during the rotation. Good luck!

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars First Aid for the Medicine clerkship, October 7, 2003

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bears - See all my reviews

This review is from: First Aid for the Medicine Clerkship (Paperback)

The best book I have used in medical so far. Questions I was pimped on during rounds, issues relevent to patient management, weird physical exam findings, strange syndromes (Felty's anyone?)were all covered in this book. I pretty much memorized the whole book, and all my attendings and residents during my medicine clerkship commented that my fund of knowledge was excellent. Everyone gave me honors, and it was literally all because of this book. Probably not adequate enough for the NBME shelf exam however, but combine it with some old kaplan step 2 questions and honoring that should be no sweat either. GET THIS BOOK!

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Foundation for Internal Med, May 3, 2006

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46&2 (California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: First Aid for the® Medicine Clerkship: Second Edition (First Aid Series) (Paperback)

Reading First Aid is a very effective use of time. The book is reasonably long (considering the breadth of Internal Med) and hits the basics for working up various diseases. If there's something in First Aid you don't know, you should know it. First Aid also has side boxes with more obscure pearls of wisdom (e.g., isolated gastric varicies = splenic vein thrombosis) that does get asked by attendings and on tests. Since First Aid is relatively brief and written more in a check-list format, it's much more helpful to analyze it several times than leisurely cover it once. You have to memorize Light's criteria, not simply have a vague idea of it. If I just read this book, I wouldn't like it. Instead, I would cover up knowledge and try to actively recall it.

That said, First Aid is just a foundation. I found Pocket Medicine an outstanding compliment for the wards (EVERYbody had it on Internal Med). It's like a Pocket Doc. If you need further elaboration on a subject, I would use this. Why not just use Pocket Medicine? Well, it's a little too dense/long (although it does fit well in a white coat).

Also helpful are practice questions. MKSAP 2 and 3 for students were good for this. First Aid tends to list the classic signs and symptoms for a disease, but MKSAP shows how board examiners would put it into question form.

In summary, First Aid is a great foundation for an overwhelming rotation. If you like reading texts, Medicine by Fishman et al might be good. I preferred First Aid, though, because I could look at it and not get a headache. I felt confident during my rotation and scored in the 98th percentile on the shelf (though luck is a part of that...)