How to be a Truly Excellent Junior Medical Student [Paperback]

Dr. Robert J. Lederman (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 15, 2001 | ISBN-10: 1882742125 | ISBN-13: 978-1882742127 | Edition: 6th

This is the essential guide for the third-year medical student newly embarking upon ward rotations! It's a strange new world out there, and this masterful handbook guides these oft-unprepared students through the maze of stressful duties and bizarre expectations that will be thrust upon them! How to be a Truly Excellent Junior Medical Student is written with cleverness, insight and wit, and is designed to give students the perspective they need to gain the most from their clinical training.

Product Details

• Paperback: 124 pages
• Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers; 6th edition (January 15, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1882742125
• ISBN-13: 978-1882742127
• Product Dimensions: 5 x 3.4 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #354,979 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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30 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Must-read before starting your clinical clerkships!, February 21, 2003

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Khalid Alnaqbi (Toronto, Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: How to be a Truly Excellent Junior Medical Student (Paperback)

Most Junior Medical Students (JMS's) feel intimidated when they begin their clinical year of medical school. You wanna learn how to cope up with this stress? Then buy this pocketbook !
Even though I bought it from Dalhousie University (Halifax) at the end of my junior clinical year, yet it was of great help to me later.

This pocketbook explores the world of the hospital, the role of each member, and how things are done in terms of writing notes, ordering tests, and performing procedures.

In Chapter 1, it introduces the JMS's to how a hospital works: (Outpatient vs. inpatient care, community vs. teaching hospitals, Private & staff patients, Nursing units & specialty services, Physician teams, Getting admitted to the hospital, Night calls, Ward routines from a patient's perspective).

Then the author talks in Chapter 2 about how to do stuff including reviewing a chart, writing orders, medications and prescriptions.

Chapter 3 teaches how to write notes (admission notes, internal medicine daily progress notes, discharge notes, notes for the Surgical care, Obstetrics, Pediatrics, Neurology and Psychiatry).

Chapter 4 focuses on procedures, in terms of preparation, introduction to phlebotomy & IV placement, performing venipuncture, taking blood culture, arterial blood gases, ECG, lumbar puncture, NG tube & Dobhoff placement, placing a urinary catheter, and local anesthesia.

Chapter 5 deals with bedside tests including urinalysis and Gram stain.

Finally Chapter 6 teaches JMS's how to organize their data and schedule, and to make a good presentation.

This pocketbook comes in 124 pages, published by Tarascon Press, in its 6th edition, 2001.

The only drawback I found is that chapter 3 is entirely duplicated twice, at least in my copy. Other than that, I strongly recommend this pocketbook for med students before commencing their clinical clerkships.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very helpful, November 5, 2009

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D. Comeaux "Dr. D" (Saint Louis, MO, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: How to be a Truly Excellent Junior Medical Student (Paperback)

I am a med student in my clinical clerkship year and at first found it difficult to figure out what my role was as a Junior Medical Student. This book helps define your role in the hospital as well as everyone else's role. It also provides a framework for hospital protocol. I wish I would have had this book before my first rotation. After reading it I felt a lot more comfortable about what I am supposed to do. This book should be required reading before starting clerkships - you won't feel so lost and will make a better impression on hospital staff.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I don't know how I could have survived my clerkships without, July 20, 2001

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Fred Fellows (Boston, MA) - See all my reviews

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This book absolutely made hospital life clear to me in those terrifying first weeks of both my medical and my surgical clerkships. I think every single medical student should buy this book this second!