(Part 3) Top products from r/medicalschool

MS1 here:

Is she a coffee or tea drinker? If so, there are companies that do some really cool "coffee or tea" of the month deals. I've gone through quite a bit of coffee since I began...

Here are some really awesome books: House of God, Emperor of All Maladies, and Complications to name a few.

I wouldn't recommend getting her a stethoscope/medical supplies because they can be very personal. Sure, they're all roughly the same but it's an instrument you're going to be using for many years to come. "This is my stethoscope. There are many like it but this one is mine..." Just my 2 cents, at least.

I hope that helps! If I come up with any others, I'll post them here.

Everyone basically just goes through the lecture slides +/- random Googling and UpToDate. (Maybe looking at the odd textbook if something is suggested, but usually they're more "reference" books and not great "teaching" books.)

I really wish I had come across this sub sooner (like M1) because having recommendations like Costanzo (physiology), How the Immune System Works, as well as the usual Pathoma, B&B, etc. would have been amazing to supplement lectures that weren't so great.

In terms of what we're really missing out on though, I think the single most useful thing is probably QBanks. It's hard to walk into exams without ever having had practice questions to do before so depending on your goals (like if you want to write Step or not) UWorld / Rx / Kaplan might be something to consider.

I used Anki on and off, but it was honestly really difficult to pick out what details we'd actually be tested on based on our lecture material so it wasn't always a great use of time.

Netter's Atlas if you just want a big book with lots of great drawings of everything.

The text book has all the background information and clinical correlations, but often not as many, or smaller images. Netter's Clinical Anatomy is good if you want something a bit slimmer and simpler that still has all the basic anatomy. If you want something more beefy I highly recommend Moore's Clinical Oriented Anatomy. It's a big book, but it has everything in it you could want.

Netter's Atlas

Netter's Clinical

Moore's Clinically Oriented Anatomy

I've done that Coursera course too and thought it was really good. I also recommend the book Make It Stick if you want a good overview of the science behind successful learning and how to apply the findings in the real world.

If you want to get a book (which is generally cheaper than courses), I've read this one and it is good:

http://www.amazon.com/Medical-Spanish-Fourth-Bongiovanni/dp/0071442006/ref=sr_1_6?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1453634368&sr=1-6&keywords=medical+spanish

I also think the most important things to do are:

1. Use multiple senses - talk out loud, listed, and read
   
2. Interact with other speakers, even if you're scared
   
3. Make a schedule and stick to it
   
   You could spend only 15 min a day and still progress if you're committed. Good luck!

I have the perfect book for you my friend.

The Patient History: Evidence-Based Approach (Tierney, The Patient History)

https://www.amazon.com/Patient-History-Evidence-Based-Approach-Tierney/dp/0071624945/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1465792447&sr=8-1&keywords=the+patient+history

It has flowcharts for many common presenting symptoms, including even super broad ones such as "fever" or "headache." Abnormal vaginal bleeding flowchart is on page 512, jaundice is on page 382.

Maxwell's is a must.

These clipboards are also extremely useful on the wards.

Towards the end of my third year I began to REALLY value my kindle. The 6" e-ink one fits easily in a white coat pocket. You can upload pdfs (i.e. relevant papers) and books to study from (i liked pretest).

Know you asked for links but this book
http://www.amazon.com/Only-Book-Youll-Ever-Need/dp/1451119054 is amazing. I learned all my foundation of ecg with this one. Highly recommend it

this was by far the easiest nbme of my first year.
yes, it does cover a lot of cell bio but i don't remember using anything else other than BRS and Pretest to study for it.
i had a pretty solid cell bio background though, so that may have been it. but generally speaking everyone in my class passed the shelf without problems.

Practicing will obviously work the best, maybe volunteer at a clinic more likely to have spanish patients?

I think this is the most helpful medical spanish book: http://www.amazon.com/Medical-Spanish-Fourth-Bongiovanni/dp/0071442006/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1464016441&sr=8-6&keywords=medical+spanish

"How the Immune System Works" is a concise book that provides a great overview of immunology. It was the only immunology resource that actually made things click for me!

https://www.amazon.com/How-Immune-System-Works/dp/1118997778/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1526224656&sr=8-1&keywords=how+immune+system+works

http://www.amazon.com/Emperor-All-Maladies-Biography-Cancer/dp/1439170916/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1458615678&sr=1-1 Emperor of All Maladies is a great biography of cancer :) it's basically the history of cancer, really excellent.

Also any New Yorker articles and books by Atul Gawande - my favorite books by him are Complications and Being Mortal. There's also a great (albeit really sad, warning you) Frontline documentary based on Being Mortal - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/being-mortal/

Another interesting Frontline documentary is The League of Denial - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/league-of-denial/ it's a documentary about the neuropathologist that Will Smith played in the recent movie Concussion and the real story with the NFL behind that movie.

The movie "Wit" with Emma Thompson is also a fantastic movie but it's incredibly depressing (she plays a professor with stage 4 cancer) and it's about her stay in the hospital. Couldn't stop crying when I saw this movie lol.

One of the most important things about the first 2 years of medical school is that you need to learn how YOU study. Everyone is different, what works for one of your friends may not work for you. Some people are note writers, some people type everything, some people are flashcard users, etc

This is the last time you will have this kind of free time to invest, during your 3rd year and beyond you will be dealing with clinical responsibilities so you will not have a lot of time to study inefficiently.

For me flashcards were absolutely useless, I'm very good at pattern recognition so I could make flashcards and get 95% correct but that information was only superficial. What worked for me was review books. I couldn't study from textbooks because of boredom, and lectures did not provide enough detail for me to learn.

I read Lippincot Renal Review cover to cover when I was a second year medical student and since then for every single test renal electrolyte imbalances has always been my highest section on stadandized testing.

https://www.amazon.com/Renal-Pathophysiology-Lippincott-Williams-Wilkins/dp/1451173385/ref=pd_sim_14_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=5Y2VR1940P53D8HK5SW7


Again what worked for me, may not work for you, so its important to try new things. Whatever you do, DON'T do the bare minimum. Also man up, put your ego aside and ask for help. Its better to ask for help now instead of after you have failed.

Just to be specific, this one, not First Aid for Step 1. The latter is good too, but the former really is much better -- esp for child psych, psychopharm, and therapy.

I found the Lippincott microcards really useful for getting a sense of organization and key points, and also as a general review/learning tool. They also include clinical scenarios which help hone in on some of the ways patients can present (our exams were heavily clinical case based). I also highly recommend micro made ridiculously simple, as was mentioned.

Here's a link here

yes they are. That's why I'm pretty desperate to find a way to lock them into my memory. Here you go. Amazon UK for your convenience.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Macleods-Clinical-Diagnosis-Alan-MBChB/dp/0702035432/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1394311545&sr=8-1&keywords=macleod+clinical+diagnosis

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Patient-History-Evidence-Based-Approach/dp/0071624945/ref=sr_ob_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1394311514&sr=8-1

These are EXCELLENT books. I bought both.

Cardiovascular: http://www.amazon.com/Pathophysiology-Heart-Disease-Collaborative-PATHOPHYSIOLOGY/dp/1605477230

Nephrology: http://www.amazon.com/Renal-Pathophysiology-Lippincott-Williams-Wilkins/dp/1451173385/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1412406478&sr=1-1&keywords=renal+pathophysiology

https://www.amazon.com/12-Lead-ECG-Interpretation-Garcia-Introduction/dp/0763773514/ref=dp_ob_title_bk
great book, goes through each wave step by step. lots of example EKGs in the book that reflect what they're trying to teach you in the chapter.

Im not a med student (respiratory student) so I'm not sure if this is quite what you are looking for - but I bought this book during my vent class and found it to be quite useful.

The best option is this book(i read it on an ipad, does that count?)

the only ekg book you'll ever need

I know youre not after a book, but this is written in a fun way, i accidentally read the whole thing..

The Rational Clinical Examination: Evidence-Based Clinical Diagnosis, edited by David L. Simel, MD, MHS, and Drummond Rennie, MD

https://www.amazon.com/Rational-Clinical-Examination-Evidence-Based-Diagnosis/dp/0071590307

If you want to learn more this book will be helpful!

http://www.amazon.com/The-Rational-Clinical-Examination-Evidence-Based/dp/0071590307

Rohen's shows you the real thing in detail (as opposed to Netter's, which has drawings). Not during procedures, so it's extra helpful for studying anatomy!

Read the book Make It Stick. Seriously. It will change your understanding of how memory and learning work, and make you a better medical student. https://www.amazon.com/Make-Stick-Science-Successful-Learning/dp/0674729013

Like the other commenter says, you don't really need to buy a book to get that information, but if you want to, Moore's Clinically Oriented Anatomy is probably closer to what you're looking for.

Lippincott's Microcards, you can find them on Amazon. http://www.amazon.com/Lippincotts-Microcards-Microbiology-Harpavat-Edition/dp/145111219X/ref=dp_ob_title_bk.

The Ventilator Book is a solid introduction and is readily accessible to 3rd and 4th year med students.

I guess the images are taken out from this Anatomy: A Photographic Atlas (Color Atlas of Anatomy a Photographic Study of the Human Body)

Buy her her own personal Netters instead

Netter's will probably be used by most

• Maxwell Quick Medical Reference
  
  
• WhiteCoat Clipboard
  
  
• Multiple small notebooks
  
  
• Pen light
  
  
• Cheap decoy pens for the attending who asks to borrow one and never returns it

by Garcia.
http://www.amazon.com/12-Lead-ECG-Interpretation-Garcia-Introduction/dp/0763773514/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1421422006&sr=8-1&keywords=12+lead+ekg&pebp=1421422010179&peasin=763773514

Ortho Essentials

https://www.amazon.com/New-Encyclopedia-Modern-Bodybuilding-Updated/dp/0684857219

For example:
http://www.amazon.com/Anatomy-Histology-Cell-Biology-Self-Assessment/dp/0071623434/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1422159810&sr=1-3&keywords=pre+test&pebp=1422159816632&peasin=71623434

Case Files Paediatrics: http://www.amazon.com/Case-Files-Pediatrics-Fourth-LANGE/dp/0071766987

or

Core Clinical Cases in Paediatrics: http://www.amazon.com/Core-Clinical-Cases-Paediatrics-problem-solving/dp/0340816686

may be similar to 250 Cases in clinical medicine.

• Casefiles Pediatrics
  
• Casefiles Ob/Gyn

literally, case files series.

here's IM as a preview: http://www.amazon.com/Files-Internal-Medicine-Fourth-Edition/dp/0071761721

The "Case Files" frequently read for Shelves and Step 2 prep, are those the Lange Case Files? Thank-you.

https://www.amazon.com/Files-Internal-Medicine-Fourth-LANGE/dp/0071761721

Oh right, sorry. First Aid Psych is a standalone book, NOT the psych chapter out of first aid for step 2.

This is what I'm referring to.