Helpful Resources during Clerkship

Andrew Geisheimer, Class of 2014ageisheimer@qmed.ca

and Eve Purdy, Class of 2015

Outline

• Apps• Websites/Online Resources• Books• NBME Prep• Podcasts• Discipline-Specific– Books– NBME Prep– Podcasts

Disclaimer

• Results may vary• FOAMed

Top 5 Apps

• UpToDate (Free App, Subscription $$$)

• Epocrates (Free)

• MedCalc ($2) or Mediquation ($5)

• MD on Call ($5)

• iPhone Calculator (Free)

Apps – Honorable Mentions

• Medscape (Free)• PEPID (Free)• Pedi STAT ($3)• LabTests ($3)• MedRef ($1)• Gas Guide (Free)• Nerve Whiz (Free)• Surgery 101 ($3)• Prognosis (Free)

Helpful Websites

• UpToDate ($$$)• BMJ Best Practice (Free through Bracken)• Cochrane Library (Free through Bracken)• TheNNT (Free)• Life in the Fastlane (Free) • GMEP (Free) • GoogleFoam (Free)• Guidelines for Me (Free)

Helpful Books - Antibiotics

• Anti-infective Guidelines for Community-acquired Infections ($25)

• Sanford Guide ($21, or $20/yr for App)

• Bugs and Drugs ($22, or $30 for iPad)

• Clinical Microbiology Made Ridiculously Simple ($35-40)

Helpful Books

• Pocket Medicine ($60-70)• Approach to Internal Medicine ($45-50)• JAMA Rational Clinical Exam ($65-70)• Evidence-Based Clinical Diagnosis ($70-75)• The Patient History: An Evidence Based

Approach ($45-50)• Rapid Interpretation of ECGs ($45)

Pocket Medicine

Pocket Medicine

Approach to Internal Medicine

Approach to Internal Medicine

JAMA Rational Clinical Exam

JAMA Rational Clinical Exam

The Patient History: An Evidence-Based Approach

• No good images available

• Great book for Emergency Med or Family Med

Rapid Interpretation of ECGs

• No images available• It’s great and worth

getting

NBME Prep

• Case Files ($30-35)• Pre-Test ($30-35)• Blueprints ($45-50)• (Lange)• (Kaplan)• Surgery – Pestana’s Notes (Free)

Podcasts

• Surgery101 (10-20 min)• ICU Rounds (15-35 min)• EM Basic (20 min) EMCrit if you’re keen (15-35 min)• The Skeptics Guide to Emergency Medicine• OBGYN-101 Gray Haired Notes (10-20 min)• Pedscases.com (10-20 min)• Beyond Anesthesia Board Review (7-15 min)• The Intensive Care Podcast (10 min-1 hr)• The Bugle (For levity!)

Discipline-Specific Resources

• Read around cases!• Ask questions!• Propose plans!

Internal Medicine

• Pocket Medicine• Sanford Guide• Rapid Interpretation of ECGs (Orange Dubin

Book)• Case Files• Pretest• Rounds• ECGPedia (free)

Surgery

• Case Files• Pretest• Pestana’s Notes• Surgery 101 Podcast• Reading Internal Medicine Books

Psychiatry

• Case Files• Pretest• UpToDate• Reading around Neuroleptic Malignant

Syndrome and Serotonin Syndrome• Reading around Pharmacology

• Note: Don’t memorize the DSM!

Peri-Op

• Case Files– Anesthesia and Emergency Med

• Anesthesia– Queen’s Anesthesia Handbook– UMan Anesthesia Handbook

Family Medicine

• The Patient History: An Evidence-Based Approach

• Anti-infective Guidelines for Community-acquired Infections (Orange ABx book)

• Cochrane Reviews• UpToDate• RxFiles ($80)

Pediatrics

• Case Files• Pretest• Blueprints• Online CLIPP Cases• UpToDate• Pediatrics at a Glance

EM

• EM Basic• Life in the Fast Lane• BoringEm (Free)• Academic Life in Emergency Medicine (Free)• Skeptics Guide to Emergency Medicine (Free)• FlippedEM Classroom (Free)

Obstetrics and Gynecology

• TBD – Spring 2014• Case Files/Pretest/Blueprints