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First Aid for the® Wards: Fourth Edition (First Aid Series) |  | Authors: Tao Le, Vikas Bhushan, Julia Skapik
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Medical
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Edition: 4
Pages: 556
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Dimensions (in): 10.8 x 8.5 x 0.9
ISBN: 0071597964
Dewey Decimal Number: 616
EAN: 9780071597968
ASIN: 0071597964
Publication Date: October 2, 2008
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Product Description
The perfect primer for the core clerkships written by students who excelled! Don't begin third year medical school without reading this book! Written by students for students, this high-yield guide helps you move smoothly from the classroom to the wards. Thoroughly revised and updated, this comprehensive book explains what to expect in each required rotation and includes sample notes and reports, key facts, formulas, and protocols, and answers to "pimp questions" you will be asked on rounds. - Student-to-student advice on everything from what to wear to how to impress the attending physician
- Know what to expect in every core rotation: medicine, surgery, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, neurology, psychiatry, and emergency medicine
- Advice on presenting cases to attendings
- How-to guides for common procedures
- High-yield facts on the diagnosis and treatment of common diseases
- Sample patient notes, clipboard and note-card patient templates
- Updated student ratings of popular clinical handbooks, reviews, and texts
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Good For the Abbreviations January 30, 2010
Llomara
When you are on the wards the SOAP notes and Progress Notes have many abbreviations. This book was helpful in teaching some common abbreviations used on the floor. The book also gave some general information and tips that were very helpful. I recommend the book.
Good to have September 8, 2009
William Largen
best thing about it is the review of what other books to buy in the back of it. Good to read before a clerkship starts. Certaintly not even close to complete, but I felt more confident going into clerkships and the familiar format as first aid step 1.
 make me a very good start as an intern February 16, 2009
Jie Liu
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I bought this book before I enter my internship. I found this book very down to earth and practical. You can use it as an framework to guide your reading and also can use it as a guide book for your rotation in every department.
Good resource, but possibly redundant May 1, 2008
Intern Year Is Glorious (Northern California)
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
I agree with the other reviewers that when it comes time for each rotation, you probably will end up turning to more focused review books in each specialty.
On the other hand, if you are disciplined enough, this is a great quick read to do before each rotation. It'd be much harder to finish Step-up or impossible to read to Washington Guide in a weekend for internal med! The hard part is motivating yourself to sit down and work during your golden weekend!
Also, I find myself frequently getting bogged down in the nitty-gritty during each rotation and forgetting to get a big picture overview. It's great to read uptodate all the time, but the shelf exams don't really care about the most recent meta-analysis on prophylactic antibiotics for pancreatitis, for example. This is a good book to give you a quick broad-picture overview and make sure you know your basics.
I decided to write this review to give the book credit b/c right now I am doing an Emed rotation without having rotated in Peds. First aid for the wards is giving me just what I need - a QUICK reference on peds. I'm probably going to re-read the surgery part to review abdominal complaints. And maybe the ObGyn part too if I have time.
So, yes, you will get this info in other books. But it is useful. It covers 7 specialties, so even if you don't read three of the sections, you're paying about 10 dollars per specialty. It's up to you if that's worth it.
Oh yeah, other nice perks that I haven't found elsewhere are their "ward tips" sections for each specialty - it tell you the general structure, what attendings expect, etc. Also, at the end it has a database of references/books. This is similar to the back part of First aid for USMLE I. I found it useful to see what other books are out there and how they are rated.
 I'd save the money for other titles. October 29, 2007
logos (ohio)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
I didnt find this book very useful. You'll end up needing to buy the individual books for each rotation, so i'd save the cash and buy those instead. This book really dosent contain much that those dont. I went out and bought it at the start of rotations, looked at it briefly, and shelfed it. There just isnt time to use multiple sources to study. I'd recomend a specific book like Step up or Blueprints for each rotation along with a question book like MKSAP.
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