Pocket references for GMO

[sonofva]

Title says it! What are some good pocket references if I am going to be a GMO/fs in a place that won't have much consultant support or oversight? Thanks

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[BigNavyPedsGuy]

Netter's Concise Atlas of Orthopedic anatomy. ACLS book/algorithm. ATLS book. An uptodate subscription (seriously, even on a ship). A crib sheet of your first options for high cholesterol, For birth control, etc.

Looking back, I CAN'T BELIEVE I was turned loose after just a pediatrics internship

 

[Slevin]

If you are in the army you can get an uptodate subscription through MEDCOM

 

[deleted444089]

It's not pocket size (unless you put the Kindle or Inkling version on your phone), but 'Minor Emergencies' is a fantastic resource for the all too often urgent but non emergent things you can run into during morning sick call, not to mention ER's anywhere.

 

[jabreal00]

Anyone with a DoD CAC can have access to UptoDate. Just google AMEDD Virtual library or use the link https://medlinet.amedd.army.mil/. On the left pane there will be a link for uptodate as well as several medical databases. Once you click on it, you will have to put in your pin for your CAC card and then you get unfettered access to uptodate. I am a medicine subspecialist currently deployed in the role of a GMO. I use uptodate heavily for most of the stuff I see on a day to day basis. It is easier to reference compared to pocket or desk references.

 

[Kingfisher]

Smart phone apps I like:
1. epocrates (a lot of folks like lexicom too, whatever your personal pref)
2. Qx calculate - awesome, i use it 10 times a day
3. ASCCP guidelines - if you have internet access that works too
4. RxSaurus - i dont use it much but I know a lot of folks that do

Books that are a must have:
1. Fracture management for primary care
2. Procedures for primary care

Internet
1. UpToDate - I have my own account so I can get GME from using this. I used to be able to access my own account through AKO doing the same thing but someone realized that there were a bunch of Navy Doctors using it and getting some benefit from this and the fun police swooped in and axed us non-soldiers from further use. (Disclaimer - this was when the Navy was refusing to pay for UpToDate since getting my own account I have not tried logging in through AKO again) things may have changed in the last few years?
2. Google

 

[Gastrapathy]

Way back in the day I found Essential Orthopaedics to be a very useful reference. You don't need pocket guides. You will have the space to stick half a dozen books in with you even as a green-side GMO. Don't count on anything that requires internet access. They still have UptoDate for desktop (i.e. on DVDs). I got my command to buy it for me. It will only be marginally out of date at the end of a 2 year tour.

 

[Kingfisher]

A good derm book like habif is also a must

 

[DoctaJMa]

A Derm Book, Procedures book and UpToDate are necessities

 

[Shikima]

Way back in the day I found Essential Orthopaedics to be a very useful reference. You don't need pocket guides. You will have the space to stick half a dozen books in with you even as a green-side GMO. Don't count on anything that requires internet access. They still have UptoDate for desktop (i.e. on DVDs). I got my command to buy it for me. It will only be marginally out of date at the end of a 2 year tour.

Epocraties should be free via the smart phone app store. Some of these other 'pocket' books could be also available via smart phone usage too...
Thinking out loud of course...

 

[mdmed2012]

I'll echo some of the suggestions above with a few personal preferences.

1) Uptodate - in the rear I use this daily. It is free on all of the USN or USMC computers I have used.
2) epocrates
3) Johns Hopkins antibiotic guide app
4) Fracture Management for Primary Care
5) Essential Procedures for Primary Care - keeping in mind, many of these are beyond our scope as GMOs
6) Sports Medicine Patient Advisor - great for prescribing exercises before jumping to PT

 

[d2305]

A Habif Clinical Dermatology and 5 Minute Consultant books will be helpful. You may or may not have internet access.