Book stipend- suggestions?

Looking for suggestions... I'm a CA-1 and we get $150 for books this year, so I wanted to know what would be the best way to spend it!

I have Morgan, and would like to buy baby Miller. I was thinking of buying Secrets. Any other ideas?

Skip Baby Miller and buy the ICU Book. Morgan and Mekhail is superior to Baby Miller. Read M & M from cover to cover. Round out your buying spree with board review book with questions. This is just my opinion.

Cambie

You probably should get a more comprehensive book at this point, but I like the Yao "Anesthesiology problem oriented patient management" when I feel the need to mix it up and look at a different book. Also question books are always nice. The Hall board review is supposed to be good, but they are supposedly coming out with a new, substantially different edition soon, so I was holding off.

Morgan and Makhail will prepare someone starting out for the In-service exam. My program had Miller available on the net. I purchased a copy of Miller and blew over $300. I read one chapter in it, statistics. I will get Anesthesia and Coexisting Disease at some point.Just about everything that was on the ABA exam yesterday was covered in Morgan and Makhail. I suggest that book because it is easy to read and you can go through it several times during your residency.

I was told to pick a source and learn it well, I tried. I don't know what the outcome of my exam will be but I can't blame my source. The charts and graphs in M and M are high yield.

Yao will be a waste of money at this point. The book by Stoelting is a good buy. That's a good reference.

Some of the questions on the board exam were so simple. You just had to remember the mechanism of a drug or its' indication for use. I blew some of those.

Review books with a question and explanation format are high yield. The questions may be different but the concepts keep coming up.

Everything that you want to know is on the net. I needed information about glucagon so I did a search. I was glad that I did.

I understand that this is all just my opinion.

Cambie

anesthesia and coexisting diseases is an excellent book. Yao and Artusio is also a must, but probably more appropriate for later in the year. I personally like Barasch also, others prefer miller. Another excellent book is the Surgical Procedures for anesthesiologists ( I think thats the title, author is Jaffe). Some of the management techniques may not be my choice, but I think its important to know about the procedure and what to anticipate in certain cases.

$150 for books as a CA-1? Do they give you a bunch or books too, or is your program just extraordinarily generous?

Forget the anesthesia texts. Buy Atlas Shrugged. It will change your thinking more than the other books.

So true-- A is A

Gern Blansten said:

Forget the anesthesia texts. Buy Atlas Shrugged. It will change your thinking more than the other books.

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my favorite book too. did you hear that angelina jolie bought the film rights...she probably envisions herself as dagny taggart.

Heh, just posted something similar on another thread.

My Anesthesia library?

Cover to cover reading:
Start with Lange's Clinical Anesthesia and read cover to cover.
Faust - Anesthesiology Review for short snippits of reading up on cases - goal cover - cover.
Anesthesia secrets cover to cover as a good way of quizzing yourself (read question, try to answer then read answer).
Yao and Artusio's Anesthesiology: Problem-Oriented Patient Management - good way to kill time in the OR. Excellent practice for orals.
Board stiff too - light, fun reading in preparation for orals.

References
Boezarart - Anesthesia and Orthopaedic surgery. Great for regional, only book I use (also online sources such as www.NYSORA.com, www.anesth.uiowa.edu/rasci/, www.regionalworks.ca, www.usra.ca)
Jaffe - Anesthesiologist's Manual of Surgical Procedures - good reference source for figuring out what the hell the surgeons doing.
Barash - more in depth reading. Easier for me to read than Miller.
Miller - crazy in-depth. Some chapters good (thorasic) others suck. Majority of MCQ questions on Canadian exam come from this book so I use it as reference but not for everyday reading.
Anesthesia and Co-Existing Disease - nice for reading around cases.
Steward and Lerman - Manual of Pediatric Anesthesia - yes, it's just a handbook but that is all I am using as my peds reference.

Not required to buy.
Chestnut - Sure for the weird and wonderful may be useful but taking your common everyday anesthetic knowledge and applying to pregant patients is not a huge strain. (Umm, pregnant with CAD. Ok, I'll treat you like you have CAD.)
Dorsch - Understanding Anesthesia Equipment. - this puts me to sleep every time. Head to the library if you need it.
Kaplan's Cardiac Anesthesia - good if heading into cardiac. Otherwise just borrow for rotation.

Expensive to buy these books? Sure but I got alot used from Amazon or E-bay. I also was able to claim them on my taxes when I started doing locums so save your receipts.

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