Anesthesiology Review by Faust

[principe]

Now that I feel more adjusted in my prelim medicine year, I've decided to start reading anesthesia to prepare for CA-1. I'm thinking of Anesthesiology Review by Faust, but noticed that the latest edition (3rd) was published in 2001 !! Anyone know when the next edition is coming out, or is the 2001 edition still very applicable to today's practice? Anyone recommend Anesthesia Secrets over this book. I really don't think I'll have time to read 1000+ pages like Miller or Lange because I still want to read on internal medicine subjects.

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[periopdoc]

Kind of hard to review something you haven't learned yet (Faust). Focus on reading the textbooks that are applicable to the year you are in. You will be better served, coming into CA-1 year, to be thoroughly grounded in the basics of medicine than by trying to get ahead of the game and missing out on the stuff that you will not have a chance to learn during your anesthesia training. You are not wasting your time. One of my key instructors was Art Lam and he likes to say, "If you want to know what everyone else knows, read the anesthesia textbooks, but if you want to be a real expert, read what the anesthesia text authors read when they were writing their textbooks and you will know even more." That is why I spend an equal amount of time reading medicine, cardiology, pulmonology, and nephrology texts and literature as I do anesthesia texts and literature.


If you must read an anesthesia text, and I totally understand that you are going to want to, read "Baby Miller." It really will give you the best, most appropriate foundation coming into your CA-1 year.

- pod

 

[panetrain]

I read Faust towards the end of CA1 year. It's too basic as a primary read and too long winded for a quick overview for an intern. During intern year I read the Mass General Handbook for Anesthesiology and pulled a 30 on the first intraining. My buddy read secrets as an intern and pulled a 32 in the first intraining (this was when the ITE was in July). Both are good quick somewhat comprehensive reads for a first time overview of anesthesiology subjects.👍 Read Faust later on in your education (know it cold before the Spring ITE your CA1 year and you will likely pass the exam).

Kind of hard to review something you haven't learned yet (Faust). Focus on reading the textbooks that are applicable to the year you are in. You will be better served, coming into CA-1 year, to be thoroughly grounded in the basics of medicine than by trying to get ahead of the game and missing out on the stuff that you will not have a chance to learn during your anesthesia training. You are not wasting your time. One of my key instructors was Art Lam and he likes to say, "If you want to know what everyone else knows, read the anesthesia textbooks, but if you want to be a real expert, read what the anesthesia text authors read when they were writing their textbooks and you will know even more." That is why I spend an equal amount of time reading medicine, cardiology, pulmonology, and nephrology texts and literature as I do anesthesia texts and literature.


If you must read an anesthesia text, and I totally understand that you are going to want to, read "Baby Miller." It really will give you the best, most appropriate foundation coming into your CA-1 year.

- pod

 

[ngozi]

Hey, I'm reading "Stoelting's Anesthesia and Co-Existing Disease" by Roberta Hines... It's good because it gives a good overview of disease (for step 3 + internship) as well as how it applies to anesthesia management.

 

[CambieMD]

M & M will give you a good basic understanding of what we do as anesthesiologists. I suggest that you read the first 15 or 16 chapters of the book.

Cambie

 

[hoyden]

Now that I feel more adjusted in my prelim medicine year, I've decided to start reading anesthesia to prepare for CA-1. I'm thinking of Anesthesiology Review by Faust, but noticed that the latest edition (3rd) was published in 2001 !! Anyone know when the next edition is coming out, or is the 2001 edition still very applicable to today's practice? Anyone recommend Anesthesia Secrets over this book. I really don't think I'll have time to read 1000+ pages like Miller or Lange because I still want to read on internal medicine subjects.

Get infamous M&M, not Faust. Or baby Miller.

 

[principe]

thanks, will take all your advice and postpone Faust until later. I have $500+ for textbooks this year so I can pretty much get all of the above.

 

[PeepsLove]

The next edition of Faust, I believe is the 4th edition, is due out February 2013, or at least that's what Amazon said.

 

[michigangirl]

Agree, I liked Faust a lot for written boards, but its tough to digest without any context of clinical anesthesia practice. Start in mid-end CA-1 year.

 

[Harrison486]

Hey, I'm reading "Stoelting's Anesthesia and Co-Existing Disease" by Roberta Hines... It's good because it gives a good overview of disease (for step 3 + internship) as well as how it applies to anesthesia management.

In theory, this sounds like a nice compromise between reading for intern year and preparing for our future in anesthesiology.

Do any of you agree? Or is this not the right book for us interns and would we be better of just sticking with Baby Miller?

 

[Sonny Crocket]

In my residency I read baby miller once, m and m twice, and then was all about big blue. I tried faust but really didn't like it. Also read a lot of research articles for didactics. I did not read any subspecialty books.