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Hi, Thanks to hard work and the advice I got on this forum, i was able to get into a great Psych residency. Thank you all, especially aProgDirector. 😀
I'm not worried about Psych, I love the speciality and read up a lot about it. But the four month Internal Medicine during Intern year scares me.
IM is a weakness, and by far my toughest rotation in med school. I'm not good at reading ECGs, or hearing murmurs.
I never wrote an order on the chart before, never ordered labs, don't know how to dose meds, how to replete sodium, potassium, magnesium, don't know how to run a code, or dose insulin etc. The idea of running a code, or doing complicated procedures scare me.
I am not a fast learner, it takes me a lot of time and effort to master things. Do you guys have any advice?
Are there any books that you found really helpful for this stuff, especially in terms of dosing meds and ordering labs and what not?
I already bought Washington Manual and the Massachetsus Handbook but found the info in the latter really hard to follow (too many abbreviations).
I'm not worried about Psych, I love the speciality and read up a lot about it. But the four month Internal Medicine during Intern year scares me.
IM is a weakness, and by far my toughest rotation in med school. I'm not good at reading ECGs, or hearing murmurs.
I never wrote an order on the chart before, never ordered labs, don't know how to dose meds, how to replete sodium, potassium, magnesium, don't know how to run a code, or dose insulin etc. The idea of running a code, or doing complicated procedures scare me.
I am not a fast learner, it takes me a lot of time and effort to master things. Do you guys have any advice?
Are there any books that you found really helpful for this stuff, especially in terms of dosing meds and ordering labs and what not?
I already bought Washington Manual and the Massachetsus Handbook but found the info in the latter really hard to follow (too many abbreviations).
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