Audition rotation books

[gators21]

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Anyone have any ideas on what is a good text for 4th years auditioning? Is Sabiston or Greenfield a little too much for a 4th year medical student or should I just pony up and buy them. I know a lot of places I'm rotating at have them in a library, but I kinda want my own book to highlight and get familiar with. Surgical recall is way too basic now for the pimp questions I've been getting. I really need something with classifications, procedures, ect.
Also anyone recommend a good pocket companion for surgery? I've heard about the ABSITE review pocket (http://amzn.com/1451186908) being good but just wondering if any other opinions on it. I've also heard the pocket surgery (http://amzn.com/1451112963) isn't good. Thanks

 

[Winged Scapula]

Moving to Clinical Rotations.

FWIW, Sabiston/Greenfield are definitely too much to purchase at this point.

Fiser's ABSITE review is for the annual in training examination; if you're definitely going into surgery, its nice to have to start reviewing with next year. It doesn't really give you details on procedures. The pocket books usually recommended are Washington Manual, Mont Reid, Surgery On-Call.

If you want more detail on procedures, Skandalakis is very dense; Chen's Illustrative Handbook is much more manageable; Operative Dictations in General and Vascular Surgery won't give you indications, etc. but will "talk" you through the procedure and then of course, there's always Zollinger's Atlas.

 

[SouthernSurgeon]

For general reading - I'd suggest Cameron (fairly short chapters, not as dense as Greenfield's).

For preparing for cases - I'd check out ACS Surgery: Practices and Principles. Their procedure descriptions are probably a little light for a resident (i.e. it's no Mastery of Surgery), but good for a med student preparing for cases.

I'd skip anything to do with the ABSITE - it's not relevant to your sub-I.

Surgery on-call or Washington manual will be useful if you are expected to take floor call/manage floor patients. Some sub-I's have more OR time and others more floor time.