Best pocket surgery reference

[metalmd06]

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Anybody have any suggestions for the best pocket surgery reference? I have recall of course, but I'm really looking for something more like boards and wards that is surgery focused.

 

[Dirt]

It's not widely used but I loved Oxford American Handbook of Surgery.

http://www.amazon.com/Oxford-Americ...4624/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1312121463&sr=8-1

 

[deleted263296]

Surgery Recall was really all I needed. It was perhaps the best book I bought in all of third year. If you are truly interested in going into surgery, then I would recommend the Mont Reid Surgical Handbook. There is a revamp of Pocket Surgery coming out in November.

 

[francisfleming]

US Cancer best hospitals:

University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, TX

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
New York, NY

Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore, MD

 

[SB100]

You can fit Surgical Recall in your white coat. Uncomfortable, but it's possible.

 

[MedStudentLife]

I've personally used this Pocket Surgery reference guide for my clinical rotations. This is absolutely loaded with useful information. And you can't beat the price especially if you do a group order with them! 🙂

 

[MossPoh]

I didn't like surgery recall. It gets a lot of push, but it didn't feel like it was teaching me anything. It depends on your attending's questioning style though. My guy asked management/evaluation and scenario type questions, so a list of 60 factoids didn't really help me much.

Truthfully, I did not really have a true "pocket reference". I had the cards for any progress notes or whatever else and then I'd print off a couple pages of kaplan or a step 2 book for quick reading whenever I got to sat down. My phone got a lot of the random information. I'd also get the list of surgeries for my attending that week and make sure to read up on them with bigger books. I did have one "pocket" book that I can't recall the name of, but the thing was far too big to be in my pocket and I'm 6'5"...