Book selections for incoming interns

[PsychFuture]

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I am trying to put together a book list for my incoming intern class. With access to online resources like UptoDate, the APA website, Micromedex and thumb drives I am having a hard time coming up with actually textbooks that would be appropriate. Does anyone have favorites that they would want to share with the incoming class?

 

[OldPsychDoc]

Motivational Interviewing, Miller & Rollnick

 

[Doc Samson]

Massachusetts General Hosptial Handbook of General Hospital Psychiatry by Stern et al - though be warned, there is a new edition due later this year.

 

[PsyDGrrrl]

Guilford Press has a multitude of great books, mostly geared towards psychologists but many are applicable to psychiatry as well, particularly psychiatrists who want to know more about non-pharmacological therapies. There's a whole series of "Handbook of ---" like Schizophrenia, Depression, Attachment, PTSD, you name it.

Also, Introduction to Neuropsychology by J. Graham Beaumont.

 

[califdoc]

If I were going to read one book as an intern, it'd be Approach to the Psychiatric Patient. I thought it was terrific, and so did my wife who's an academic but not a psychiatrist. It consists of 10 essays on each of 10 cases (hence 100 essays), and the book reads sort of like a set of short stories--I havent seen anything better.

http://www.appi.org/book.cfm?id=62300

 

[mathilda25]

Are there any pocketbooks that are useful - to carry with you on the wards?

 

[billypilgrim37]

Are there any pocketbooks that are useful - to carry with you on the wards?

Oxford American Handbook of Psychiatry - for quick gen psych topics

Handbook of Psychiatric Drug Therapy (new edition out in August!)

And just a standard drug book. And the MGH Pocket Medicine book.

If you have more pockets than that, you should just buy new pants.

 

[psychmatch]

If you have more pockets than that, you should just buy new pants.


Ha ha. What if we wear skirts to work-a lot of them don't have pockets so we can't carry a single pocket book then?!
What's a quick review for neuro rotations? Also,what does an intern read for the PRITE?

 

[Thorazine]

how do you get around the whole "no white coat" policy. do they make these books as necklaces? seriously though, where do you put all this stuff if you dont have a giant coat?

 

[OldPsychDoc]

how do you get around the whole "no white coat" policy. do they make these books as necklaces? seriously though, where do you put all this stuff if you dont have a giant coat?

Implantable microchips.

 

[Thorazine]

Implantable microchips.

excellent! cant get any more convenient than that 😀

 

[Pershing]

how do you get around the whole "no white coat" policy. do they make these books as necklaces? seriously though, where do you put all this stuff if you dont have a giant coat?

Just curious about the whole "no white coat" rule. I'm sure this is commonplace in the ambulatory setting, but how does this rule vary from place to place in the hospital/inpatient setting? It would be interesting to hear about the rules/unspoken rules of specific programs/hospitals people know about.

 

[Thorazine]

Just curious about the whole "no white coat" rule. I'm sure this is commonplace in the ambulatory setting, but how does this rule vary from place to place in the hospital/inpatient setting? It would be interesting to hear about the rules/unspoken rules of specific programs/hospitals people know about.

ive never seen a resident or attending wear a white coat in an inpatient setting. the only time i saw psych attendings wearing white coats was on the CL service. and it was funny because the residents rotating through CL didnt wear them. but i think this is very institution-dependent.

 

[nancysinatra]

excellent! cant get any more convenient than that 😀

Oh just wait. I bet back in the day when wood-paneled 8 track players were all the rage, people thought how slick it would be to get those things implanted too.