CME - Cardiology Library?

[cardiomegaly]

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Hello all,

I'll be starting my fellowship this summer after finishing up a year as a hospitalist and I was wondering if anyone could make general recommendations for books/board review texts that would be good to spend my CME money on?

So far, I had planned on looking into:
- Braunwald
- Echo manual by Oh
- EKG book by O'Keeefe
- Cardiology Manual - Griffin (Cleveland clinic book)

Any other thoughts or specifics for board review would be great.

Thanks!
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[hotshotdoc]

I am a second year fellow. I bought a lot of books in my first year. My suggestions would be:

- Do not buy Braunwald. Yeah its a great book, the bible of cardiology blah blah blah ...but honestly one wouldnt have the time to read it. and even one reads it, one wont remember much. You can always find Braunwald in your library for reference. or i can sell you my book.
- Echo manual by Oh is great. Do get "Clinical Echo review- self assessment tool" by Allan klein and Craig Asher. Its a MCQ book with detailed answers. Its specifically geared for Echo boards. But the questions and cases are great and will help you a lot in understanding the basics of Echo.
- Get ACCSAP (available on cardiosource)- It gives you PDFs (topic wise) for theory and question & answers. Print all the PDFs. That should be your standard text, "daily" reading material. Its very well written, its detailed, yet not so detailed that you get lost in details and forget everything next morning . Its something you can finish reading 2-3 times in your 3 years of fellowship and actually retain.
- Mayo clinic cardiology review course DVDs (go to their website) are expensive but worth the investment. Get the print out of the slides too which they sell separately. Similarly their Echo DVD course is great, but again expensive.
- For EKGs you could go to wave-maven (free) or subscribe to ecgsource.com.

My 2 cents.