How do I get ready for Intern Year?

[detroitdoc]

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Hi All,
I have not been in the forum for a while and am glad to be back 🙂

I really need some advice on how to get my mind ready for intern year. I have forgotten everything I learned in medical school and feel dumber than ever.
What should I be doing this month before I start? I am not sure yet if I am starting with medicine or psych yet but either way I could use some pointers. What do I really need to know? What textbooks and pocketbooks should i have?
PLEASE HELP!!!
Thanks

 

[Solideliquid]

I'm packing Washington manual, internship survival guide, First Aid step 3, pocket DSM IV, Pocket pharmacopia, tarascon internal medicine pocket guide, Sanford antimicrobial guide, and the handbook of emergency psychiatry by Petit, MD.

Not taking all this stuff with me the first day, but that's my arsenal for now.

 

[OldPsychDoc]

I'm packing Washington manual, internship survival guide, First Aid step 3, pocket DSM IV, Pocket pharmacopia, tarascon internal medicine pocket guide, Sanford antimicrobial guide, and the handbook of emergency psychiatry by Petit, MD.

Not taking all this stuff with me the first day, but that's my arsenal for now.

Fine. Now both of you (and Poety, and the rest...) SLEEP, SLEEP and SLEEP for the rest of the month of May. When you wake up Memorial day weekend, get a moderate amount of sunshine, some physical exercise, go out to eat, maybe have sex if you like---because you will not be able to do ANY of those things again (except at drug lunches) until NEXT June! 😀

 

[mucha]

I want to know also!
I've graduated in Feb, and taken some vacations 😀 😳
Now I need to shake up as I'm starting residency in July. 😱
What do they expect us to have mastered in psych and IM for the very begining of psych internship? I'm not that great in cardio, EKGs and managing fluids. 😳
Thanks!

 

[Solideliquid]

Fine. Now both of you (and Poety, and the rest...) SLEEP, SLEEP and SLEEP for the rest of the month of May. When you wake up Memorial day weekend, get a moderate amount of sunshine, some physical exercise, go out to eat, maybe have sex if you like---because you will not be able to do ANY of those things again (except at drug lunches) until NEXT June! 😀

So...about these drug lunches, is the sex free?

 

[OldPsychDoc]

So...about these drug lunches, is the sex free?

Nothing is truly free--there's always the expectation of quid pro quo! 😉

 

[Poety]

I'm packing Washington manual, internship survival guide, First Aid step 3, pocket DSM IV, Pocket pharmacopia, tarascon internal medicine pocket guide, Sanford antimicrobial guide, and the handbook of emergency psychiatry by Petit, MD.

Not taking all this stuff with me the first day, but that's my arsenal for now.

Are you crazy?

Ugg, I haven't even really thought about starting in that sense. I'm starting in July and I start on outpatient medicine - oh this isn't like medical school where they're going to tell me what to do? OH NO 😱 YOU MEAN IM SUPPOSED TO KNOW HOW TO BE AN INTERN?

BTW Solid, I just got a new dog from the shelter, her name is Sophie - she's going to be great with a little patience and love 🙂

 

[Poety]

Sazi Can You Answer This Question? Im Gong To Buy Books Next Week.

 

[Anasazi23]

Sazi Can You Answer This Question? Im Gong To Buy Books Next Week.

There are almost endless choices. You can, of course, build your library as you advance. To start off:

Interview Guide for Evaluating Dsm-IV Psychiatric Disorders and the Mental Status Examination
by Mark Zimmerman

Kaplan & Sadock's Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry (2 Volume Set)
by Benjamin J. Sadock (Editor), Virginia A. Sadock (Editor)
You can get the 'Synopsis' Version to start off. You'll need the big 2 volume set eventually.

For Neurology get Clinical Neurology for Psychiatrists by David M. Kaufman

For those medicine and/or ICU months in psych residency, this book looks to be extremely useful: Tarascon Internal Medicine & Critical Care Pocketbook- 2nd Edition by Robert J. Lederman ....lots of easily referenced useful information that you'll need but don't want to spend lots of time looking up, like Heparin dosing, differential diagnoses of mixed acid-base disorders, ventilator weaning protocols, CSF and other fluid analysis, lots of formulas, transfusion reaction treatment, etc.

Essential Psychopharmacology: The Prescriber's Guide
by Stahl, 2005

DSM-IV-TR. Big and Pocket edition (get the spiral)

For medicine, some people like Washington Manual Intership Survival Guide, others like Care of the medical patient by Mosby, or the Baby Harrisons or Baby Washington Manual for the pocket. Of course carry the Maxwell's in your lab coat shirt pocket.

 

[Poety]

I have the washington manual spiral, will that be good for outpatient medicine which IM starting in? Or should I get something else too - I'm getting a new maxwell, I beat that thing to hell.

 

[Anasazi23]

I have the washington manual spiral, will that be good for outpatient medicine which IM starting in? Or should I get something else too - I'm getting a new maxwell, I beat that thing to hell.

That should be fine I guess. I'm sure the family practice people have their own pocket manual. Might want to hop over and ask them. Try to snag a new Sanford Guide for sure though for when you hit that, "I've had this earache for 2 weeks and I'm allergic to penicillin, cephalosporins, and aminoglycosides, and have polymyositis, depression, and osteoarthritis...what are you gonna give me?"

[not necessarily in those words, but you get my meaning]

 

[Poety]

bump

 

[i61164]

Bump, for those who recently matched.