Intern Text Suggestions?

[DeadCactus]

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Ignoring Nelson's, any other suggestions? Maybe an imaging text? Derm? Or maybe a non-textbook resource?

 

[Perrotfish]

The best reviews are from Pediatrics in review and neoreviews. Focus on that and you'll do great

 

[citgosign]

You won't open a textbook very often during intern year, except maybe for dermatology, because it's easier to flip through pictures in a book. For derm, I like Weston's Color Textbook of Pediatric Dermatology.
On the wards, I like dynamed, it's a more thorough and evidence-based version of UpToDate, hopefully your program has a subscription. I also read Peds in Review

 

[DeadCactus]

Any non-textbooks reading suggestions? I recall someone recommending a few of the patient oriented books that are out there for a good overview of certain topics but I can't remember what they are.

 

[Perrotfish]

Any non-textbooks reading suggestions? I recall someone recommending a few of the patient oriented books that are out there for a good overview of certain topics but I can't remember what they are.

'Baby 411' is an overview of how babies act, how they develop, what they eat, and how parents should take care of them, written for new parents. Its incredibly well written, pretty much completely evidence based, and I recommend every Intern read it. If you can regurgitate everything there you will probably ace your nursery rotation and will look very competent on your general clinic rotation besides.

'Toddler 411' is the sequel that gives guidance for toddlers. More touchy-feely, longer gaps between strong evidence based recommendations, but still has lots of good advice you can regurgitate on your clinic months. A good read if you have the time.

'Encounters with children' by Dixon and Stein is a good (though insanely long) overview of normal pediatric development that is meant to be read as a book rather than as a reference text. If you read it you will have a very strong grasp of normal developmental milestones.

'Pediatric Imaging, the fundamentals' by donnelly is a book that radiologists use on their Peds Rads rotations, I thought it was a very concise overview of what to look for in Pediatric films.

'Understanding diabetes', also known as the pink panther book because of the Pink Panther on the cover, is the textbook we give to new onset diabetics (and their parents) to study from and if you read it through as an Intern chances are you'll know everything you need to know about managing any diabetic not currently in DKA. The best thing about this book is that it is crazy cheap: chances are you can talk your endocrine service into giving you one for free, and even if not you can buy it used from amazon for only a couple of bucks.

Polin and Yoder's principles of Neonatology is basically a case files book for NICU. Its from 2007, so its getting a little dated, but if you have a NICU heavy residency I feel like its a very good text to get you comfortable with understanding all the numbers NICU throws at you.

Finally, while its not reading and not pediatric oriented, I recommend the podcast 'ICU rounds' by burndoc to absolutely anyone and everyone. There are close to 24 hours worth of lectures on there now, and if you went through all of them I'm pretty sure you could manage almost anything that the PICU will throw at you.

 

[SB100]

For point-of-care while working, I use UpToDate and sometimes DynaMed. UpToDate has more searchable topics and better reading format IMHO, but as people have mentioned it isn't as evidence-based as what you'll see on DynaMed.

If there's something I want to read up more about when I get home, I usually go to the "References" or "Guidelines" tabs from the correlating DynaMed topic and find a paper to read or look at Pediatrics in Review. If there's a broader topic that I'm really not familiar with, I often turn to Pediatric Clinics of North America.

 

[J-Rad]

I always recommend Park's Pediatric Cardiology For Practitioners as a good text to have on the shelf for pediatricians and family med docs (with the caveat that there are some outdated things in there, in particular, SBE prophylaxis guidelines). Very breezy for a busy resident to look through for big-picture concepts. Excellent ECG chapter as well.