Most didactic question bank

[Leonthemedico]

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Hi, I am a junior doctor from Europe. In my country we have this system where a junior doctor works in a department after an internship and then the department consultants decide whether they will give him access to specialty training or not.
Because I want to be an anaesthesiologist I will have to impress my anaesthesia consultants during my next several months of work. To impress them with work ethic and knowledge also. After a discussion with them they told me that anything shorter than the big Miller is for amateurs. They are pretty strict doctors.
Given my limited time I would like to learn a lot but my learning system during my medical school involved a lot of questions, tables, drawings and less of the textbooks style.

To cut my story short my question is which question bank is the most didactic in the sense of having the most pictures, schemes, tables, explanations? Which bank has the most similar style to uworld?
Are there any other comprehensive resources that would prepare a junior doctor to make an impression on the older consultants?

 

[JoelJoel84]

TrueLearn is the most similar to UWorld, with graphs and tables and excellent questions.

 

[deleted697127]

Residency is like training for a sport. There are many ways to do it but consistency wins out in the end. Recommending someone jump straight into reading miller cover to cover is like asking someone to read starting strength and expecting them to have perfect form on Olympic lifts without ever stepping into the gym.

Start with the basics. Stanford intro to anesthesia manual. Know the drugs and doses. Steadily work your way through Morgan and mikhail or baby miller when you don’t have something else to read more relevant for your cases for the day or something assigned to talk about the with your attending for the day. Supplement with relevant topics in big textbooks as necessary. Read about all your cases. Ask questions. Try to find answers for yourself in literature. What dose would you use for a certain drug for a certain case? Google “pubmed” with the drug and procedure. Run into a weird medical problem. Look it up and look up anesthetic implications of that problem. If you need quick answers, see if the topic is on open anesthesia.

Aside from learning anesthesia, ask your attendings why they like their job, what cases they like doing, and see where that discussion goes. I can assure you powering through miller or a qbank and pimping your attendings about esoteric nonsense you’ve read will not win you friends.

 

[deleted697127]

...keep in mind, if your plan was to truly read the 3,112 page miller cover to cover, you’d be on chapter 44 of 50 before you got to: Airway Management in the Adult

 

[deleted162650]

...keep in my, if your plan was to truly read the 3,112 page miller cover to cover, you’d be on chapter 44 of 50 before you got to: Airway Management in the Adult

But you’d have a great handle on the differing pharmacodynamic profiles of various opioids’ affect on Sphincter of Oddi Spasm in Rattus norvegicus.