*Must have* books for 3rd yr rotations?

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Anyone with experience, can you recommend books that came in handy for 3rd year? The list is a super long...so I want to just invest in what is really good 🙂

If you have any recommendations for "general 3rd year" or also rotation specific, please let me know, thanks!
 
Anyone with experience, can you recommend books that came in handy for 3rd year? The list is a super long...so I want to just invest in what is really good 🙂

If you have any recommendations for "general 3rd year" or also rotation specific, please let me know, thanks!

Umm..there are a lot of threads already for this isn't there? Do a search.
 
Most rotations, I think I focused on one or two core books. Not that there aren't other good ones out there, but this is what I used, FWIW:

Family Medicine: Blueprints, Ambulatory Medicine section of Step Up to Medicine
Medicine: Step Up to Medicine, MKSAP, USMLE World Step 2 CK questions (useful for most rotations, but particularly this one)
Neurology: Blueprints
OB/Gyn: Case Files, uWise, to a lesser extent Blueprints
Peds: BRS
Psych: Case Files, First Aid for the Psych Clerkship
Surgery: NMS Surgery Casebook; I didn't use this, but a lot of people in my class used Step Up to Medicine and after the shelf, I would use this too as that's essentially what the shelf was

Case Files is fine for almost every rotation, but I found them particularly useful for Psych and OB/Gyn. For whatever reason I felt like some of the other ones a few more random, useless cases; additionally, those two rotations have a relatively narrow scope of things you need to know, so you have a better shot of getting a semi-comprehensive look by just going over those 60 cases.

Of course, these were just what I used. As mentioned above, these questions have been beaten to death in other threads, so feel free to do a search.
 
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