neurology rotation book?

[waldowaldo]

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hey all,

my next rotation is a 1 month neurology clerkship. can anyone offer any advice..especially a good, concise (it's only a 1 month rotation) book to buy? thanks a bunch!

waldo

 

[TicDouloureux]

Much of neurology is related back to the anatomy. If you know that, and the drugs, you're doing pretty good. I didn't buy a book. I used my old copy of High Yield Neuroanatomy, and went to my neuroanatomy texts (Snell, Kingsley is also good) if I needed more detail. For clinical info, I looked up stuff online (Up To Date, eMedicine, Harrison's Online).

If you don't know something, the answer is usually "let's get an MRI" or "how about some topamax?" 😀

 

[Spang]

hey all,

my next rotation is a 1 month neurology clerkship. can anyone offer any advice..especially a good, concise (it's only a 1 month rotation) book to buy? thanks a bunch!

waldo

Blueprints. Our neurology clerkship is only TWO WEEKS! You can do Blueprints on a long afternoon. I made a "neuro pearls" summary of Blueprints that's like 11 pages to carry in my white coat so I could review when standing around on rounds. PM me with your email and I'll gladly send it to you if you want.

I like Blumenfeld more than Snell for the imaging stuff.

I looked some stuff up in High Yield Neuroanatomy, 3 main long-tracts, facial nerves, optic nerve, CN roots, etc, that I had forgotten since Step 1 in June. Blueprints though is really concise and covers most if not all of what you need.

The Pretest is pretty good too, but I think I only got a couple hundred of the 400 or so questions done. I haven't got my shelf grade back, but should this week. Remind me and I'll tell you how this strategy worked out (or didn't!) for me.

best of luck,
Spang

 

[njbmd]

hey all,

my next rotation is a 1 month neurology clerkship. can anyone offer any advice..especially a good, concise (it's only a 1 month rotation) book to buy? thanks a bunch!

waldo

Hi there,
The best neurology study materials for me were Peter Duus' book called Topical Diagnosis in Neurology (had Anatomy, Physiology, Signs and Symptoms in the same book) and the MedStudy Neurology section. This was more than I needed for both my Neurology elective and my one month neurology rotation.
nbjmd 🙂

 

[syrinx]

hey all,

my next rotation is a 1 month neurology clerkship. can anyone offer any advice..especially a good, concise (it's only a 1 month rotation) book to buy? thanks a bunch!

waldo

To just pass: Blueprints and PreTest is enough. Good broad coverage of topics.
To do well: I also used Secrets in Neurology. Awesome book and more in-depth coverage. Also, as others have mentioned, know your neuroanatomy.
For example, back pain differential and root distributions, brachial plexus, stroke localization, vascular territories.