I have my own copy of that nice blue manual with the white notebook type binding. I have to say that the PI Manual 2nd edition is excellent! I have read the entire manual 5 times all throughout 2nd year podiatry school Spring session and this past summer during the beginning of my 3rd year. I have seen alot of clinical feet and ankle cases in clinic in the school that are nothing new, since I read the PI Manual ahead of time. And the manual helped me prepare for 2nd year podiatry related courses. I certainly will use this PI Manual during post graduate training and in my practice. Very accurate information that is also updated. Understandable material even for 1st year podiatry students and pre-podiatry students!
PI Manual is excellent!
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It is also, unfortunately, chalk full of mistakes and typos. Particularly in the anatomy section. I didn't enjoy having to double-check everything once I figured out just how many mistakes there were.
3rd years: Save your money on the brand new version, since chances are there are pdf copies floating around at every school, or better yet, get PRISM, presby, or Hershey manual. OR purchase Pocket Podiatrics, much more useful in the clinics.
3rd years: Save your money on the brand new version, since chances are there are pdf copies floating around at every school, or better yet, get PRISM, presby, or Hershey manual. OR purchase Pocket Podiatrics, much more useful in the clinics.
I agree with you about grammitical typoes. There are some in the book. But I would have to disagree with you in terms of mistakes. Dr Scot Malay, the editor of the PI Manual and attending at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center (Philadelphia, PA), is an expert in foot and ankle medicine and surgery. To make such a claim that the PI Manual is full of errors implies that Dr. Malay is incompetent. I have heard and read many excellent impressive things about Dr. Malay and his two huge career achievements: 1) The PI Manual book and 2) his article about the Malay Classification system for toenail trauma (now a classical paper).
POCKET PODIATRICS?! That book has more grammtical errors than the PI Manual (no offense to Dr Watkins, the editor of POCKET PODIATRICS). I feel that Dr. Malay was a better editor than Dr Watkins. I would rely on the grammatical accuracy of the PI Manual book over POCKET PODIATRICS. Presby and Hershey Manuals are getting outdated. The only modern book on podiatry that is useful is the PI Manual, 2nd edition. It is the authoritative book for the APMLE exams, board certification exams, for pimping sessions in 3rd and 4th year podiatry school, and for postgraduate training and fellowship. Congrats to Dr. Malay! I cannot wait for the 3rd edition to come out!
What is true though: to study for Part 2 and Part 3 APMLE board exams, the PI Manual, POCKET PODIATRICS, FOOT AND ANKLE SECRETS, and the PEARLS book are the 4 best books to read to prepare for these two exams. Get these 4 books, read them thoroughly, and you will pass part 2 and part 3 APMLE boards. Presby manual, Hershey Manual, McGlamery textbook, CROZER manual, and INOVA manual are not necessary/overkill.
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An editor can't and won't catch every error. It's not incompetence. It's sheer volume.
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PI manual is solid gold IMO... far and away the best resource for the $.
I view Watkins' Pocket Podiatrics as 2nd/3rd year book, and I thought it had a good amount of typos. PI Manual is for 3rd/4th year - and beyond... I still use it quite a bit.
Related: http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=740296
I view Watkins' Pocket Podiatrics as 2nd/3rd year book, and I thought it had a good amount of typos. PI Manual is for 3rd/4th year - and beyond... I still use it quite a bit.
Related: http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=740296
@ Feli or whoever else who has been through it all,
would you recommend buying and reading any of these books between year one and year two? Just looking for some good things to do this summer to get ahead a little. If so which ones would be good at this time?
would you recommend buying and reading any of these books between year one and year two? Just looking for some good things to do this summer to get ahead a little. If so which ones would be good at this time?
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PI Manual, 2nd edition (excellent book! very accurate and up to date)
Foot and Ankle Secrets, 2nd edition (same as PI Manual)
Podiatric Medicine and Surgery: Pearls of Wisdom Part2, 2nd edition
these 3 books read ahead of time, in the summer before your second year. The authors are well respected and well reputed podiatrists in the country and imho in the world. Dr. Malay (PI Manual) is an attending from Penn Presby. Dr. Harkless (Foot and Ankle Secrets) is Dean of the new California podiatry school and former Director of the San Antonio residency program. And Dr. Kushner (PEARLS book) is a Director of Podiatric Medicine Dept at OCPM.
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Just review anatomy, esp LEA.
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Sounds like somebody's got a crush on Dr. Malay. Whoa there buddy...
Anyways, PI manual is OK. IMO, there's just TMI in there and yes, for a quick reference, it's good. If you want to excell at externship's and do well on residency interviews, then you must read PRISM. Classic articles given as references (a must for any future resident) as well as good assessment sheets. It's the basic knowledge you need to know and apply on a daily basis. If you know the 100 pages of it in and out, you will be a very strong student. Plus it's only 100 pages and if you're busy, then you can read it in a relatively short period of time.
But guess what, I bet you're going to get a plethora of different answers on what's best, so instead of asking random people on an "anonymous" forum, why don't you obtain these (Hershey, PRISM, Presby, Crozer, Temple trauma are all floating around free somewhere) and the ones that aren't, spend 10 min in your book store flipping through it to see which one fits your style. Some people like that super overkill, in depth review like PI and others, like myself, like a short, sweet abbreviated study guide where I can look things up on my own (if you ask me, it's better to actively learn by challenging yourself to research a subject more in depth than by just having it all laid out in front of you, just my opinion). Good luck.
Anyone know of a good source to get the 2nd ed of F&A Secrets?
I have an electronic copy of the 1st edition.
My other question is what do y'all recc for biomechanics besides Root & Valmassy. They are way too involved. I am looking for something a little simpler and to the point. The subject is quite painful for me, so would love some recc.
I have an electronic copy of the 1st edition.
My other question is what do y'all recc for biomechanics besides Root & Valmassy. They are way too involved. I am looking for something a little simpler and to the point. The subject is quite painful for me, so would love some recc.
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Anyone want to help the Western students out? 😀
Since we have no upperclassmen, we have no access to any of these floating "electronic" resources. I found the PRISM manual through a great thread on here, but that is all I, or anyone else at Western, have.
Since we have no upperclassmen, we have no access to any of these floating "electronic" resources. I found the PRISM manual through a great thread on here, but that is all I, or anyone else at Western, have.
I personally haven't heard of this series of pod books. I would be curious to see the content of the books though.
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I'll send the resources that I have to you all at Western tomorrow. Also, many at NY have pocket podiatrics. Good book, definitely some errors in it though. I haven't compared to the other manuals listed here though.
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That would be great, thanks. Are you down here on rotations or something?
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Watki...wall#!/pages/Watkins-Foot-Center/190271678665
Meet the author of POCKET PODIATRICS and his nice clinic office. POCKET PODIATRICS is that famous pocket-sized blue-covered book in all the US podiatry schools that is used among 3rd year podiatry students in clinic and is bought to test centers for the Part 2 board exams every year since the boards were computerized back in March 2007. 😀
Meet the author of POCKET PODIATRICS and his nice clinic office. POCKET PODIATRICS is that famous pocket-sized blue-covered book in all the US podiatry schools that is used among 3rd year podiatry students in clinic and is bought to test centers for the Part 2 board exams every year since the boards were computerized back in March 2007. 😀
