Preparing for Anesthesiology CBY

[cognitus]

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Hey guys. I'm an independent applicant who graduated from medical school >5 years ago and was fortunate to match into an anesthesiology program. I am looking for advice on how to prepare for the clinical base year. I have previous experience as a medicine intern, so I won't need as much help at that. However, I would like some advice on how to prepare for the surgery inpatient rotations. I haven't been on the surgery floors since medical school and I am basically clueless on what I need to know as a surgery intern.

Any advice on surgery books to read or websites to go to ? Please refrain from telling me to go on a vacation. I know that intern year is hard, but that is not the point. I want to hit the ground running and NOT kill surgery patients as an intern. Thanks.

 

[Random Anesthesiologist]

Read any abbreviated surgery text. Pay attention to post op care, fluids, acid-base, wound care, surgical complications. Also review pharm for chronic disease and pain/nausea meds. Review how to do h&ps and consults. You'll be doing a lot of this.

 

[sheeed]

Like random resident said, get comfortable with H&Ps, consults and progress notes. At most programs, for surgery that will be the bulk of your work. If you can do that you won't really hold the team up.

as for the actual know how... I'm trying to remember what book I used for surgery and that was just a year ago lol. I think it was a Kaplan surgery review for the basic basic stuff. You'll pick up a lot along the way. Maybe someone else can suggest something more thorough

 

[echolab]

You don't need to read a whole lot, if at all, for your surgery rotations. It's really more about multi-tasking and just getting through that list of checkboxes before your seniors get out of the OR.

 

[Dwindlin]

You don't need to read a whole lot, if at all, for your surgery rotations. It's really more about multi-tasking and just getting through that list of checkboxes before your seniors get out of the OR.

This. The medicine is the same, just have to remember to check your drains/wounds, and don't write medicine style progress notes. Some of the stuff Random mentioned is useful (fluids, electrolytes, etc), and I did read that stuff (mostly from the ICU Book), but don't waste your time with a surgery review or text. Just keep your service flowing while your upper levels are in the OR and they will love you.