Recommended Reading List?

[pgg]

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I'll be starting an anesthesia residency this July (current Navy GMO, matched at Portsmouth). I have a ton of free time now - two months to go in Iraq (2-3 hour workdays) which will be followed by a 3 month vacation to fill up April, May, and June as I have 100+ days of leave to burn lest I lose it all as a resident.

Obviously a reread or two of Baby Miller is in order, but what else?

All you current residents, attendings, program directors, gurus, etc: how do you think a soon-to-be anesthesia resident should be directing his reading?

What do you wish you'd done or known prior to showing up for the first day?

Thanks.

 

[TofuBalls]

Morgan and Mikhail Clinical Anesthesiology (Lange Series) for the first 6 months. This is a very basic and practical text.

If you need more clarification go next to the new Barash Clinical Anesthesia. This is an easy to read text with much of the detail you need. You should start reading this in the second six months anyway.

So, if you have a few months to read, Morgan and Mikhail will have you in good shape for the first few months so you can concentrate on more important things like: how your attending likes to tape the tube! 🙄

 

[militarymd]

I put together the resident educational series from 2000 to 2004 at NMCP for incoming CA-1's. The initial lecture series treats each of the new residents as blank pieces of paper, meaning I assumed that you know nothing.

You would be fine if you read nothing....this leaves yourself room for improvement.

On the other hand, I've been gone for 19 months, things may be very different.

 

[VentdependenT]

Basics o' anesthesiology should do you fine.

Morgan and Mikhail is a great book. Just cover the pharm and airway chapters to start with if you own it already.

Otherwise nab yourself a faust and start pounding away at it.

One reading that has really been helping my thought process during my incipiency at Rush is Yao & Artusiou's Anesthesiology Problem-Oriented Patient Management. Check it out once you get started. Gotta thank Supafresh for that one.

Lastly ENJOY YO" SELF durning this down time.

 

[pgg]

Appreciate the replies.

Most other people are also telling me to enjoy the break while it lasts, and that the program will assume I know nothing on day 1. I may be a little too dysfunctional to do that as I have this irrational desire to not look like a complete idiot on the meaningless inservice exam during week 2. 🙂

Thanks for the suggestion of Yao & Artusio, I'll give that one a look.

 

[militarymd]

I have this irrational desire to not look like a complete idiot on the meaningless inservice exam during week 2. 🙂

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My classmates and myself all looked like fools during the first few months of residency.

 

[jetproppilot]

My classmates and myself all looked like fools during the first few months of residency.

Ditto.

Kinda like being forced to communicate using a language you've never heard. Takes a while to catch on.

 

[pgg]

My classmates and myself all looked like fools during the first few months of residency.

I suppose that's unavoidable to an extent.

Though I have to be honest and admit that coming from 3 years treating knee pain in healthy 22-year-old Marines, I probably need to spend some time reading EKGs & ABGs, reviewing acid-base stuff, remembering what diabetes and hypertension look like, etc. All that IM & critical care stuff that's not anesthesia ... but also definitely not part of a GMO's daily life.

If I was rolling from a June ICU rotation right into a July CA-1 job, I'd be less intimidated. 🙂

 

[usnavdoc]

I suppose that's unavoidable to an extent.

Though I have to be honest and admit that coming from 3 years treating knee pain in healthy 22-year-old Marines, I probably need to spend some time reading EKGs & ABGs, reviewing acid-base stuff, remembering what diabetes and hypertension look like, etc. All that IM & critical care stuff that's not anesthesia ... but also definitely not part of a GMO's daily life.

If I was rolling from a June ICU rotation right into a July CA-1 job, I'd be less intimidated. 🙂

I agree. Im in the same boat you are in except Im going to a civ program where they have no idea or understanding what a GMO is. Intimidated to say the least.

 

[Laurel123]

I'll be starting an anesthesia residency this July (current Navy GMO, matched at Portsmouth). I have a ton of free time now - two months to go in Iraq (2-3 hour workdays) which will be followed by a 3 month vacation to fill up April, May, and June as I have 100+ days of leave to burn lest I lose it all as a resident.

Obviously a reread or two of Baby Miller is in order, but what else?

All you current residents, attendings, program directors, gurus, etc: how do you think a soon-to-be anesthesia resident should be directing his reading?

What do you wish you'd done or known prior to showing up for the first day?

Thanks.

I did no reading at all! My transitional year was pretty busy - so I just jumped in and started cold. The first week was rough, but I think it would have been rough regardless. You learn fast. My first inservice I did miserably. I knew about two questions and the second half I guess randomly and left in half an hour. But then when I took it in my second year I passed the exam.