Sorting recuts: What's your system?

[deschutes]

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End of residency, I'm sorting my recuts.

As far as I can tell, a recut collection in academics is used to prepare study sets/unknown conferences etc. Not sure what the utility is to someone in community practice...?

With that in mind, I decided fairly early that recuts should be separated from sample diagnoses/comments. So my recuts are essentially age/gender/site written on the front, diagnosis on reverse of slide label. This has freed me from having to go back to each hospital and look up those I missed or print/file reports to maintain in a separate binder.

I know some people have elaborate Access databases that are indexed and cross-referenced, searcheable, etc. Easier done when you're not moving clear across the country and have dedicated office space. But apart from being an aid in conducting research projects, what does this add? I'm curious. Please enlighten me.

 

[LADoc00]

Okay, I have MAD amounts of recuts. Literally 1000s.

I have looked at them in private prac exactly ZERO times but everytime I switch offices, I need to store them somewhere.

I would keep all slide related to cases you published and consider either deep storing the rest or ditching them.

 

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Re-cuts are close to worthless, IMO. Maybe if you are in academics you'll give a slide conference. In almost any other setting (probably even academics too) a few choice high-res pics are all you need. Re-cuts are a thing of the past, IMO.