Switch from IM to PM&R recommended readings?

[Karying14]

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Hello everyone,
I finished more than half of my IM residency and then decided to switch to PM&R recently. I will start PGY2 PM&R this coming July, and want to know what books people recommend for me to read these next 5 months before I start. I will receive a free Braddam or Delisa in July, so i don't want to spend money on those books now. Any books that are not too expensive that i can buy now that will prepare me for next year? Thanks

Karl

 

[axm397]

choi - pocketpedia

 

[Outpatient]

Hoppenfeld-Physical Examination of the Spine and Extremities
DeLisa-Nerve Conduction Study and Surface Anatomy for Needle Electromyography
Perotto-Anatomical Guide for the Electromyographer
Silver-Easy EMG

 

[Llenroc]

Hello everyone,
I finished more than half of my IM residency and then decided to switch to PM&R recently. I will start PGY2 PM&R this coming July, and want to know what books people recommend for me to read these next 5 months before I start. I will receive a free Braddam or Delisa in July, so i don't want to spend money on those books now. Any books that are not too expensive that i can buy now that will prepare me for next year? Thanks

Karl

Get these two:

Gives you a good overview of most aspects of inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation. Takes no longer to read than a novel.

A necessary reference guide that everyone carries around, and a good supplement to the former.

 

[Karying14]

Thanks for the input everyone. If u had a choice between reading PM&R Secrets or Essentials of PM&R now to prepare and read, which one would u pick?

Karl

 

[Llenroc]

I would go with the Pocketpedia. On the three PM&R rotations I was on, the attendings didn't ask too many questions about rehabilitation or even expect the medical students or second year residents to know much about rehabilitation. That was actually a disappointment for me, because I had come into my rotations having read through much of the Essentials book. Probably 90% of the pimping questions they ask you are on anatomy like "What innervates the supraspinatus?", or "what spinal cord levels does the ulnar nerve correspond to?" even when it's not relevant to the patient at hand. Then they give you a lecture on how they had anatomy 20 years ago and they still remember the stuff, but you don't. If you come into the rotation having memorized pages 2 and 3 of Pocketpedia so you can fend off their obscure anatomy questions on the first day, they'll probably leave you alone for the rest of the month.

That and most of the stuff you will be doing is managing medical problems of patients hospitalized on the rehab. ward. 😴

It's unlikely you will get to do much with EMG, Botox, interventional pain, etc. in your second year.

 

[melancholy]

Secrets isn't a bad book at all for starting off. It has quite a bit of information although sometimes you have to search around for it. Pocketpedia is still an easy "go-to" because the information in there will come up time and time again. Unfortunately I haven't had a chance to flip through Essentials.

The above recs for Hoppenfeld (for some classic ortho physical exam stuff) and Easy EMG by Silver (makes those first couple weeks of exposure to electrodiagnostics a little easier to chew on) are pretty good for starting off.

I do think reference books for Edx such as Delisa or Perotto are very useful, but probably not what you'd need early on. Many labs will already have a similiar reference book to flip through whenever you need to look something up, thus you won't have to buy one of them for reading at home really.

All that being said, anatomy is something you will get asked about for the rest of your life because of its relevance to just about every single topic. Never hurts to have references that you find have very helpful sections on anatomy.

Depending on what your PGY2 curriculum is like, it is possible to get the occasional procedure including botox, Edx studies, joint injections, etc. Know where your needle is going!

 

[SCIronMike]

Other than Braddom, the books that I read the most are:

Principles of Clinical Electromyography by Shin Oh

Hollinshead's Functional Anatomy of the Limbs and Back by David Jenkins

Essentials of Musculoskeletal Care by Walter Greene

Nerve Conduction Study and Surface Anatomy for Needle Electromyography by DeLisa