Taking CS before peds and surgery rotations during third yr?

[lilmissangel]

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I was thinking of taking the Clinical skills portion of Step 2 within the next month. Im at a US med school and only have Peds and surgery and cant imagine those really helping for CS. Are there peds cases??
I'll probably take it after a couple of weeks of my outpatient peds rotation, so I'll have some exposure. I think I heard there might be a parent you have to talk to.
Are there any surgical cases? Pre-op/post-op visit or something??

I havent opened the First Aid Step 2 book yet, but I just finished Fam Med and did Medicine earlier in the year, and figure if I read that book once or twice and practice a couple of times I should be good to go...bad idea??

 

[Law2Doc]

I was thinking of taking the Clinical skills portion of Step 2 within the next month. Im at a US med school and only have Peds and surgery and cant imagine those really helping for CS. Are there peds cases??
I'll probably take it after a couple of weeks of my outpatient peds rotation, so I'll have some exposure. I think I heard there might be a parent you have to talk to.
Are there any surgical cases? Pre-op/post-op visit or something??

I havent opened the First Aid Step 2 book yet, but I just finished Fam Med and did Medicine earlier in the year, and figure if I read that book once or twice and practice a couple of times I should be good to go...bad idea??

(According to first aid) there may be cases where you are dealing with teenagers, and there may be cases where you are talking to parents over the phone about peds concerns. You can probably prepare yourself for these topics by studying First Aid or something, but it would be false to assume no peds ever comes up on CS. There will likely be nothing you need to have taken surgery to diagnose. Eg. a surgical abdomen is something you should know how to diagnose from any EM, IM FM rotation or physical exam course. And they frown on you putting an emergency chest tube in the standardized patients.🙂

 

[gouda]

Just brush up on your peds in case you get a case. Probably the most helpful rotation for this exam is emed, but if you have completed all your other cores you should be good.

 

[Law2Doc]

.... Probably the most helpful rotation for this exam is emed, ...

Agreed. It's a toss up between EM and FM -- both emphasize getting a quick history and doing a targeted exam, on a wide variety of ailments.

 

[white coated]

You can read peds and surgery from secrets, and if you have case files it will be perfect, and focus on common cases and what's expected to be on the exam

 

[MonkeyDLuffy]

I'm taking mines early too, I'm scheduled for next month to be exact. I've got peds and surgery out the way but I'm not done with medicine yet. I guess I'm in a worse boat then you then, but I'm anticipating it'll got well.