Washington maual, Mass General Pocket medicine or Ferri?

[jackets5]

is anyone carrying one of these on the wards 3rd year or have you heard which one is the best. Mass General is like 300 pages and the other 2 are like 1000. Are all 3 of them supposed to be a pocket book.

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[Docster]

is anyone carrying one of these on the wards 3rd year or have you heard which one is the best. Mass General is like 300 pages and the other 2 are like 1000. Are all 3 of them supposed to be a pocket book.

I had the MGH manual, and it came in use on occasion. But it's not essential to have IMHO. Having Step Up Medicine, knowing it really well, and using emedicine for Ddx the night before/morning before rounds worked really well for me. USMLEWorld is killer for the shelf along with Step Up.

Oh, forgot to mention, most medicine interns have the MGH manual in their white coat. Also, MGH was good for the references it put after almost every fact/treatment modality. It was an easy way to impress attendings by doing a little extra legwork and reading the abstracts of those references and seeing if there was any debate as to the best course of treatment.

 

[funshi baba]

I have the MGH, never used it. It might come in handy in ur 4th yr or as an intern.

I am going to keep it for future but i doubt i will be using it a whole lot.

 

[J-Rad]

Ferri's. But then again, I'm a pediatrician 😀

 

[BigRedBeta]

If I only had $50 to spend on a pocket book for the rest of my life, I'd use it on the red MGH pocket medicine book...I used that ALL the time, and even though I'm going into pediatrics, there's still a significant amount of crossover that'll mean it stays in my pocket a little bit longer. I don't know about the other ones. I'd say the only downside to the pocket medicine book is that it can be a little hard to go from symptom to differential (though some sections are way better than others in that regard).

But if you're not going to open the damn thing, then it doesn't really matter.

 

[alphaholic06]

If I only had $50 to spend on a pocket book for the rest of my life, I'd use it on the red MGH pocket medicine book...I used that ALL the time, and even though I'm going into pediatrics, there's still a significant amount of crossover that'll mean it stays in my pocket a little bit longer. I don't know about the other ones. I'd say the only downside to the pocket medicine book is that it can be a little hard to go from symptom to differential (though some sections are way better than others in that regard).

But if you're not going to open the damn thing, then it doesn't really matter.

Why not the blue one?

 

[BigRedBeta]

Why not the blue one?

I think the formatting of the third edition is better, easier to read, and the citations are more complete.

 

[alphaholic06]

I think the formatting of the third edition is better, easier to read, and the citations are more complete.

Thanks