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Does anyone have any recommendations??
What to read before residency?
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as above, something fun. you'll have plenty of reading ahead, use it for something fun before Harrison's make you blind.
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Harrison's, cover to cover, in one sitting, that'll make a man out of ya boy!
Seriously I'm just reading for fun (ie non medical stuff). After finding myself unable to take my elders advise on things like 'how long to study for step 1' and 'how many interviews to schedule' and finding them to be totally right, I'm going to step into the abyss and take their 'slack off during 4th year' advise to heart. I did 3 hard months at the beginning of the year and now have basically nothing rigorous planned for the rest of the year (minus maybe a ID consult month right at the end to wake my brain up before intern year).
As far as preparatory stuff goes, I'm reminded of some advise I got on my sub-I by a fellow, "Sub-I's are good, but using a sub-I to prepare for intern year is like preparing for a car crash by banging your head against a wall."
Seriously I'm just reading for fun (ie non medical stuff). After finding myself unable to take my elders advise on things like 'how long to study for step 1' and 'how many interviews to schedule' and finding them to be totally right, I'm going to step into the abyss and take their 'slack off during 4th year' advise to heart. I did 3 hard months at the beginning of the year and now have basically nothing rigorous planned for the rest of the year (minus maybe a ID consult month right at the end to wake my brain up before intern year).
As far as preparatory stuff goes, I'm reminded of some advise I got on my sub-I by a fellow, "Sub-I's are good, but using a sub-I to prepare for intern year is like preparing for a car crash by banging your head against a wall."
I agree with reading non-medical stuff for fun and relaxing during 4th year...but I would add that you should throw in some medicine-related readings here and there. Your first few months will be much less stressful if you haven't forgotten all you learned in the 3rd year/early 4th year by the time you start internship...
You'll still survive internship if slack off ALL of 4th year but if I had to do it all over again, I would have done a "little" more studying in 4th than I did.
You'll still survive internship if slack off ALL of 4th year but if I had to do it all over again, I would have done a "little" more studying in 4th than I did.
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That's classic. Love it.
I definitely agree that you should use this time to read for pleasure. Or if you don't feel like reading, skydive for pleasure, knit socks for pleasure, or watch reruns of Melrose Place for pleasure. If, however, you absolutely must do some medical reading to try and prepare for internship or your head will explode, do not read textbooks or anything that you think will pack actual medical information into your head. You will remember none of it when you get on the wards. Instead, go for texts that explain how to do things, like read CT scans or perform bedside procedures. "Cope's Early Diagnosis of the Acute Abdomen" is pure gold, so is "Felson's Principles of Chest Roentgenology." That's stuff that you will use, and might actually retain.
