The Nerd's Guide to Pre-Rounding
A Medical Student's Manual to the Wards

This 2006 book is a comprehensive how-to guide for medical students transitioning to clinical duties.

Richard A. Loftus (Author)

9780521676755, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 12 June 2006

196 pages, 13 b/w illus. 5 tables
18.8 x 12.4 x 1 cm, 0.19 kg

This 2006 book is a how-to guide for medical students moving from the classroom to the clinical/hospital setting; a particularly stressful transition in a student-physician's career. This handbook is made up of short, easily digestible passages that advise students on everything from reading an EKG or chest x-ray to tips on dealing with difficult residents and what to wear on wards. Passages are peppered with light-hearted anecdotes to bolster the spirits of students intimidated and overwhelmed by their responsibility as fledgling doctors. The handbook has been developed by Dr Richard Loftus, who wrote the first version of this guide after his 3rd year at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). It contains appendices of useful information, including a PDF file of full size forms that can be accessed from our website.

1. Warning: career ahead
2. The job of the medical student
3. Job performance: the big ten
4. Gear down: white coats, stethoscopes, and other fashion accessories
5. Pre-rounding and scut basics
6. Knowledge management: if I only had a brain …
7. Pimping and the art of self-defense
8. Presentations: 'Here there Be Dragons'
9. Making the grade: emotional intelligence trumps all
10. Team management for the MS3
11. Morale management
12. Soapbox - physicians and the snare of egoism
Acknowledgements
Appendix 1. Tasty bits - good things to know up front
Appendix 2. Dispo dancing
Appendix 3. Patient data collection card templates
Appendix 4. Daily progress note template
Appendix 5. The (don't) panic pages: for the Sub-I
Appendix 6. Eliciting the code status: a very important job that we doctors do very badly
Appendix 7. Personal finance for the medical trainee
Appendix 8. Using pubmed.

Subject Areas: Medicine: general issues [MB]