Today I want to do a quick review of an PoorMD‘s eBook titled First Aid for Personal Finance: What Every Medical Student and Resident Should Know The best thing about this book is it only costs $0.99 and hopefully the small price you pay will pay for itself in with
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Clerkship Pearls – Introduction
Starting this week, I’m going to start a short series of posts of clerkship tips and advice. It won’t be anything too ground breaking but instead be a collection of advice I have gotten in this past year that has really helped me in all my rotations. With a brand
15 Things About Surgery
15 quick thoughts from my Surgery rotation 5 Good Things You can Make a Difference – You (surgery) are the intervention. A chance to cut is a chance to cure. You can heal with cold steel. Operations can make a big difference in patient’s lives immediately. No Need to Dress
The Rules of Surgery
There are some basic commandments that have been passed down to every surgical staff, resident and student. Eat when you can eat Sleep when you can sleep Read when you can read Shit when you can shit Go home when you can go home Don’t stand when you can sit
Case Files Internal Medicine
As some of you may know, I’m hoping to apply to a Internal Medicine residency for Carms next year. I have several electives all lined up in various specialties and different schools. To prepare, I’ve been going over several resources and I would just like to do a quick review
Toronto Notes
Over the family day long weekend, I got a little break from the day in day out stresses of clerkship. Anyways, I just want to put out a big plug for one of my favorite resources of all-time. TORONTO NOTES (www.torontonotes.ca) I heard of this volumous text even in my
The Essential Pocketbook for Medicine
Anyone who has ever been on a medicine rotation in a hospital book must have surely noticed the little Red Pocket Medicine Book, which in its newest version is actually now a Green Book, published by the Massachusetts General Hospital and Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. This concise, pocket size (perfect
The Truth about Medical School Textbooks
I’m going to start a new series of posts called “Top 10″ and they will be around various topics/things I wish I had known earlier, or just a random list of top ten things. These are just random thoughts and pearls I wish I could have passed on to my
Textbook Review – First Aid for the Wards
I’m currently in the thick of the overwhelming rotation that is internal medicine (IM). Although the work hours are more reasonable than surgical specialties, what IM lacks in work houts it makes up in knowledge needed. It’s the equivalent of the knowledge of my the last two years, every last
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