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3rd Year Rotations
Select a rotation below for advice.
| Surgery | Internal Medicine | Pediatrics | OB/GYN | Psychiatry | Family Medicine |
Surgery
What Goes In Your Pockets:
- Maxwell’s Quick Medical Reference
- PDA/phone with drug reference
- note cards or scutsheets to keep track of your patients
- stethoscope
- alcohol wipes to clean your stethoscope between patients
- an extra pair of surgical gloves in your size
- cheap pens you don’t mind losing or loaning to your resident
- snacks
- +/- Surgical Recall
- +/- wound dressing supplies
What to Study:
- Surgical Recall - Read Sections I and II twice during the rotation. The Subspecialty Section is less high-yield, but worth reading through once. This book is really all you need for surgery and is great for reading 5 minutes at a time between cases.
- Blueprints Surgery - If you are going to read this short text, do so in the first week of rotation to get a good basic understanding of surgery.
- Case Files: Surgery and/or Surgery Pretest - Both are commonly used question and answer style review books. Work your way through it to help prepare for the shelf exam.
DIT Study Plan:
Surgery – 8 Weeks*
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Week # |
Date |
Surgical Recall |
Question Banks** |
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1 |
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Section I (28 pgs/day)** | Surgery PreTest (#1-131, 19 q/day) |
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2 |
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Section II – First Half (21 pgs/day) | Surgery PreTest (#132-191, 16 q/day) |
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3 |
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Section II – Second Half (21 pgs/day) | Surgery PreTest (#192-241, 18 q/day) |
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4 |
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Section III (33 pgs/day) | Surgery PreTest (#242-414, 19 q/day) |
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5 |
Section I (28 pgs/day)** | Case Files Surgery (# 1-20, 3 cases/day) | |
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6 |
Section II – First Half (21 pgs/day) | Case Files Surgery (# 21-40, 3 cases/day) | |
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7 |
Section II – Second Half (21 pgs/day) | Case Files Surgery (# 41-56, 3 cases/day) | |
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8 |
Review your notes and highlighted text! | Surgical Recall's "Rapid Fire Power Review" |
*We realize that not every school has the same rotation length. We’ve based our study plans off of the most common rotation length. You may need to readjust the number of pages and questions per day for a shorter or longer rotation length. Also, our rotation study plans are based off 7-day study weeks. If you prefer to study for only 5 or 6 days per week, that’s ok, too. Just read a few more pages and do a few more questions than we suggest in this plan on the days you are studying.
**You will find that you will occasionally need to deviate from this plan so that you can “read ahead” about your patients and the cases you will be seeing. This study guide is designed to keep you on track and get you through the material enough times to do well on your shelf exam.
Other Advice:
- Keep note cards or scutsheets on your patients and update them every day. There are some really great scutsheets ready-to-print at medfools.com.
- Power down snacks between cases. You don’t want to be in on a long case with an empty stomach and pass out!
- Wear comfortable shoes, as you will be on your feet all day.
- Make nice with the scrub nurses. Go in before each case and introduce yourself. Ask if you should go get your gloves and gown. Be respectful of his/her sterile field at all times.
