deborah212 Posted January 1, 2011 Share Posted January 1, 2011 About to finish my second year as a hospitalist PA, I thought it'd be useful to compile an updated thread on useful texts. Please feel free to add your own thoughts, recommendations, and reviews. What I carry: Maxwell's- rarely use but good for dermatomes, measuring JVP, and nice pupil markings Sanford Guide- I find to be an essential quick reference. Use it several times a week at least Pocket Medicine- becoming obsolete with uptodate but nice to read on the elevator in route to the ED for an admission Epocrates (free version)- on my phone. Use multiple times daily for dosages, pharmacology, and packaging/dispensing units Personal 4 x 6 notebook- I've cut and taped various useful bits on information from 2 different hospital "intern survival guides" (electrolyte repletion suggestions, pressor choices and doseages, insulin/heparin gtt titration etc, ICU resident pager #, outpatient clinic #s for f/u) Hard-Copy Texts... If I'm reading at home and not specifically about a single diagnosis, I find this to be much more enjoyable if it's presented in a case story format Internal Medicine Casebook: Real Patients, Real Answers- Highly recommend. Goes through the bread and butter of hospitalist medicine as well as some zebras Bouncebacks! Emergency Department Cases: ED Returns- Read this in about 24 hours after it was recommended in the PA student forum. Quite enjoyable. You haven't been practicing long enough if you've never missed a diagnosis. It's quite humbling, and this book provides a good reminder. Symptom to Diagnosis: An Evidence Based Guide- This one is geared for PA students interested in hospital medicine or in preparation for inpatient medicine rotations. Books I regret buying: The Hospitalist Manual (Mehta/Matthews)- Has an ok section on procedures but I really didn't come away with much else. Medicine (Current Clinical Strategies Medical Book)- A pocketbook of admission orders. It was cheap and would be good for a student on internal medicine, but I haven't used it once. I feel like I'm always recommending this... but if you're interested in hospitalist medicine, I'd highly recommend subscribing (free) to physician's firstwatch where top journal articles are condensed to 2-3 sentence summaries: firstwatch.jwatch.org... especially if you're working at an academic institution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator EMEDPA Posted January 1, 2011 Moderator Share Posted January 1, 2011 washington manual for internal medicine cecils's textbook of medicine-much easier to read than harrison's with less trivial fluff. tarascon pharmacopeia. I have a copy for each labcoat for each job. it just sucks not knowing what a medicine is when a pt says " oh yeah and I take 12.75 mg of rifitrixilin" every other day..." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbellin Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 Practical Guide to the Care of the Medical Patient Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deborah212 Posted February 27, 2011 Author Share Posted February 27, 2011 The Only EKG Book You'll Ever Need: Recommended as prereading for a CME course I'm doing this week. Was not impressed and would not recommend purchasing. Bored during most of the reading (could have benefited from more 12 leads interspersed to keep things interesting). The one shining area that it did do a better job than most was explaining how to recognize fasicular blocks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deborah212 Posted October 11, 2011 Author Share Posted October 11, 2011 Tarascon Internal Medicine & Critical Care Pocketbook: Love the toxicologyand renal sections Tarascon Hospital Medicine Pocketbook: Has a nice RCRI section for pre-op evaluation, expanded GI/pulm/ID sections Noting that there is a lot of redundancy between the two above, I think I might actually stop carrying Pocket Medicine with these (blasphemy I know). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rcdavis Posted October 11, 2011 Share Posted October 11, 2011 I gotta go back to it. Marinos the ICU manual.. For home read. For without the physiology, the treatment makes no sense. Ditto tarascon for picket. And dble ditto for pocket index cards... You soon learn what you will need to remember and what your brain refuses to store.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PAS2014 Posted June 1, 2017 Share Posted June 1, 2017 I'd like to bump this back up into play. I'm seeking a really comprehensive textbook to utilize (and prepare) for hospital medicine. Anything new out there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaepora Posted June 1, 2017 Share Posted June 1, 2017 I'd like to bump this back up into play. I'm seeking a really comprehensive textbook to utilize (and prepare) for hospital medicine. Anything new out there? I think you'll find the best textbooks to prepare for an IM rotation are either Harrison's or Cecil's. Every physician has read one of those two in their residencies. It's not practical to have with you on the wards, but it's a great reference text. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PAS2014 Posted June 2, 2017 Share Posted June 2, 2017 Went with Cecil's to start for at-home reading. I had most of the other pocket manuals listed above already. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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