The nerd's guide to pre-rounding : a medical student's manual for the wards / Richard A. Loftus.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Loftus, Richard A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Clinical clerkship--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Clinical clerkship.

Medical students--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Medical students.

Students, Medical.

Clinical Competence.

Medical Staff, Hospital--organization & administration.

Medical Subjects:

Students, Medical.

Clinical Competence.

Medical Staff, Hospital--organization & administration.

Genre:

Handbooks and manuals.

Physical Description:

xvi, 178 pages : forms ; 19 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Summary:

This guide helps third-year medical students move from the classroom to the clinical/hospital setting - a particularly stressful transition in a student-physician's career. In short, readable passages, the Guide advises students on everything from how to read an EKG or chest x-ray (and look competent doing so), to dealing with ornery residents, to wards fashion do's and don'ts. Using humorous stories drawn from his own experiences as a student, resident, and attending, the author designed the Guide as a "kit" to help students "hit the ground running" in tackling their daunting new responsibilities as fledgling doctors.

Dr. Richard Loftus wrote the first version of The Nerd's Guide after his third year at UCSF School of Medicine. As the author says, "This covers everything I wish someone had warned me about before I stumbled onto the wards - not just about the practical points of how to do my job, but also how to keep cool and come off well to my evaluators."

Contents:

Warning: career ahead

The job of the medical student

Job performance: the big ten

Gear down: white coats, stethoscopes, and other fashion accessories

Pre-rounding and scut basics

Knowledge management: if I only had a brain

Pimping and the art of self-defense

Presentations: "here there be dragons"

Making the grade: emotional intelligence trumps all

Team management for the MS3

Morale management

Soapbox: physicians and the snare of egoism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0521676754

OCLC:

62134629

Publisher Number:

9780521676755

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