How to be a Truly Excellent Junior Medical Student
by Dr. Robert J. Lederman

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Book Review: Must-read before starting your clinical clerkships!
Summary: 5 Stars

This pocketbook explores the world of the hospital, the role of each member, and how things are done in terms of writing notes, ordering tests, and performing procedures.

In Chapter 1, it introduces the JMS's to how a hospital works: (Outpatient vs. inpatient care, community vs. teaching hospitals, Private & staff patients, Nursing units & specialty services, Physician teams, Getting admitted to the hospital, Night calls, Ward routines from a patient's perspective).

Then the author talks in Chapter 2 about how to do stuff including reviewing a chart, writing orders, medications and prescriptions.

Chapter 3 teaches how to write notes (admission notes, internal medicine daily progress notes, discharge notes, notes for the Surgical care, Obstetrics, Pediatrics, Neurology and Psychiatry).

Chapter 4 focuses on procedures, in terms of preparation, introduction to phlebotomy & IV placement, performing venipuncture, taking blood culture, arterial blood gases, ECG, lumbar puncture, NG tube & Dobhoff placement, placing a urinary catheter, and local anesthesia.

Chapter 5 deals with bedside tests including urinalysis and Gram stain.

Finally Chapter 6 teaches JMS's how to organize their data and schedule, and to make a good presentation.

This pocketbook comes in 124 pages, published by Tarascon Press, in its 6th edition, 2001.

The only drawback I found is that chapter 3 is entirely duplicated twice, at least in my copy. Other than that, I strongly recommend this pocketbook for med students before commencing their clinical clerkships.

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