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| The Medical and Surgical Residency Survival Guide: How to Build a Tactical Advantage for Success |
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ISBN: 978-1-910079-67-6,
236 pages,
Soft Cover
ISBN-10: 1-910079-67-7 |
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| Copyright: |
2019 |
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| Edition: |
1st |
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| Author: |
McMahon, Daniel |
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Medical Education & Informatics |
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| Publisher: |
TFM Publishing |
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| List Price: |
$19.99 |
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At A Glance
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The transition from medical school to residency training is a challenging and transformative experience that will come rushing toward you like a run-away freight train. Life as a resident physician is drastically different to what most experience during their clinical rotations in medical school. Medical school can sometimes feel like an extension of your undergraduate college experience; however, residency is an entirely different animal. You will undoubtedly approach this transition into residency with a combination of raw emotion to include enthusiasm and eagerness but also trepidation and apprehension. This survival guide will serve to temper these emotions and transform them into a sense of confidence as you progress forward. This book is a focused, honest, and straightforward text that addresses the unique challenges encountered in residency training and more importantly discusses a number of strategies to facilitate tactful navigation of these challenging waters.
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Reviewer:
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Bryce Montane,
M.D. B.S.
(Cleveland Clinic)
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Is this written at an appropriate level? |
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Bryce Montane,
M.D. B.S.
(Cleveland Clinic)
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Description
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| This book presents the unwritten rules for how to get physicians through their residency training. It addresses all aspects that make one successful in parts, including personal qualities, how to navigate the system, how to be a professional, how to speak to patients, how to speak to one's own family, how to keep up to date, etc. |
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Purpose
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| The purpose is to give readers insights into the hard lessons that must be learned and how to avoid mistakes that can damage a career as a physician. |
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Audience
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| This book acknowledges the difficulties of residency and pushes readers to be better. The author does not shy away from the truth and provides tools to help residents succeed in one of the most difficult times of their lives. It reminds readers that medicine is one of most demanding fields imaginable but that doesn't mean mistakes can't be made along the way. He leaves readers with high-yield quotes throughout. |
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Features
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| The first chapter emphasizes the most important lesson that residency is a grind. Every task must be completed one at a time and to the best of one's ability. A resident needs to be a researcher, clinician, technician, clerical worker, leader, follower, teacher, learner, and a compassionate human being to be a good physician. The diversity of abilities residents need is what makes the job so taxing and rewarding at the same time. The author touches on the unwritten rules many residents have to find out the hard way: don't break the chain of command, do things right the first time, check the ego at the door, and be willing to ask for help when needed! He ends with one of the most important aspects of this field: everyone needs to be a mentor. Every generation of doctors needs to help the next generation grow. Medicine is a team sport and all need to help one another, as no one can go it alone. The book reminds readers they are individuals first and doctors second, and all have room to grow in every aspect of their careers. |
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Assessment
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| As an active medical resident, I found this book to be a refreshing reminder that we all face adversity in our training. This book acknowledges the difficulty of residency and pushes all to be better. This is an easy read that can be completed in just a few hours. The author is blunt and rigid but also caring and detailed. He embodies a surgical resident who has completed his training. He touches briefly on every aspect of residents' lives and how to improve upon them in a thoughtful manner. At the same time, he understands residents do not need another lengthy book to read. |
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