Clinical Rotations In Medical School [Best Books and Resources]
Summary
TLDRThe video script from 'MD Journey' offers a wealth of advice for medical students aiming to excel in clinical rotations and exams while retaining knowledge. It highlights resources like 'Life in the Fast Lane' for practical skills, 'UpToDate' for comprehensive medical knowledge, 'Pocket Medicine' for quick reference, and 'Anki' flashcards for efficient studying. The channel promises a new series to help students think like doctors, tackle clinical problems efficiently, and reduce anxiety on rotations.
Takeaways
- 📚 The channel 'MD Journey' is dedicated to helping medical students succeed with less stress through educational videos on studying, efficiency, and clinical rotation success.
- 🌟 Subscribing to the channel is encouraged for regular content on medical studies and clinical rotation tips.
- 💡 Lifeinthefastlane.com is a go-to resource for learning essential physician skills like interpreting EKGs and chest X-rays, especially useful for practicing pattern recognition.
- 🔍 EKG Wave Maven is recommended for practicing EKG interpretation during downtime, offering a variety of cases to improve diagnostic skills.
- 📝 UpToDate.com is highlighted as a comprehensive reference tool, but the speaker suggests using it to create detailed outlines on topics to deepen understanding and retention.
- 📚 'Pocket Medicine' is suggested as a portable, quick-reference guide for internal medicine, useful for reinforcing knowledge across various clinical rotations.
- 📘 The speaker endorses using pre-made Anki flashcards for efficient studying, especially during busy clinical rotations, instead of creating one's own.
- 🎓 'Crushing Clinicals' is a program mentioned that offers a step-by-step approach to excelling in clinical rotations and preparing for exams.
- 👨⚕️ The importance of mastering skills like EKG reading and chest X-ray interpretation is emphasized for building confidence and competence as future physicians.
- 📈 A new series of videos on the MD Journey channel is teased, focusing on teaching how to think like a doctor and tackle clinical problems efficiently.
- 👍 The speaker invites viewers to like, subscribe, and comment with topics they find confusing for potential coverage in the new video series.
Q & A
What is the main purpose of the video?
-The main purpose of the video is to provide resources and tips to help medical students excel in their clinical rotations, shelf exams, and to retain what they've learned.
What is the name of the website recommended for learning essential physician skills like reading an EKG or interpreting a chest X-ray?
-The website recommended for learning such skills is lifeinthefastlane.com.
How does the speaker suggest using lifeinthefastlane.com for improving EKG interpretation skills?
-The speaker suggests using lifeinthefastlane.com to quiz oneself and learn the basics of EKG interpretation, including how to identify different waves and conditions like left atrial abnormalities.
What is the benefit of using the chest X-ray quizzes on lifeinthefastlane.com?
-The chest X-ray quizzes help in pattern recognition and understanding abnormalities by comparing current and past X-rays, and they also provide clinical pearls and additional examples for practice.
What is the name of the resource mentioned for practicing EKG interpretation during downtime?
-The resource mentioned for practicing EKG interpretation is EKG Wave Maven.
How does the speaker recommend using UpToDate.com for learning?
-The speaker recommends using UpToDate.com not just as a quick reference, but also as a tool for creating detailed outlines on specific topics, as if preparing to teach them to others.
What is the name of the program that the speaker offers for a more step-by-step approach to excelling in clinical rotations?
-The program offered is called 'Crushing Clinicals'.
What book is recommended for quick reference during clinical rotations?
-The book recommended is 'Pocket Medicine', specifically the internal medicine version.
How does the speaker suggest using 'Pocket Medicine' to improve clinical knowledge?
-The speaker suggests using 'Pocket Medicine' by reviewing the relevant section for each patient's main problem to reinforce learning and identify important considerations that may have been overlooked.
What is the speaker's opinion on creating one's own Anki flashcards during clinical rotations?
-The speaker advises against creating one's own Anki flashcards during clinical rotations due to time constraints, and instead recommends using pre-made cards created by others.
What new series of videos is the speaker announcing at the end of the video?
-The speaker is announcing a new series of videos aimed at teaching how to think like a physician and tackle clinical problems efficiently.
Outlines
📚 Medical Student Success Resources
This paragraph introduces the video's purpose: to help medical students excel in clinical rotations and exams while retaining knowledge. The speaker welcomes viewers to the 'MD Journey' channel, which focuses on study tips, efficiency, and clinical performance. The channel's content includes regular videos and a special announcement about learning to think like a doctor. The speaker encourages subscription and interaction, promising valuable insights throughout the video.
🩺 Essential Clinical Skills: Online Resources
The speaker recommends 'lifeinthefastlane.com' as a vital resource for learning essential medical skills like interpreting EKGs and chest X-rays, which are often not fully covered in medical school. The website offers quizzes and examples to improve pattern recognition and diagnostic abilities. The paragraph details how the resource can be used by medical students and residents to enhance their understanding of cardiac abnormalities and X-ray interpretations, including clinical pearls and comparative examples.
📈 Enhancing Diagnostic Proficiency with Practice
The speaker discusses the importance of practice in honing diagnostic skills, particularly with EKGs and chest X-rays. 'EKG Wave Maven' is introduced as a tool for self-assessment and learning through randomized case studies. The resource helps in identifying abnormalities and understanding their implications for patient care. The paragraph emphasizes the value of repeated practice for mastering diagnostic patterns and becoming proficient in recognizing various medical conditions.
📝 Utilizing UpToDate for Comprehensive Learning
UpToDate is presented as a reference tool often used for quick lookups by medical professionals. However, the speaker suggests a different approach: using it to create detailed outlines on specific topics as if teaching them to others. This method aids in deep learning and retention. The paragraph explains how to use UpToDate in conjunction with note-taking apps to compile comprehensive notes on topics like renal tubular acidosis, facilitating long-term understanding and readiness for future exams or discussions.
📘 Pocket Medicine: A Handy Clinical Companion
The paragraph highlights 'Pocket Medicine' as an essential resource for medical students, particularly during clinical rotations. The book provides quick access to fundamental medical information that is applicable across various specialties. The speaker shares a personal technique of reviewing 'Pocket Medicine' before patient care to reinforce learning and identify knowledge gaps. This practice is shown to boost confidence and competence in clinical settings.
📚 Leveraging Pre-made Anki Cards for Efficient Studying
The speaker advises against creating personal Anki flashcards due to time constraints during clinical rotations, recommending the use of pre-made cards instead. These cards are beneficial for studying for shelf exams and retaining information effectively. The paragraph suggests that utilizing the work of others can lead to more efficient studying and better performance in exams.
🎓 Support for Clinical Rotations and Future Series Announcement
The speaker mentions a program called 'Crushing Clinicals' designed to provide a step-by-step approach to excelling in clinical rotations. The program has reportedly helped students gain confidence, improve evaluations, and secure top residency spots. Additionally, the speaker announces an upcoming series of videos aimed at teaching how to think like a physician, addressing clinical problems efficiently, and tackling complex topics that may be confusing to medical students.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Rotations
💡Shelf Exam
💡Clinical Skills
💡Life in the Fast Lane
💡EKG
💡Chest X-ray
💡UpToDate
💡Pocket Medicine
💡Anki
💡Crushing Clinicals
💡Medical Student
Highlights
Introduction to the MD Journey channel dedicated to helping medical students succeed with less stress.
Recommendation to subscribe for weekly videos on studying, efficiency, and clinical rotation success.
Announcement of a bonus for learning medical material and thinking like a doctor at the end of the video.
Life in the Fast Lane as a go-to resource for essential physician skills like reading EKGs and interpreting chest X-rays.
Use of quizzes and examples on Life in the Fast Lane to improve pattern recognition in EKGs.
Importance of practicing with chest X-rays to identify abnormalities and understand clinical implications.
EKG Wave Maven as a resource for practicing EKG interpretation and identifying abnormalities.
Using UpToDate.com for in-depth study and creating outlines to teach medical topics to peers.
Crushing Clinicals program for a step-by-step approach to excel in clinical rotations and exams.
Pocket Medicine book as a quick reference for essential internal medicine knowledge.
The practice of reviewing Pocket Medicine for each patient encounter to reinforce learning.
Pre-made Anki cards for efficient studying without the need to create flashcards from scratch.
The benefits of using pre-made Anki cards for shelf exams and long-term retention.
Upcoming series of videos teaching how to think like a physician and tackle clinical problems.
Invitation for viewers to comment on topics they find confusing for the new video series.
Encouragement to like, subscribe, and support the channel for more helpful content.
Transcripts
all right so you want to do well on your
rotations you want to do well on your
shelf exam and you actually want to
remember what you learned on your
clinical rotations well then you may be
asking
what resources should i use to help me
do that it's exactly what we'll break
down in this video let's get into it
alright guys welcome to the md journey a
channel completely dedicated to helping
students just like you succeed on their
medical journey with less stress through
videos about
how to study how to be more efficient as
well as how to do well
on your clinical rotation so if you're
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and also consider hitting that like
button to just let me know that you like
content and want more like this in the
future and as a bonus if you're
interested in how to officially learn
your medical material and kind of think
like a doctor make sure you stay till
the very end i have a pretty cool
announcement but let's get into some of
the top resources to help you on your
clinical rotations to get those honors
but also more importantly
actually remember what you learned today
for the long haul
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so one of my favorite resources to use
to learn most essential skills that you
may need as a physician such as
how do you read an ekg or how do you
interpret a chess x-ray things that you
really don't learn well in medical
school unless you get a good amount of
practice
one of my favorite go-to blogs and
resources is lifeinthefastlane.com
so this was a website that i talked
about plenty of times on this channel
that was originally designed to help
emergency medicine physicians residents
but really is a resource for all doctors
of all kinds so if you go to something
as simple as ekgs as you can see you can
essentially either
quiz yourself or learn some of the most
basic skills possible like how do you
interpret a p wave how do you interpret
the rhythm
and it's just a huge resource to be able
to evaluate things like how do you know
if somebody has a large left atrium or a
large right atrium what's the difference
what do the ekgs look like and as you go
through more ekgs as you kind of learn
through the ekgs of your patients
you may find that it says patient has a
large left atrium but you really don't
know
what about that ekg points you to it so
you can use resources like life in the
fast lane
to have a whole section where they show
you multiple examples
on what leads to look at as well as
different ekgs that you can kind of
compare and contrast
and the beauty of this is every future
ekg you have
you can eventually get better that skill
i'm great now at looking for left
ventricular hypertrophy left atrial
abnormalities
but it's just because i've done so many
examples in life in the fast lane as a
medical student
as well as now as a resident and life in
the vaseline is not just about ekgs you
can also learn some really important
skills at chess x-rays one of my
favorite things to do
even to today is making myself go
through the various chess
x-ray quizzes where they present to you
a case as well as a chess
x-ray and you have to try to see if you
can interpret and find
the most common abnormalities so for
example here is an x-ray of a 79 year
old
who comes in complaining of increased
dyspnea and then we have a chest x-ray
from today
as well as a test x-ray that this
patient had from a year ago and you can
essentially compare and contrast
what is going on and seeing if you can
then find
all of the abnormalities that they
notice in their interpretation and one
of my favorite things about these x-rays
is that it doesn't just tell me what's
wrong with this one so for example this
patient has an enlarged cardiac
silhouette
their heart is a little bit bigger here
than it was before a year ago but the
bonus is
that usually they have some clinical
pearls and at times it's a powerpoint
slide
of other x-rays that look like this that
way you can get more
practice doing pattern recognition and
looking at other x-rays that are
abnormal and normal
and being able to also understand when
you should be concerned
and what type of things you should be
considering so i've done this before
with things
like in large cardiac silhouettes i've
done this with you know people who have
lung masses and being able to identify
them on your x-rays
and it's just a little bit of practice
that you get better at over time
the more you do and as you may have
noticed they already have more than 150
different chest x-rays so that's a lot
of practice and you can become really
good
really fast now make sure to add the
links to all these resources that i
mentioned throughout the video down
below so make sure you check those out
now another resource i've also talked
about on this channel but it's super
effective especially if you're trying to
get practice doing ekgs live in the fast
lane is great because it kind of teaches
you
the essentials and basics and it shows
you many different examples maybe you
just want to see an ekg and see if you
can see
all the abnormalities as well as all the
things that are correct with it
and potentially quiz yourself on what
you would do next for that patient
so one of my favorite resources is to do
this and i do this during like down time
during residency where i'm just waiting
for my attending to come i may just do
one or two ekgs
on a website called ekg wave maven again
i'll link that down below
but it's a beautiful resource of
intermediate difficult as well some easy
ekgs
so that way you can get some practice of
not only seeing one abnormality missing
all of them in one collective picture
and understanding what does that mean
for the patient what's going on and what
should i be concerned about so for
example here you can go ahead and just
say view a random case
you can click kind of your level of
expertise and you can click continue and
you're going to be shown an ekg
which you can go ahead and also increase
in terms
of your resolution and then quiz
yourself like what's the rate do i see p
waves what's the axis what type of
abnormalities do i see
there's a t wave over here and large and
then eventually go ahead and quiz
yourself on what you think the answers
will be and the beauty of these
explanations that it's really nice and
detailed to tell you
what the normal things are what abnormal
things are what to look for in each
different lead
after doing a few of these you find
yourself becoming really good at
identifying those little pieces of
patterns that really do make
the whole kind of situation of what the
patient may have so you get really good
at looking at hypertrophy on the left
ventricle or the rate or finding p waves
things that are really difficult unless
you do a few of them consecutively so
the next resource which is used by a lot
of medical students and residents and
physicians
is uptodate.com now most people use this
as kind of a short kind of reference
wikipedia
kind of tool for medicine and trying to
understand how
should i understand this medication how
long does it last
or how should i interpret or work up a
certain disease process but it's you
it's really used as a bite-size piece of
reference material
for most people on their medical journey
but i kind of like to use it a little
bit differently
so one of the first things that i will
do is actually make a list of the topics
that i've either heard about during the
week or throughout the month or the
rotation
and i realized that they are something
that i'd be uncomfortable with if i was
quizzed on it if i was pimped on it or
if it showed up on
a future exam so one of the things i'll
do to fill that gap in my knowledge is
i'll pull up up to date but i'll also go
ahead and pull up like a note taking
uh app such as onenote or notion or
evernote whatever maybe microsoft word
and then i usually try to almost create
like a huge outline
on that one topic as if i was going to
teach it to my medical students now
and it's a great way for me to go ahead
and learn a whole topic
using an amazing resource because up to
date has lots of references
and percentages and kind of a nice
breakdown and algorithms
but it also gives me kind of a big
picture view of how to understand the
topic
so if i'm trying to teach somebody about
renal tubular acidosis you may not learn
about that very
frequently or get enough practice unless
you're a nephrologist so one of the
things i'll go ahead and do is just type
in renal tubular acidosis and just pull
up
the most common example and then just
briefly read about this and make notes
on one note or
notion something that i could have on my
phone and then practice teaching that to
either
my fellow med students if i was still on
my clinical rotations or now
actually to my medical students as a
resident so it's a different way of
using up to date i still definitely use
it as just a quick reference tool but
this way it actually
forces me to learn the whole library of
information on one topic and then i
attempt to go ahead and teach that in a
nice concise kind of chalk talk so a few
more resources to share but if you are
going into your clinical rotations or if
you're doing your clinical rotations
already
and you want a step-by-step approach on
honoring every single one i have a
program that you guys can check out down
below it's called crushing clinicals
which a lot of students and youtube
viewers in the past have actually
been able to use and benefit in getting
their ideal grades as well as their
ideal residency spot
so that'll be linked down below now
number four on my list of top resources
to use on your clinical rotations is a
book called pocket medicine
this is a series so they have their own
versions for icu pediatrics and i'm sure
others such as emergency medicine but i
really recommend that you go ahead and
just grab the internal medicine one
it's usually an orange or a purple book
and just kind of keep it on the side of
your white coat the reason for this is
that regardless of what rotation you're
on there's just so much bread and butter
medicine that shows up on all of them
and so it's important to have a resource
and just kind of quickly refer
to and get the information you need i
have an interesting way of using pocket
medicine so if you're on your internal
medicine rotation or something in
medicine related this may work for you
but basically every time that i would
experience or admit a patient with a
certain problem let's say asthma or
pancreatitis or heart failure
even if i'm taking care of that patient
before i'll go ahead and just
flip through the pocket medicine section
on that particular
main problem the beauty of this is that
every time i do it i always find
something that i've forgotten or
something that i
need to remember to consider this
specific patient and again just like
your ekgs or your test x where you just
get so much better at pattern
recognition
and that practice eventually becomes a
little bit of mastery you know what labs
to order what things to consider
what scoring systems you use as well as
what medications to use to treat
that patient in the long run and the
ultimate effect of all this is that
you look more confident in front of your
team your residents you're attending
but you actually understand these topics
so if you were to see a patient in a
year or two from now
when you yourself are in residency
you'll actually feel comfortable taking
care of them and my final resource that
i love using on my rotations and i
recommend that you do the same are
pre-made anki cards now if you loved
using anki flash cards in your first and
second year of medical school
you may be trying to use the same on
your third year but you by no means have
to make your own and i would encourage
you probably
don't because it just takes too much
time especially when you're going
through a whole rotation throughout
the day you just need to be efficient
with your studying so honestly just take
the effort that others have put in in
making their own flash cards
and use these to study for yourself
exams i'll link down a few that i have
and sometimes the links will go and come
so apologies if they don't work just let
me know in the comment section down
below
but they're great for studying for each
individual shelf exam as well as setting
for things like step 2 ck but those guys
are some of my favorite resources to
help you not only do well in all of your
rotations and build some of the
essential skills like reading ekgs
chest x-rays and more but also just
becoming a
competent future physician that way you
can use these skills have that long-term
retention
and by the time you're in residency you
can feel a little bit more comfortable
than a lot of your peers but if you do
want help on your individual rotation if
you want more tips on pediatric surgery
you want to know what best resources to
use how to study for your shelf exams
as well as how to impress your
attendings i'll link down below a
program that we have on the empty
journey called crushing clinicals
and many viewers through youtube and the
podcast have gone through it already and
they found that you know
not only are they more confident and
just less anxious on their rotations but
they're doing better getting better
evaluations
and a lot of our former students have
been able to use that into getting
into their number one residency spot so
i'll link that down below in case you
kind of want a more step-by-step
approach and finally at the start i did
mention a bonus about
how to kind of think like a doctor how
to perceive different clinical problems
and become efficient when you do
have to learn a new bit of information
so one of the exciting announcements i
have for the md journey
is i'm essentially creating a new series
of videos where i will be teaching
now different topics um such as heart
failure pulmonology
different things that you'll be seeing
in the hospital is both a medical
student as well as a resident so if you
want a nice
efficient way of how to think like a
physician go into a patient's room
and be able to tackle a lot of the
unknowns and a lot of the topics that
may make you feel uncomfortable
if you didn't have a multiple choice
exam in front of you that's exactly what
this series is meant to do so if you
guys are interested i'm not sure when
this video will come out
based off when the program will come out
but i'll link it down below
and that way you guys can get some more
information and definitely comment
in the comment section below let me know
what topics you want me to cover in this
new series
what topics are really confusing to you
and you wish somebody just made them
easier things like antibiotics i promise
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