2019 Student Recommendations - Study Aids for Core Clerkships & Additional Tips

Internal Medicine
1.) UWorld Q‐Bank; must start early
2.) Online MedEd (highly recommended for day‐to‐day on the wards; OME Audio great for long commutes)
3.) Step Up to Medicine (recommended but has typos)

Additional Resources
• Emma Holliday Review (University of Texas)
• NBME Practice Exams

Rotation Tips from prior students:

• For the shelf exam start doing Q‐Bank questions early—this was the most common recommendation (and
regret). Day 1 is what most students said.
• Do questions while on the floor when there is down time.
• Look things up as you go/study based on cases you encounter; make sure to focus on ambulatory medicine
• Carry the Pocket Medicine orange book with you on the wards - it's helpful for both you and your residents
• Be proactive about your learning, volunteer to give presentations, take patients, send pages, etc.
• Know everything about your patients. Talk to nursing every morning during pre-rounds.

Family Medicine
1.) FM Clerkship Binder (most common recommendation)
2.) Mobile Medicards (available on Tusk)
3.) Study Guide on Dropbox or onedrive Online FM cases

Rotation Tips from prior students:

• Be flexible with your schedule, office hours may be later than you anticipate
• Study everything in the binder for the exam
• Study from the “study guide”, emphasis on nutrition Practice EBM

Obstetrics/Gynecology
1.) APGO videos/UWise online question bank
2.) Casefiles for OB/GYN (good for every day, not for shelf)
3.) UWorld Q‐Bank (UWise questions are better than UWorld)
4.) Casefiles for OBGYN
5.) Online MedEd

Rotation Tips from prior students:

• Be active (volunteer to help with deliveries early) and present during all aspects of the rotation
• Study a lot during clinic weeks
• Be respectful towards the nursing staff, especially on L&D
• Know fetal heart rate tracings
 Pediatrics
1.) CLIPP cases and summaries (key resource)
2.) UWorld is not as useful for this shelf (but some students used it as additional resource)
3.) Online MedEd

Rotation Tips from prior students:

• Review CLIPP summaries and questions over the last week of the rotation
• Focus on the CLIPP summaries

Psychiatry
1.) First Aid for Psychiatry (key resource)
2.) UWorld Q‐Bank (not as representative for this exam)

Additional Resources
• Online MedEd
• Lange Q&A

Rotation Tips from prior students:

• Have fun, don’t be afraid to talk to patients on your own
• First Aid is the best resource for studying; neurotransmitters and pediatric psych are not covered in first aid
• Know meds and major side effects
• Use the DSM criteria on the wards, print out a few bullets of the criteria for the most common diagnoses and
use them during interviews
• Need to make sure you know some child psychiatry as well (First Aid is not great in this particular area)

Surgery
1.) UWorld Q Bank (also, add GI and renal questions)
2.) Pestana (key resource for shelf; also recommend the audio file)
3.) Divirgilio Surgery: A Case Based Clinical Review (great resource for the oral exam)
4.) NMS Surgery Casebook (some recommended the textbook as well)
5.) Practice NBME exams
6.) Oral Exam Study Guide on OneDrive

Rotation Tips from prior students:

• Read the chapter on how to be a good student in Surgical Recall—it’s key
• Be “present” and willing to do things. Don’t be afraid of the OR and be nice to everyone (scrub techs, OR
nurses—they determine if you can participate)
• Prep for all surgeries you know you will be in (know patient info, indications for surg, etc).
• Pestana, Pestana, Pestana
• Surgical Recall for daily preparation
• Review GI and Renal, consider NBME
• Find ways to help in the OR and on the floor, read up on the procedures the night before
• Take care of yourself! Eat, sleep, exercise if/when you can. Always have food on you (coat/scrubs) and drink
H20/pee when you can.
• Don't waste time trying to be prepared for pimping questions you can't predict. It's okay to not know an answer
when getting pimped as long as you say something or explain your thought process. No one will actually
remember if you get questions wrong or not.
• Practice suturing whenever you can.
• Surgery shelf is about management of patients with the illnesses on the surgery service, not the surgeries
themselves.