 Now whether you like kids or not you're likely still going to have to do a pediatrics rotation and those tiny little humans are a little bit tricky when it comes to medicine. So in this video I'm going to show you how to crush your pediatrics rotation with eight count of eight resources that help you not only do well on the rotation but get honors in the process. I'm going to share those resources with you after this intro. All right guys what is going on? Luxury from the MD journey helping you succeed on your medical journey with less stress. If you're new to this channel welcome. I have been helping both med students, pre-meds, high school students, you name it on their medical journey via productivity tips, how to study things on doing rotations, just crushing the whole process through both my successes and my failures. So if that sounds exciting to you go ahead and join the community by subscribing and if you enjoyed this video give it a like. Now before we get to our eight resources I want to quickly mention that if you enjoy this video and you want to learn how to take your rotations your clinical year to the next level I encourage you to check out my newest project the clinical guide where I'll link it down in the description. Currently it's in the process of being created and so I'm giving you the opportunity to help me in return for first access and being able to kind of craft what finally goes into the final project and final result. So again the link will be in the description for the clinical guide I'll put a presumptive kind of image of the book right now but there's more to come and more bonuses and free trainings for those of you guys that sign up in the email down below. But now let's go ahead and get into the resources. I'm going to give you the books I'm going to give you the guides and the resources and just kind of where to go to help you crush your rotation and to make it a little bit more interesting I'm going to give each resource a grade so you can kind of see at least in my own opinion what I think of the value of each resource and who I think it's going to be working the best for so we're going to get into it let's get into resource number one that has to be you world if you know med school and you know especially studying free rotations you world is like the king of kings you have to do your world to help yourself get the best shelf exam score possible because those questions are golden for the pediatric rotation there's about 400 practice questions and so what I will say is that pediatrics is my first rotation ever and so the questions were great because it gave me a lot of exposure to the length of the questions the timings I needed to do and a lot of different variety of diseases that I would cover so you world was great in that sense what I will say is that you world is probably not all inclusive in terms of you can't probably get away we're just doing you well you may be able to do it and do maybe two cycles and be okay but to actually get everything down the pediatric rotation does cover a lot I would encourage one of these other resources later on and for that reason because it's not the only resource you can use to do really well on your pediatric rotation at least I think you probably need another one I'm just going to give it an A next resource however I'm going to give an A plus because I really do think it made the difference of me getting a near honors or high pass to actually getting honors on the rotation and that resource is pre-test so pre-test gets an A plus if you're unfamiliar pre-test is a company of review guides which basically is just a Q&A format book of like 500 plus maybe even a thousand questions but I think it's closer to 500 and it's broken down by topic so you'll have one with developmental disorders you'll have one with cardiology issues and pediatric population and we'll just do questions from them the questions will be high yield but you also have some questions that are kind of like WTF like where did that come from and not all of them are useful but there are going to be some questions that you will just won't cover and it's good for you to get that practice and get that exposure I really do think it made the difference I would just kind of covering the basis that maybe you will didn't for me so pre-test is great there are about I would say 500 questions but you can do the 400-year-old questions in about a couple of weeks if you do like 10 to 20 questions a day it gives you enough time to start pre-test or maybe you can do pre-test when you're on the rotation and just do them when you have some downtime and then do a year old when you go home you can do them at the same time you don't have to get through the entire book but the more practice the better so pre-test for me at least gets a plus so now getting into resource number three and quickly all the resources I'm going to mention in this video are going to be linked down in the description so don't feel like you have to take notes those will be nicely linked down for you in case you're interested or you just want to get some more reviews from people other than me but resource number three is BRSPD atrix this is like the creme of what resources people use for their rotation it's like the go-to text unfortunately it's 600 pages it's right 600 pages and so because this is my first rotation 600 pages didn't seem like a big deal and so I went for it and I made this my resource of my choice and honestly it's actually quite good I would basically say it's like the first day the equivalent of for your pediatrics rotation but again it's 600 pages and trying to do that with a busy rotation which pediatrics can be it's tricky so has a lot of info probably more than you need but if you are somebody that needs that would all inclusive text this is probably where you should go but for me because I know not all students like to read 600 pages especially for like a six to eight week rotation I'm going to give it a minus so BRSPD atrix great resource I use that help me do really well on the rotation but then again it is a heavy read so take that for what it's worth but that one gets an A minus from me now let's get back to giving some A pluses one of my favorite resources for my rotations you guys probably know if you've seen more of my videos is online meted OME and since this is my first rotation I heard about OME from my upperclassman who basically said they did not want to spend time reading long text like a BRSPD or doing a lot of you old questions all they did was watch the OME videos from dr. Williams read the notes and that's it and somehow they also did really well so I found the videos to be super helpful again pediatrics is a rotation that is just so much different I would say that in surgery and maybe like psychiatry are going to be those rotations that are really just out there everything else kind of looks and feels similar so maybe opi guy too so check out OME again I talk about a lot in my videos I will link down the description to a full review that I did of the resource you can also see how it improved my step two score by 25 plus points so if you're interested in checking out OME the link will be description for the review if you're interested in trying it out then there will be a nice link as well that will give you a discount of 80 off on an annual subscription just use code OME 18 and if it changes let me know and I'll go ahead and update in the comment section whatever it may be but OME all inclusive has videos has notes has flashcards has practice questions everything you'll probably need for your pediatric rotation in terms of high yield you should go there first I at least recommend that you have this as a supplement to your study if you do you well on top of it or if you're reading a text such as brs or doing pretest questions it's totally fine but OME just makes life so much easier because everything is in one place so if you're feeling lazy you can just watch a video and say you're studying for the day is done go take a nap so that is my next resource OME definitely gets a plus in my book so now we're on our latter half of our resources I'm going to give you two more resources to help you do well on the rotation get honors but then two more resources they're kind of fun and also are going to make your rotation much easier so let's get into resource number five which are the MBME practice exams I mentioned this is most likely all my videos talking about resources but if this is anywhere close to your first rotation even as if it isn't your pediatric rotation I have to keep saying this is so much different the test questions really seem like they're off the wall and very uh not high yield and so you have to be ready to basically face anything because you probably haven't spent enough time studying pediatrics as a first or second year meds dude so you have to try to cover a lot of material in a short amount of time so check you know check out the MBME practice exams I would recommend doing all of them so set up your study schedule in a backwards fashion where you give yourself enough time during those last couple weeks to do them all and that way you also can allocate time and know how many pages you have to read of your BRS or your old questions but I love doing those MBME practice tests because again being my first rotation I was really able to see what the quality of the questions were and sometimes if you're lucky one of those questions do end up showing on your real thing which makes the confidence a little bit easier so check out the MBME practice exams if you're interested now going into my last resource to kind of help you on your rotation this is also a big fan favorite of students who love resources that are short and it can give them the information they need this is case files for your pediatrics rotation again link will be in the description below um basically if you are new to case files they're broken in well you guessed it cases and so they'll be anywhere from 50 to 60 cases per book um and each case represents a very like common disease that you're expected to see on the rotation and then giving you some questions and guidelines on how you would approach it so it's a nice basically you know diagnosis by diagnosis basis um it works really well in fact to actually use case file for one of my rotations and I break it down in the link description below where I give you my step by step on how I study for my rotations and I use case files example in that guide so that guy's in the the link in the description below if you're interested on how to study what I will say for the pediatrics rotation however is that case files at least for me my first rotation didn't feel like enough sometimes the questions don't always pertain to the cases in terms of very direct so it feels a little bit of a disconnect you feel like you're missing out at least I did as I got through more and more rotations I did feel a little bit more comfortable using case files maybe just become a little bit more adept and those holes are filled through other rotations where you just kind of know that information so give case files a shot especially because this is a much shorter kind of book than BRS you can use case files and then supplement it with you all then even pre-test because you'll have more time to do it so I still recommend case files for any of you guys I like that format works really wonders and again if you want to see how I use case files to study my rotations links in the description below but now let's get to two resources that are actually fun but they make a huge difference on your rotation one not as fun but it's kind of cool to have is basically a badge with pediatrics vital ranges so I'll link it right here but pediatrics obviously will have many different things and one of them is that they will likely have a different heart rate and different blood pressure different temperatures that are abnormal and whatnot respiratory rates and so based off of the weight and the age of your child you should at least know what's normal and what's abnormal so this is a perfect kind of card to point through you can just add it with your badge I have it and I still have it and you can just refer to when you need to see if your patient's vitals are just kind of off the charts or if they're considered normal I think it was like two bucks on Amazon I still highly recommend that you guys check that out I don't even know if it's there anymore and then getting to my last resource I loved having a bunch of these I kind of got crazy on how much I spent but you need at least if you want to be a fan favorite of your patients have stickers in particular try to go for whatever is kind of big in the pediatrics world so for me it was minions back then it's probably still minions right now Marvel works really well for the gents you know princesses and frozen seems to always be a hit with the lady patients and so give that a shot with your kiddos you know it makes it much easier when they see somebody gives them a sticker and they can trust you it's hard to get that trust on the pediatrics rotation so stickers goes a long way guys those are my eight resources on how to just crush your rotation obviously your shelf exam but then also how to get honors and how to kind of make your patient experience a little bit easier if you did enjoy it I want you to give me one comment what is one resource you're kind of planning on using based off this video or if you're done with your pediatric rotation what is one resource to use that maybe I didn't include or that I did include but you really enjoyed as well comment below with your feedback I love to hear what you guys think now we talked a lot about resources are you interested in just kind of tips in general pediatrics heck are you even more interested on how to do better on all your rotations throughout all your clinical rotations getting honors you know making step two a little bit easier and finding that balance you know you want your third year to be something you enjoy not just something you try to survive through because this is going to be your future after all if that sounds like something you want to have more information about again I recommend you check out the clinical guide which is a project I'm working on to try to give you as much advice and one little kind of guide which you can use to just crush your rotations but I don't want it to just be tips for me based off of what I think you want I want 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