 So you want to do well on your internal medicine rotation, you want to crush yourself exam, you want to get those honors. How do you do it and what resources do you need? In this video I'm going to give you my top seven resources that are going to help you just crush that exam. I'm going to give you those resources after the Centro. All right guys what is going on? Lux here for the empty journey helping you succeed on your medical journey with less stress. If you're new to this channel first of all welcome my name is Lux. I'm a fourth year medical student who's going into internal medicine I'm going to give you the resources that helped me do well in the rotation as well as get honors. I'm going to start with number one which is the king of all kings you will. Obviously you know you will if you're on rotations or if you even are a first or second year med student but you world for internal medicine is like on another level. It's 1400 practice questions at least from the time that I remember and it is a lot. I'm actually going to link in the description to a blog post that breaks down my exact study schedule to get through all 1400 if not once if not a couple 1.25 iterations which is what I was able to do to check that link out in the description down below to help you basically finish all those questions and still have some time to review for the shelf example but you need to make sure you do these practice questions because they are the cream of the crap when it comes to information and just practice that you can do for the actual thing so make sure you have your world on your resource list. So resource number two are Anki decks. Now I loved using Anki and it's really great for internal medicine which although it is a very time intensive rotation there's a lot of downtime. You know you have lunch lectures some of them which may not be amazing so you can do some flash cards there you may be waiting for your tending walking back and forth from your car from like the garage. I'll go ahead and also link down in the description some flash cards that I loved using that were pre-made. There's about 2,000 of them and so a lot of information but they're all high yield and so again you can do these just add them to your phone or your iPad do them during some downtime. You're going to be able to do better on your U-World questions because some of those questions are taken from U-World practice questions and then are you then going to be able to do better on your shelf exam so again all the resources I'll talk about will be linked down in the description including those Anki decks so make sure you add those Anki decks to your resource list. So resource number three and this is probably my favorite resource of all time for your 30 rotations is online medit. Now if you're a student that just loves to have all your resources in one place you love to have the information kind of the teaching as well as the practice questions the flash cards just all of it in one place online medit is going to be for you. Now I made a very detailed review post as well as video all about online medit and so again I'll link that down below the description but it's helped me transform my rotations as well as my step two score so again if you want to watch that that'll be in the description below but for internal medicine it's just amazing because if there's a specific field or in internal medicine that really gives you trouble if you struggle with nephrology like this guy then you watch those videos or just look through those notes because they're very high yield and they're broken down to how an internist thinks you know a lot of things that we do are things such as like electrolytes or decision-making and you have to be able to understand what's your next step and the notes from OME you know kind of like the flow diagrams of what decision you need to make you know what diagnosis you should be considering and what treatment options you should make those notes are just amazing so I highly encourage you guys check out online medit if you haven't already if you do want a discount I got you guys my friends at online medit hooked me up and hooked you guys up with $80 off for an annual subscription so again the link will be down below in the description and you can use coupon code OMV18 at checkout and will help you get $80 off an annual subscription if you do have issues with that coupon code just comment down below and I can update with the more correct if they updated it but check out online medit I think you guys will love the notes the videos are amazing and everyone loves them and the practice questions that flash cards are definitely underrated but they'll definitely help you out if you want some more practice so resource number four and this is kind of the go-to text that people use is step up to medicine now again here's a screenshot of here I'm not somebody that loves to use text because usually they're very bulky I don't learn very well from reading material anyways but step up to medicine is usually used by many students who do like to have a text in their backpack that they can take or just kind of put a kindle or ebook version on their iPad and just read through it is 500 pages long so it is one of the longer texts or any of the rotations but it is really well written there is something for every single topic so the approach that I would recommend that you take especially if you're somebody like me that doesn't really learn from reading a 500 page textbook is to use a specific skimming technique which is I will skim through a specific chapter I will go from page one to all the way 500 and as I'm skimming if there's a specific portion of the page that makes me uncomfortable when I skim through it then I stop and I really invest my time but if I'm going through something like heart failure or something like COPD where I see enough patients with it I feel pretty comfortable taking care of them then I keep skimming and going by but again if I get to the nephrology section I'm pretty much reading that detail because it's a topic that I struggle with and so find whatever that is for you and maybe a lot at the first time around and you can use a skimming technique to get to the book faster another way to do going through a book like step up to medicine is do the you will questions obviously start them early you know again down below the description I'll refer to my top tips for the internal medicine rotation so it's more than just about the resources but just how to do all the rotation in general but one thing I recommend you do is do the you will question early because when you can do them early then you can go back to the book and refer to the specific sections and topics that really have given you trouble versus going from page one to 500 you're just focusing on your weaknesses there's 1400 practice questions so if you can get through them you can probably go back and forth through your weak points and just master the portion of the book that you're having some difficulty with but definitely still check out step up to medicine or the link will be in the description down below and you guys can see what other people have thought about it on Amazon and just kind of get a feel for what a book is like so again link will be in the description highly check it out if you guys want a text to go with your rotation so resource number five this is something that usually people have at the very end of their kind of study plan are the NBME practice test now it's best when you're taking the shelf exam to go to the people that make the actual exam and so that's exactly what the NBME practice exams are I believe there are four of them and they are basically like the real thing often I see some of the practice questions show up on the real thing so if you can do well in these practice questions again an idea of where your grade is at you're gonna do well so that do encourage you to follow a very strategic plan to finishing your questions that way you still have time on doing the practice test because they do take about a day maybe another day to review them so there's four of them and encourage you guys to go through all of them probably want to leave that last week to go through those exams thus that means you have to finish your your old questions a little early so go through that link in the description down below on how to strategize your old questions as well as a practice exam so make sure you check out the NBME practice test and the last two resources that I'll give you are things that people don't really talk about a lot this number one is pocket medicine I'll put a screenshot up below you guys have probably seen this that fits in the white coat nicely now by no means this is the resource to help you study for the shelf exam but it's a great reference material to help you do well on the rotation and in my last video where I just talked about tips for the internal medicine rotation I refer to the pocket medicine method I encourage you guys to use it what basically says that if you get a new patient you know regardless if you're comfortable or you know uncomfortable with the condition that patient has go through a section in pocket medicine and read through it again and read through it that night whatever you may have to do if you have 10 patients during your I am rotation with COPD each time and read through the COPD section because each time you're going to be able to gain more and more nuances to disease and the management you're going to be able to do a much better job of taking care of that patient so add pocket medicine to your list just have it in your you know side pocket you can find the previous edition which is just as good for a lot cheaper so again I'll be linked in the description below but it's going to make your I am rotation a lot simpler and finally the last resource which most people don't talk about but it is a huge plus it is the PowerPoints from San Antonio Medical School so I'll link them down below in the description but they are just high yield PowerPoint slides that will go from every single organ system and the top diseases that show up on the shelf exam there's usually some videos that come to it but I haven't been able to access them because I think they're really meant for utesca medical students but the PowerPoints are available to all of you guys I do encourage you guys to check out the PowerPoints and give yourself the last couple of days just do some final review and flip through the PowerPoints because they really are kind of put into a question the Q&A format so it's great for your final review to see if you can actually answer all those questions but the utesca PowerPoints for internal medicine are super helpful and so I encourage you guys to have them as kind of your latter part of your study plan but guys those were my top resources for the internal medicine rotation not only just do well on the words but to obviously do well on your shelf exam hopefully you guys found them helpful maybe I've missed something if I did add the resource down below in the comment section and also comment if you have finished your item rotation what's your favorite resource that you use what's the most effective technique that you found to help yourself do well on the rotation all down the comment section down below I'd love to hear your guys thoughts you do have any questions as always you know comment below and I'll be happy to help you guys I'm finally I want to end where where you can kill next if you want more help on not just I am but all of your rotations all of your third year curriculum to do well and kind of prep yourself up for residency which is right around the corner and that is my newest book that's coming out it's called the pre-clinical guide I highly encourage you guys to check it out it's coming out the very end of February and I'm not only writing a book but adding some more amazing bonuses that I'm going to be revealing first to a special group of subscribers and readers that are interested in kind of helping me craft the final product so if that's you and you want to know what that special format is and what the bonuses are in the link down below in description you'll find kind of a sign-up sheet and I will give you updates as the pre or as the clinical guide is written and kind of finished so add yourself down to that list and I promise you guys you will be happy with the results but as always if you guys enjoyed this video make sure you give it a like subscribe to the channel and join the community thank you guys so much for all that have done so already and as always I will stop babbling like I always do and I'll see you guys in the next one take care guys