 Do you want to do well on your surgery rotation? If you said yes, then in this video you are going to find seven resources that helped me and many of my students just crush the surgery rotation and the shelf exam and I think it's going to help you get honors as well. What are those resources? I'm going to give you those after this intro. All right guys, what is going on? A lecture from Nemety Journey helping you succeed on your medical journey with less stress. This channel and you want to learn how to thrive on your medical rotation and your medical school experience and go ahead and give this video a like, subscribe to the channel and help me get to my impossible goal of 25,000 subscribers. With that being said, let's get into the resource that is just going to help you crush the surgery rotation, which is a very unique rotation. It's all very obvious thing to say. As somebody that's not going into surgery or wanted to go to surgery, it's still a rotation I wanted to do well in and so I use these resources to help me get honors. I'm sure you can too. Now, basically I'm going to be giving each resource a grade from like an A to a C. Now you can kind of see at what level I think a resource should be impactful for you and which resources I recommend. And then any resource I mentioned will also be linked in the description below and as well as any blog posts or videos that I refer to. So again, go ahead and check out the description, but let's get into the first resource. The resource you have to start with when you talk about any rotation is U-Weld. Now U-Weld gets an A for me. And the reason is that the shelf exam for the surgery rotation is very medicine heavy and U-Weld has about 150 questions the last time I checked on surgery questions that are very good for things like appendicitis and gallbladder, things that are very surgery specific, but the shelf exam goes into much broader detail about things that you tend to learn on your internal medicine rotation. So while it is very good for surgery questions, you're still going to have to find some time or resource that's going to help you kind of cover the basis for internal medicine. If you haven't done your internal medicine rotation yet, then I encourage you to also try to do after you finish the surgery questions, of course, to do questions like the GI, the poem and the card section, because those are some of the common systems that end up also showing up on the surgery shelf exam. So do the surgery questions first and then add in those internal medicine questions. If you've already done your rotation, maybe review a few of those topics because you're going to be better and well suited for the rotation. So that is why U-Weld gets an A in my book. Now resource number two is a beast but also super effective and that is D-Virgilio. This is a huge surgery textbook. It's like 700 pages and so that is why it also gets an A. If it was shorter, I would easily give an A plus. It is a text that I use and that reason I love it is because, one, they have great illustrations. They focus on almost any topic you need to know for your surgery rotation and two, and this is my favorite. It's put in like a question-answer format and so basically you have a question and then you have maybe a paragraph or two answering that question, answering that topic. So it's great for people that learn, like myself, that learn in that Q and A format. So if you want to basically get an all-inclusive surgery experience, if you're interested in surgery, I encourage you guys to get this book and you're still going to be able to finish it on your surgery rotation as long as you're not like a Q3 every three-day call system. If you are, then I encourage you not to use this book, but if you aren't, then go ahead and give this book a shot. I really enjoyed it and there's like, you know, a tons of practice questions at the very end as well. So DeepVirgilio for your surgery rotation is like the go-to text. Now the next resource, guys, I'm going to mention is probably the one that deserves the A plus out of all of these and that is Pistana Surgical Notes. This is like such a helpful book and it's only, I think, 140 pages. So if you want something that's small, that basically hits on every high-yield topic in your surgical rotation and for your surgery shelf, you need to get this book. So by this book, regardless of what other resources you use from this video, this is the resource you should be using. And again, it's in a very similar format than DeepVirgilio. It's broken down by topic and then it just hits on with various brief sentences and paragraphs, anything you need to know. And that's basically it doesn't give you any extra fluff. There are some practice questions at the end so you can practice how much you've gained of the high-yield material. So it's a great book to honestly start your surgical rotation with and just get a good exposure to everything. And then read it again at the end of your rotation. It's easily something you can read in a day or two and then do it maybe two iterations during your whole rotation. You're going to be solid for your high-yield material. Again, that'll be linked down in the description below. But the Pistana Surgical Notes, maybe A plus plus in my book. So definitely check it out. Now resource number four is Online MedEd. And this gets an A plus in my book as well. And this is before I was really using it for things like step two. And I've made review videos about it again. This will be linked in the description below. But what made Online MedEd so amazing for the surgical rotations were the outlines of their notes. Surgery is definitely a decision tree kind of field. You want to know is your patient safe enough to go in this direction? What should be the next workup be? You know, what information do you have? And what more should you obtain before you make a decision? Does this patient go to surgery? Does this patient get conservatively managed? There's a lot of criteria that go into it and there's a lot of things to memorize. But Online MedEd does a great job with their notes on basically giving you these very nice decision trees where you're kind of able to walk and follow different variety of situations. And those are going to be the ways a shelf exam is going to be given to. You're going to have a patient, you're going to have a situation and there's going to be one unique feature that's going to break them off into one side of the tree. And then it's going to ask you how do you want to treat them? And Online MedEd is going to basically give you that in a very simple, high yield kind of way. So definitely check them out. The videos are really helpful. But because the rotation is so time intensive, I didn't really have time to use them all. So notes are the things that I try to go through as many times as possible. And again, those links will be in the description below, as well as a discount for you guys if you're interested. So Online MedEd gets A plus in my book for sure. The resource number five is definitely a book that I heard about a lot before I started my rotation. And that's called Surgical Recall. Now, this gets a great of a B for me because Surgical Recall is not a book that you can use to study for your rotation. It's like this thick and it's basically done in a very Q&A format. And it's perfect for when you're attending PIMSU and the OR and ask you questions like, what structures are we looking through? What are the complications? Things that are very particular to a case, but may not show up on a shelf exam. So it's a great book and that you can usually get them really cheap on Amazon. Even older editions. So if you know you have a thyroid surgery next day, just go ahead and read the thyroid section and just be prepared because maybe one or two questions may show up in the OR room. And you just want to look impressive. It's a great way to get honors without like doing well on a shelf exam. So it gets a B in my book just because it doesn't help you all inclusively, but it is a great resource for you to have to look a little more prepared when you're actually in the OR room doing the cases. The next book is called NMS Casebooks. It's a very interesting format on how they basically done it. It's like a workbook per se. So they give you a long vignette of a patient and then they ask you different questions about that patient. You may have an older patient that's about to get surgery or getting work up and then they ask you questions like, do you want to get this patient aspirin? Do you want to stop their diabetes medications? If so, how long should you do it? They're like very practical questions for what you likely will also have to ask yourself when you're about to do surgery on your patients. So it works really well for any of you that like to learn in a very interactive format and may not be the biggest fan of like a Q&A unless you have something to kind of refer back to. So if you enjoy patient vignettes and over time working on them and still learning little bits of details, then I recommend NMS Casebooks. I wasn't able to go through the whole thing, but I did start it. It was a very unique format. I'm sure many of you guys may enjoy that interactiveness, but it still gets to be in my book just because it's probably not the style that majority of med students use as well. And you may not have time to go through all the cases, but it is a little bit shorter than the Virgilio's. So if you want a shorter books and you want the interactiveness, then go ahead and check out NMS Casebooks. Now the final resource that I have for you guys is not really a resource to study, but as a resource to work on your skills. And that is to get a practice suture kit. I cannot tell you how important it is to learn to tie sutures and to do them well, because otherwise you're just gonna be the student holding the retractor for hours on your rotations. But if you can practice your suture skills and you're given the opportunity to go ahead and close an incision and you do it well, then you're gonna continue to be able to get opportunities. So I went ahead and grabbed a cheap suture kit off of Amazon and it worked well. I'll go ahead and link that in the description below too. Other things you can do is find an old towel at home that you may not be using and go ahead and just ask for some sample sutures from like the tech in the OR and they may still have some free ones and then you can practice tying some sutures between like the two folds of a towel. But a suture kit usually does a trick and it usually comes with some sutures as well as like the gear and the equipment. So again, that will be linked in the description. But make sure you get the suture kit because you just don't wanna be that med student that's standing in the corner retracting. You wanna learn those skills, probably one of the few times in your medical career as a med student, you're going to be able to kind of learn while looking silly and dumb practicing. So get the suture kit and that's why it gets A plus in my book because it's going to be something that's going to pay off dividends if you learn it now. But guys, those were my top resources to get honors on your surgical rotation. Hope you guys enjoyed them because I used each and every one of them to some extent to help me do well on not only my shelf exam but also the rotation. So make sure you pick maybe just two or three of them, create a study schedule and don't look back, I promise you they're gonna help you get to the grade that you want. If you guys have any questions, definitely comment down below. Let me know if there's any resources that I forgot or you want me to put a review on or my thoughts, I'll be happy to answer your questions. 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