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Hi Everyone!!

I was asked by @dankamphetamemes to share my holy grail textbooks and I did, but I thought I’d do you guys one better. I recommended that you should check them out in PDF versions before you buy them because honestly they’ll burn a hole through your pocket - so I gathered all the books I use and a couple of others for you to check out!! 

Heres a list of books you’ll find in my google drive:

- Robbins and Cotran’s Pathological Basis of Disease

- BRS Pathology

- Lippincott’s Biochemistry

- Lippincott’s Pharmacology

- Physiology by Linda Costanzo

- BRS Physiology

- Moore’s Clinically Oriented Anatomy

- Gray’s Anatomy Flashcards 

- Unfortunately I couldn’t find a PDF version of Medical Microbiology by David Greenwood - Ill keep looking and upload it when I find it

Extra books/flashcards:

- Guyton and Hall Textbook of Physiology

- Clinical Microbiology made ridiculously simple

- Netters Anatomy Flashcards

- Snells Clinical anatomy by regions

If you happen to face any trouble downloading them or accessing them shoot me a message and let me know

Here’s the link - enjoy!!

Hi everyone - I’ve added the following books to the drive!

- Atlas of Histology

- BRS Embryology

- BRS Gross Anatomy

- Gray’s Anatomy Review (really good MCQs)

- Guyton and Hall Physiology review (MCQs)

- High Yield Immunology

- Medical Pharmacology at a Glance

- Microbiology with Diseases by Body Systems

Let me know if you have any specific books you’re looking for :)

Hi everybody - I’ve added the following books to the drive

- BRS Cell Biology and Histology

- Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine

- Mechanisms of Clinical Signs

- The Netter Collection of Medical Illustrations, Muscoloskeletal System- Vol 6, Part III 

- Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine,19th Edition

- Davidson’s Principles and Practice of Medicine, 22nd Edition

- Emery’s Elements of Medical Genetics, 14th Edition

- BRS Pharmacology (MCQs)

- Lippincott’s Illustrated Q&A Review of Histology

- Lippincott’s Illustrated Reviews; Immunology, 2nd Edition

- Lippincott’s Illustrated Reviews: Microbiology

Alright, Here are: 

Dr. Dre’s Top 10 Tips for Excelling as a Third Year Medical Student

1. Be on time!

For Christ sake, be on time! Every time. It is the most simple thing you can do but that simple thing becomes excessively complicated when you sleep a MAXIMUM of 4 hours a night on your transplant surgery rotation. Set 10 alarms if you have to. Don’t let being late be something that shows up in your evaluation. 

2. Always say YES! (to the dress)

I don’t care if it is a rectal exam, abscess drainage, fecal disimpaction, SAY YES! Your goal should be to try at least everything once. You don’t know you don’t enjoy prostate exams until you have done 10 of them. “No” is not in your vocabulary during third year.

3. Read up on your patients.

I prefer UpToDate, which I unfortunately have no stock in. Each patient presents an opportunity for learning. Try to read in real time after you have seen the patient, if there isn’t time, read that night. Not only will it help with your shelf exams but also impress those you work with.

4. Act like the specialty you are on is the one you are going to go into.

You are on urology, pretend to be the ext greatest urologist. You are on OB/GYN, you live and breathe OB/GYN. Getting into this mindset will: make you want to study more for that specialty, make residents and attendings want to show you more cool stuff and give you greater tasks, it will give you a true window into the specialty and if it is the right one for you.

5. Be upfront with your superiors “I want to do well on this rotation”

One of my best rotations, I started by telling the residents “Hey, I want to get honors on this rotation, let me know what I can do to get there.” Why be shy? What is wrong with wanting to do well. Let the residents know I wasn’t messing around. They challenged me and gave me constant feedback on my performance. Crushed it.

6. Let others know where you are going and when you will be back.

I hate hearing “Where is the medical student?” It is simple, tell the resident where you are going, how long you will be there and when you will be back. They can then tell you how to find the team when you return to prevent you aimlessly wandering the hospital halls. Or sending an annoying “Yo, where you all at?” page. I have heard from many colleagues who had evaluations read “Medical student was missing and unreliable.” Don’t let this be you.

7. If you don’t have enough to do help out with other residents patients.

On one of my easier rotations, I was so bored because my patients were not active. I wanted more to do. During rounds, I would listen to the “To Do’s” for the rest of our team’s patients and write them down. I would pick easy ones I could do quickly, Hey I can call speech language pathology for you, Oh I already looked at her urine bag, no blood.

8. Nurses can be your GREATEST asset.

Love them and respect them. They will really save your booty with your patients. They know more than you so listen to them!

9. NEVER EVER EVER ask if you can go home! 

This right is reserved for second semester 4th year medical students. instead, always ask “Is there anything else I can do for you?” I know I know, you want to get home, eat, study, sleep but this is the way it goes. Some residents are cognizant of your needs and let you go. they remember what it felt like to be in your shoes. Yet, some are just plain mean. Making me check a patient for hypocalcemia symptoms at 8pm at night!

10. HAVE SOME FUN!!!!

I’ll add my corollary to #9: Never question an offer/command to go home. If someone in authority (ha, let’s face it, you’re an MS3, EVERYONE around you is “in authority”) tells you to “go home, if you want, there’s not much going on, go on get outta here, I bet you have plenty to study tonight at home”… DO NOT ACT RELUCTANT, DO NOT BARGAIN (”well ok, if there’s no more consults this hour”), DO NOT ASK “ARE YOU SURE?”.

Just go. Be gone, already. These moments are rare in MS3, and you should grab them with both hands as you fly out the door.

Coagulation cascade made simple.

Someone shared this with me on my surgery clerkship and I wanted to pass it forward. 

1) Everything centers around the perfect 10

2) 7 is a lucky number so I keep it to myself

3) 8 and 5 are cofactors

4) 3, 4, 6 do not exist

5) When you draw it out, it looks like a gun, and your trigger finger (TF) would go by the 7. so TF (tissue factor) goes by 7

6) You use guns and trigger fingers in war, so that’s the part effected by warfarin. The other one is heparin

7) The shorter path has the test with fewer letters (PT). The longer path has the test with more letters (PTT).

The last “rule” was told to me by someone else, but it helps me every time, so I’ll include it here:

Because this? This is what men do. Even today, they don’t see women; they see some version of her that speaks to their own masculinity. That part of a girl that makes them feel strong and powerful and righteous in one way or another. 

None of them bothered to see who Peggy Carter really is because none of them cared. All they cared about is how she made them look to the outside world, how their actions towards her made them feel about themselves. The Father, The Knight, The Nice Guy.

And here my girl is, calling them all out on it. Here she is saying, if you actually saw me as a person, you would’ve seen what I was doing. You would’ve known. Don’t blame me for not being able to see past your ego.