books/resources for incoming IM PGY-1?

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Permalink Reply by Deo Rivera on April 12, 2009 at 6:44pm

hey Dr. D what resources for incoming PGY1 in IM will be very useful?

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Permalink Reply by Cyber MD on April 12, 2009 at 8:05pm

Hey Deo,
congrats that you matched/prematched (I assumed).
These are the usual study material that would need in PGY1:
1. Uptodate (will be most likely available in your hospital) (also available in PDA)
2. Sanford Infectious disease guide
3. Epocrates PDA software for drugs
4. Pocket Medicine (Massachussetts General Hospital).
5. Washington manual.
You will find these books here in this website

So which program did you match at?

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Permalink Reply by Deo Rivera on April 12, 2009 at 9:14pm

Thanks a lot Dr. Cyber D!!

i did went to match&blessely match at John;s Hopkins Uni/sinaihospital IM program here in Baltimore..me&my family will not move&since Ive been working as ICU nurse in the same hospital i know the system&some of the attendings..Its a blessing to me&to my family,..Thank you very much for your honest answers..

God bless you!!!

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Permalink Reply by Deo Rivera on April 12, 2009 at 9:18pm

BTW Dr. D what PDA or smartphone do you recommend?what do you use right now?iphone or pocket PC? this is for epocrates software..

thanks in advance

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Permalink Reply by Cyber MD on April 12, 2009 at 9:57pm

Hi Deo,
Great to hear that you matched in your city itself. I am happy for you.
I use Palm centro. I love Palm for its stability and multiple third party softwares which are available. Most of the medical students and residents in our program use Palm. Regarding Centro, the only problem is that it does not have wifi. So if you decide to go for Palm, then i would suggest Treo rather than Centro.
If you would like to go for Iphone, check whether your hospital electronic medical record software is compatible with iphone. Since Iphone is new, it might not be compatible with some of our pda medical software.
I would not recommend windows mobile PDAs as it might get hanged sometimes. It happened to me and then i switched to Palm.
Deo Rivera said:

BTW Dr. D what PDA or smartphone do you recommend?what do you use right now?iphone or pocket PC? this is for epocrates software..

thanks in advance

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Permalink Reply by Deo Rivera on April 12, 2009 at 10:26pm

Thanks a lot Dr. D..you inspired us to follow your footsteps..do you use your medical software esp if your on call?what are the advantages of it>sorry to ask too much coz this will be my 2nd time that i will use such medical softwares..The first one was 6 yrs ago^i was not able to use my Palm pilot w/ medical softwares as much as i want..and i dont want to buy another one that I may or may not use..thats a lot..ur one of great people here helping others to get the dream they want to..

Cyber MD said:

Hi Deo,
Great to hear that you matched in your city itself. I am happy for you.
I use Palm centro. I love Palm for its stability and multiple third party softwares which are available. Most of the medical students and residents in our program use Palm. Regarding Centro, the only problem is that it does not have wifi. So if you decide to go for Palm, then i would suggest Treo rather than Centro.
If you would like to go for Iphone, check whether your hospital electronic medical record software is compatible with iphone. Since Iphone is new, it might not be compatible with some of our pda medical software.
I would not recommend windows mobile PDAs as it might get hanged sometimes. It happened to me and then i switched to Palm.
Deo Rivera said:

BTW Dr. D what PDA or smartphone do you recommend?what do you use right now?iphone or pocket PC? this is for epocrates software..

thanks in advance

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Permalink Reply by Cyber MD on April 13, 2009 at 3:43pm

Hey Deo,
Uptodate and epocrates are the ones which you use regularly every day. If you have net-connected computer everywhere in your hospital, you might not even need the PDA sometimes. However PDA is additional convenience.
In your case, I would not buy a PDA now. Rather I would wait until the need arises (after you start your residency and check for yourself if it is really needed).


Deo Rivera said:

Thanks a lot Dr. D..you inspired us to follow your footsteps..do you use your medical software esp if your on call?what are the advantages of it>sorry to ask too much coz this will be my 2nd time that i will use such medical softwares..The first one was 6 yrs ago^i was not able to use my Palm pilot w/ medical softwares as much as i want..and i dont want to buy another one that I may or may not use..thats a lot..ur one of great people here helping others to get the dream they want to..

Cyber MD said:

Hi Deo,
Great to hear that you matched in your city itself. I am happy for you.
I use Palm centro. I love Palm for its stability and multiple third party softwares which are available. Most of the medical students and residents in our program use Palm. Regarding Centro, the only problem is that it does not have wifi. So if you decide to go for Palm, then i would suggest Treo rather than Centro.
If you would like to go for Iphone, check whether your hospital electronic medical record software is compatible with iphone. Since Iphone is new, it might not be compatible with some of our pda medical software.
I would not recommend windows mobile PDAs as it might get hanged sometimes. It happened to me and then i switched to Palm.
Deo Rivera said:

BTW Dr. D what PDA or smartphone do you recommend?what do you use right now?iphone or pocket PC? this is for epocrates software..

thanks in advance

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Permalink Reply by Deo Rivera on April 13, 2009 at 5:27pm

Dr. D,

Thanks a lot for your reply.. I will do that as you said..Hope eveything will be okay w/ us;)

Deo
Cyber MD said:

Hey Deo,
Uptodate and epocrates are the ones which you use regularly every day. If you have net-connected computer everywhere in your hospital, you might not even need the PDA sometimes. However PDA is additional convenience.
In your case, I would not buy a PDA now. Rather I would wait until the need arises (after you start your residency and check for yourself if it is really needed).


Deo Rivera said:

Thanks a lot Dr. D..you inspired us to follow your footsteps..do you use your medical software esp if your on call?what are the advantages of it>sorry to ask too much coz this will be my 2nd time that i will use such medical softwares..The first one was 6 yrs ago^i was not able to use my Palm pilot w/ medical softwares as much as i want..and i dont want to buy another one that I may or may not use..thats a lot..ur one of great people here helping others to get the dream they want to..

Cyber MD said:

Hi Deo,
Great to hear that you matched in your city itself. I am happy for you.
I use Palm centro. I love Palm for its stability and multiple third party softwares which are available. Most of the medical students and residents in our program use Palm. Regarding Centro, the only problem is that it does not have wifi. So if you decide to go for Palm, then i would suggest Treo rather than Centro.
If you would like to go for Iphone, check whether your hospital electronic medical record software is compatible with iphone. Since Iphone is new, it might not be compatible with some of our pda medical software.
I would not recommend windows mobile PDAs as it might get hanged sometimes. It happened to me and then i switched to Palm.
Deo Rivera said:

BTW Dr. D what PDA or smartphone do you recommend?what do you use right now?iphone or pocket PC? this is for epocrates software..

thanks in advance

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