Your education is somewhat self-directed on your off service rotations. These reading assignments are hand selected to be sure you are getting what you need on some of those months. The program coordinator has the assigned books. Check them out at the beginning of those months, and be sure to bring them back at the end!

Cardiology

Mattu and Brady. ECGs for the Emergency Physician 2.

Read the whole thing.

Anesthesia

Brown, Sakles, and Mick. The Walls Manual of Emergency Airway Management.

Radiology

Raby, Berman, Morley, and de Lacey. Accident and Emergency Radiology; A Survival Guide.

I wouldn’t spend much time on the skull chapters (3 and 4) or the abdominal x-chapter (19.)

The rest is gold.

Pay special attention in chapter 1 to how they describe fractures, and get very familiar with the way they describe checklists for every imaging modality.

Orthopedics

Sherman. Simon’s Emergency Orthopedics.

Intern Year

Longitudinal SonoSim requirements:

September: 1. Ultrasound-Guided Internal Jugular Vein Cannulation: Procedure Module
September: 2. Peripheral Venous Access: Procedure Module
October: eFAST protocol: core clinical module
November: DVT – lower extremity: core clinical module
December: fundamentals of ultrasound: core clinical module
January: OB/GYN: core clinical module
February: cardiology: core clinical module
March: 1. Aorta/IVC: core clinical module
March: 2. Renal: core clinical module
April: 1. Pulmonary: core clinical module
April 2. Rapid Ultrasound in Shock: core clinical module
May: Intestinal/Biliary: core clinical module
June: Ocular: core clinical module

(Simulator Assignments are under the “password stuff” tab)

Critical Care

Read every word of both books. They are short.

There is a newer editition. (I haven’t read it yet)

There is a lot in here.

I would focus on chapters 1, 12, 18, 20-22, and 25.