General Surgery at Highland Hospital

1. Tell us the rotation AND site you just completed (ex. OBGYN, Kaiser Oakland)

Surgery, Highland

2. What books/tools did you use for this rotation?

You need Recall. Liu’s book Case Files is an easy way to learn a lot and useful for the shelf. Others used NMS, Blueprints. Pretest is helpful but don’t be fooled if you start to answer those q’s right–the shelf is more difficult!

3. Describe your call schedule. Ex. # days on call, what time you realistically got out, etc.

Take call like once/twice a week and front load it so that you don’t have to take a lot of call towards the end. You work hard on call.

4. How did you prepare for the finishing exam/shelf exam. How would you prep differently if you could do it again.

Study when you can starting in the beginning and take every chance to see cases that are bread and butter shelf stuff, like AAA repair even if you’re not on vascular. Bone up on the fancy stuff that the Parnassus kids get to see all the time.

5. Comment on one or more aspect of the rotation

Work hard, be brave. Be somewhat afraid of clinic but do your best–it’s a great opportunity to help your pts.