The Mont Reid Surgical Handbook is a great surgery book for senior medical students and residents.

Below is the list of contents

Perioperative Care
- Medical Record
- Fluids and Electrolytes
- Shock
- Blood Component Therapy
- Nutrition
- Preoperative Preparation
- Anesthesia
- Cardiopulmonary Monitoring
- Wound Healing, Care, and Complications
- Surgical Infections
- The Diabetic Patient
- Thromboembolic Prophylaxis and Management of Deep Venous Thrombosis
- Universal Precautions

Specialized Protocols in Surgery
- Trauma
- Orthopedic Emergencies
- Burn Care
- Acute Abdomen
- Gynecologic Causes of Acute Abdomen
- The Surgical Abdomen During Pregnancy
- GI Bleeding
- Intestinal Obstruction
- Neurosurgical Emergencies
- Malignant Skin Lesions
- Head and Neck Malignancy
- Diseases of the Breast
- Thyroid
- Parathyroid
- The Adrenal Gland
- Neuroendocrine Tumors
- The Esophagus
- Gastric Tumors
- Peptic Ulcer Disease
- Inflammatory Bowel Disease
- Appendicitis
- Colorectal Cancer
- Diverticular Disease of the Colon
- Colitis and Enteric Infections
- Anorectal Disorders
- Gynecologic Oncology
- Jaundice
- Cirrhosis
- Gallbladder and Biliary Tree
- Liver Tumors
- The Pancreas
- Surgical Diseases of the Spleen
- Laparoscopic Inguinal Hernia Repair
- Abdominal Wall Hernias
- Endovascular Surgery
- The Diabetic Foot
- Acute Limb Ischemia
- Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm
- Mesenteric Ischemia
- Urologic Surgery
- Renovascular Hypertension
- Pediatric Surgery
- Cardiac Surgery
- Carcinoma of the Lung
- Cardiac Risk Stratification for Noncardiac Surgery
- Thoracoscopy
- Renal Transplantation
- Liver Transplantation
- Pancreas Transplantation
- The Hand

Procedures
- Management of the Airway
- Tube Thoracostomy
- Thoracentesis
- Bladder Catheterization
- GI Intubation
- Paracentesis
- Diagnostic Peritoneal Lavage
- Principles of Abscess Drainage

Rapid References
- Normal Lab Values
- Conversion Data
- Nomogram for the Determination of Body Surface Area of Children and Adults
- Oxyhemoglobin Dissociation Curves for Whole Blood

Source: Mont Reid Surgical Handbook

General surgery rotation advice for medical students

GENERAL SURGERY ROTATION

What UCSF medical students can expect on their general surgery rotation in Fresno .

Books to use on your surgery rotation .

KNOT TYING

Corner stitch suture technique .

How to tie a knot .

Knot tying (two handed tie) .

How to tie a one handed knot .

The square knot .

How to tie a surgeon’s knot .

SUTURING

Subcuticular suture .

Simple Interrupted Suture .

Horizontal Mattress Suture .

Vertical Mattress Suture .

Pursestring Suture .

Suturing during surgical internship .

Surgery pocket guides for medical students and residents

SURGERY POCKET GUIDES  – You can click on the links to read reviews

GENERAL SURGERY – GENERAL/INTERNSHIP/SURVIVAL GUIDES
The Mont Reid Surgical Handbook
The Washington Manual of Surgery: Department of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine
The Washington Manual Surgery Survival Guide
Portable Surgical Mentor: A Handbook of Protocol for Interns and Residents in Surgery
Schwartz’s Manual of Surgery
The Surgical Intern Pocket Survival Guide
Oxford Handbook of Clinical Surgery (Oxford Handbooks Series)
Churchill’s Pocketbook of Surgery (Churchill Pocketbooks)
House Surgeon’s Survival Guide
Pocket Diagnosis in General Surgery: A Companion to Lecture Notes on General Surgery
Pocket Surgery
Pocket Surgery (Looseleaf with Binder)
Surgical Dictation Pocket Survival Guide
On Call Surgery: On Call Series
Surgery, Sixth Edition

GENERAL SURGERY – SURGICAL PATIENT MANAGEMENT
Practical Guide to the Care of the Surgical Patient: The Pocket Scalpel
Handbook of Postoperative Complications (Oxford Pocket Medicine)
Hospital Surgery: Foundations in Surgical Practice (Cambridge Pocket Clinicians)
The Trauma Manual: Trauma and Acute Care Surgery (Spiral Manual Series)
Preoperative Assessment and Management (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Handbook)

GENERAL SURGERY – SURGICAL ONCOLOGY
AJCC Cancer Staging Manual (6th Edition)
The M.D. Anderson Surgical Oncology Handbook

GENERAL SURGERY – SURGICAL ICU (SICU)
The Handbook of Surgical Intensive Care: Practices of the Surgical Residents at Duke University Medical Center

GENERAL SURGERY – OTHER

Surgical Anatomy and Technique: A Pocket Manual
Suture and Surgical Hemostasis: A Pocket Guide
Surgical Instruments: A Pocket Guide
Pocket Guide to the Operating Room

CARDIOTHORACIC SURGERY
The Cardiothoracic Surgery Resident Pocket Survival Guide
Manual Of Perioperative Care In Adult Cardiac Surgery Fourth Edition
The Johns Hopkins Manual of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Handbook of Cardiovascular CT: Essentials for Clinical Practice

NEUROSURGERY
Handbook of Neurosurgery
Practical Handbook of Neurosurgery: From Leading Neurosurgeons

ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY
Orthopedic Principles – A Resident’s Guide
General Orthopaedics : Orthopaedic Pocket Procedures Series
Orthopedic Traumatology – A Resident’s Guide
Hand Surgery (Oxford Specialist Handbooks Series in Surgery)

PLASTIC SURGERY
Plastic Surgery Secrets
Blueprints Plastic Surgery: Outcomes and Beyond (Blueprints Pockets)
Michigan Manual of Plastic Surgery (Spiral Manual Series)

TRANSPLANTATION
Handbook of Kidney Transplantation (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Handbook)

VASCULAR SURGERY
Handbook of Patient Care in Vascular Diseases (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Handbook)

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The Washington Manual of Surgery

Used this book for surgery clerkship and aced the NBME shelf. This book has all the information you need to shine on a surgery clerkship. It is also ideal for residents/attendings making complex management decisions. Read the full review.

During my internship this book and the Washington Manual of Medical Therapeutics were the 2 books I couldn’t live without. Read the full review.

f you’re looking for the most accurate “condensed” text for your Surgery Clerkship, this book is perfect. Only downside is that … Read the full review.

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CURRENT Diagnosis and Treatment Surgery Thirteenth Edition

“The book is great and I love it. ”

Editorial Reviews

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About the Author

Gerard M. Doherty, MD
N.W. Thompson, Professor of Surgery
Chief, Division of Endocrine Surgery
Section Head, General Surgery
University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI

Essentials of General Surgery

I inititally bought this text in my second year of medical school. It was both an exceptionally detailed text and also a good reference on a wide variety of subjects. I have continued to use it into my surgical residency and expect to do so until I finish. My only detractions are that on occasion it is too densely packed with information, and that the section on peptic ulcer disease and the surgical treatment of the same is a little dated. Otherwise, any topic that a student needs to know about on a general surgical service is _well_ covered by this text.

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This book is very well written and easy to understand. It does not go in great depth like Sabiston, but it is very good for a third year rotation.

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A perfect concise text for medical students on their surgery rotation. This book helped me do better on my surgery shelf than I have on any other shelf exam. Read the whole thing and take notes as you do.

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Schwartz’s Principles of Surgery, Ninth Edition

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The #1 surgical practice and education resource — completely updated and now in full-color!

Praise for the 8th Edition:
“This is an excellent textbook that conveys a complete view of surgery and accomplishes the goals set out by the authors very successfully.”–Doody’s Review Service

Written by the world’s foremost practitioners and instructors, this landmark reference logically progresses from basic science principles, including topics such as cells, genomics, and molecular surgery, to clinical areas such as pancreas. From cover to cover, the book reflects a distinctly modern approach in the dissemination of surgical knowledge, providing up-to-date coverage of all key surgical areas, from trauma and transplantation, to neurosurgery. In each chapter, this content is supported by a skill-building format that includes boxed key points, detailed anatomical figures, diagnostic and management algorithms, an abundance of informative tables, and key references.

For every kind of procedure, this one-of-a-kind clinical companion helps you meet the sequential demands in the care of surgical patients, leading to the best possible outcomes.

NEW TO THIS EDITION:

* Full color design for easier navigation
* 2 new chapters: “Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Core Competencies,” examines the six areas designated as critical for general surgery resident training and “Ethics, Palliative Care, and Care at the End of Life,” offers an overview of biomedical ethics, and surveys specific issues in surgical and professional ethics, the general principles and considerations of palliative care, and care at the end of life
* Greater focus on evidence-based medicine with highlighted references in each chapter and separate key reference list
* Increased number of treatment and diagnostic algorithms
* Key points in every chapter
* International advisory board comprised of renowned surgeons contributes important regional feedback on content and curricula
* Companion DVD of surgical video clips

About the Author

Editor-in-Chief
F. Charles Brunicardi, MD, FACS
DeBakey/Bard Professor and Chairman, Michael E. DeBakey
Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine,
Houston, TX

Associate Editors:
Dana K. Andersen, MD, FACS
Professor and Vice-Chair, Department of Surgery
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Surgeon-in-Chief, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
Baltimore, MD
Timothy R. Billiar, MD, FACS
George Vance Foster Professor and Chairman of Surgery
Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School
of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA

David L. Dunn, MD, PhD, FACS
Vice President for Health Sciences, State University
of New York, Buffalo, Buffalo, NY

John G. Hunter, MD, FACS
Mackenzie Professor and Chair,
Department of Surgery, Oregon Health & Science
University, Portland, OR

Jeffrey B. Matthews, MD, FACS
Dallas B. Phemister Professor and Chairman
Department of Surgery, University of Chicago,
Chicago, IL

Raphael E. Pollock, MD, PhD, FACS
Head, Divisin of Surgery, Professor and Chairman,
Department of Surgical Oncology, Senator A.M. Aiken, Jr.,
Distinguished Chair, University of Texas M.D.
Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX

Product Details

* Hardcover: 1888 pages
* Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional; 9 edition (September 11, 2009)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 007154769X
* ISBN-13: 978-0071547697
* Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 8.8 x 2.8 inches
* Shipping Weight: 9.9 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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The Johns Hopkins ABSITE Review Manual
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The Johns Hopkins ABSITE Review Manual
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The Comprehensive ABSITE Review by Steven Fiser
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Some students like to think of this book as a hybrid of the regular ABSITE Review book and the Senior ABSITE review book. It is also significantly more in depth in each of the categories.

This is not a book you can cram at the end of January. It will take you significantly longer to read through it.

Senior surgery residents have found this book extremely useful.

The book is 450 pages, a length that some students find this too long.  One student writes: “I re-opened my new comprehensive ABSITE review today, and it just really seems long. I tried to envision myself getting through 450 pages of dense material in the last week of January, and I just don’t see it happening.”

The Comprehensive ABSITE Review by Steven Fiser
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