UCSF Students

January 30, 2010

UCSF Student Book Exchange For Medical Students

Welcome to the UCSF student run book exchange.

You’ve probably collected many books over your years in medical school. This site provides you with the chance to get rid of books that are probably cluttering your room, make some money in the process, and help fellow students.

Or, you’re in need of a book and want to get it for a great deal. Why not get it from a fellow UCSF student and save yourself and them some money as well?

This website brings UCSF student buyers and sellers together to exchange books and other items. We hope you find it helpful.

For now, this site is only for UCSF students and residents and posts are moderated.

DIRECTIONS FOR SELLERS:
1)  Scroll down to the bottom of the page
2) Submit your list of books in the comments box in this format:
- Name
- book name, author, edition, price
- comments about the book and its usefulness
- Email address (so they can reach you)

(Either leave your first and last name and note that it is a UCSF email address, or leave your full email address)

DIRECTIONS FOR BUYERS:
To post a book you are interested in buying, just scroll to the bottom of the page, and follow the same directions for posting as above.

Contact the sellers if you wish to buy a book from them. Review the list of books and then send an email to the students you wish you buy a book from.   Remember that it is ok to contact persons who posted books even if a few weeks back. Those books might still be available..

PLEASE DON’T FORGET TO INCLUDE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS AT THE END OF YOUR POST!

GOOD LUCK!

IF YOU’VE POSTED IN THE PAST AND YOUR BOOK IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE, PLEASE REPOST WHICH BOOKS ARE NO LONGER AVAILABLE AND WE WILL UPDATE THE WEBSITE.

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CATEGORIZED POSTS – NEW FEATURE – IN PROGRESS

THE LINKS ARE TO STUDENT REVIEWS!

When did they post?
vikas.gupta@ucsf.edu - posted on 5/1/2009

GENERAL REVIEW
NMS Review for USMLE Step 1 (National Medical Series for Independent Study) .
- Best offer: Seller: vikas.gupta@ucsf.edu .
Appleton & Lange Review for the USMLE Step 1 .
- Best offer: Seller: vikas.gupta@ucsf.edu .
Deja Review USMLE Step 2 CK .
- Best offer: Seller: vikas.gupta@ucsf.edu .

ANATOMY
USMLE Road Map Gross Anatomy 2nd ed, White
- (like new): $10 ; Seller: Vincent Lam

BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE
BRS Behavioral Science
- Best offer: Seller: vikas.gupta@ucsf.edu .
Underground Clinical Vignettes Step 1: Behavioral Science (Underground Clinical Vignettes: Step 1) .
- Best offer: Seller: vikas.gupta@ucsf.edu .

BIOCHEMISTRY
High Yield Biochemistry 2nd ed, Wilcox
- (new): $20:  Seller: Vincent Lam
Lippincott’s Illustrated Reviews: Biochemistry
- Best offer: Seller: vikas.gupta@ucsf.edu
Underground Clinical Vignettes Step 1: Biochemistry
- Best offer: Seller: vikas.gupta@ucsf.edu

MICROBIOLOGY
Underground Clinical Vignettes: Microbiology, Volume 1.
- Best offer: Seller: vikas.gupta@ucsf.edu
Blackwell’s Underground Clinical Vignettes: Microbiology, Volume 2 .
- Best offer: Seller: vikas.gupta@ucsf.edu

NEUROANATOMY
High Yield Neuroanatomy 3rd ed, Fix
- (like new): $10; Seller: Vincent Lam

PATHOLOGY
Rapid Review Pathology 2nd ed, Goljan
- (like new): $25;  Seller: Vincent Lam

BRS Pathology 3rd ed, Schneider et al
- (writing/highlighting): $10; Seller: Vincent Lam
- Best offer: Seller: vikas.gupta@ucsf.edu .

Underground Clinical Vignettes Step 1: Pathophysiology I: Pulmonary, Ob/Gyn, ENT, Hem/Onc .
- Best offer: Seller: vikas.gupta@ucsf.edu .
Underground Clinical Vignettes Step 1: Pathophysiology II: GI, Neurology, Rheumatology, Endocrinology .
- Best offer: Seller: vikas.gupta@ucsf.edu .
Underground Clinical Vignettes Step 1: Pathophysiology III: CV, Dermatology, GU, Orthopedics, General Surgery, Peds .
- Best offer: Seller: vikas.gupta@ucsf.edu .

PHARMACOLOGY
Underground Clinical Vignettes Step 1: Pharmacology.
- Best offer: Seller: vikas.gupta@ucsf.edu

PHYSIOLOGY
BRS Physiology Cases and Problems 2nd ed, Costanzo
- (new): $25; Seller: Vincent Lam
- Best offer: Seller: vikas.gupta@ucsf.edu

OTHER BOOKS
How to Choose a Medical Specialty
- Best offer: Seller: vikas.gupta@ucsf.edu
Iserson’s Getting Into a Residency: A Guide for Medical Students, 7th Edition .
- Best offer: Seller: vikas.gupta@ucsf.edu .
First Aid for the Match, Fourth Edition (First Aid Series) .
- Best offer: Seller: vikas.gupta@ucsf.edu .

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December 28, 2009

OBGYN rotation at Kaiser SF medical student review

OBGYN rotation at Kaiser SF medical student review

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

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2. What books/tools did you use for this rotation? Tell us which ones were absolutely necessary, somewhat helpful, or total waste of money. Also tell us how you used them.
SOAP OBGYN–great book to use when you’re in clinic, it has a DDx, H&P, labs, treatment, etc. for every imaginable presentation you will see in clinic; Blueprints–a must read, read a chapter or more after you’ve seen a patient (it sticks better); Case Files–A fun read if you have extra time, good for problem solving; Obstetrics, Gynecology and Infertility: Handbook for Clinicians-Resident Survival Guide Paperback by John D. Gordon (the little red book)– It was somewhat helpful. Good b/c you can carry it in your pocket, but the information is disorganized. I thought the best part was at the back of the book, it gives you an outline for different op notes (C/S, GYN surgeries,etc), it also has lots of charts and algorythms. I saw a lot of the residents use it but it wasn’t particularly helpful to me.

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3. Describe your call schedule. Ex. # days on call, what time you realistically got out, etc.
When you’re on call, you serve on Labor & Delivery. There is a some flexibility for setting up your call schedules. i.e. we could trade our assignments with other students, and make adjustments if we had special engagements. A 24 hour call scheduled for a Saturday could be broken up into Friday 5:30pm – 7am AND Sunday 7am – 9pm (leaving you with Sat off). This flexibility is resident dependent so approach with caution. My call schedule was: Week 1: Sat 24hr (7am-7am); Week 2: Fri 5:30pm-7am AND Sun 7am-9pm; Week 3: Fri 5:30am-7pm; Week 4: No call; Week 5 No call; Week 6: No call. So it was pretty crazy the first 3 weeks, but more chill the last 3 weeks.

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4. How did you prepare for the finishing exam/shelf exam. How would you prep differently if you could do it again.
Finishing exam is 100 question shelf exam, plus two essay questions straight out of the objectives section. I tried to read as much Blueprints as possible, and then did all of the questions at the end of Blueprints; Did the UWise questions (which are similar to the Board style questions). If I had to do it differently, I would start doing questions a lot earlier.

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5. Comment on one or more aspect of the rotation as it pertains to: 1) How you survived the rotation 2) What you felt you did well and how you did it 3) mistakes you made and how to avoid them 4) What you did to make the residents’ life easier 5) If, when, and how you found time to read 6) Pointers on how do well on: H&Ps, oral presentation, record keeping, professionalism, self-improvement, and working well with the health care team. 7) Best and worse aspects of the rotation 8) How often you were pimped and how 9) Names of awesome teachers to work with 10) Clinic vs inpatient experience 11) medical contitions or surgeries you saw 12) Anything else that comes to mind
1) Tried to be enthusiastic, Used SOAP OBGYN in clinic, accepted the fact that in clinic some MDs will let you do stuff and others won’t so best to just go along with the flow, very helpful to ask chief resident for feedback, read during down time 2) I got along well with the nurses and medical assistants and ended up learning a lot from them 3) Would recommend following more than 1 patient when you are on L&D to ensure a delivery that day – ok to ask to see more patients than you’ve been assigned only 1 4) fill out op notes, discharge notes, L&D labor notes (every 2 hours), help set up in the OR, look up articles related to a question the residents might have or question on the management or prognosis of a unique patient, type up dry labs (GYN), ask to do PM checks on other resident’s patients (GYN), volunteer to do stuff, ask to do stuff 5) I read most when I was on clinic (went home and read up on a patient or an MD’s specialty like infertility or urogynecology), read least when I was on GYN service, read during downtime when I was on L&D. Always had my Blueprints near by. 6) For H&Ps, I just made a copy of a resident’s note and used that as my guide, just ask for feedback 7) Best aspects are the attendings and many of the residents. I thought overall they were great teachers and good people. The Tuesday conferences/didactics were very good too and focused on the objectives of the class. If the first topic is fetal monitoring, make sure to read ahead for that one, especially if you’re not starting out on L&D. Worse aspects is that there’s a lot of jargon and acronyms in OBGYN and figuring it all out took some time. The hours were ok. 8) I was pimped in clinic (screening and diagnostic tests in pregnancy; vaginal discharge, etc), I was pimped in GYN (abdominal layers, GYN anatomy, arteries/vein/ureter), and I was pimped on L&D (stages of labor, pre-eclampsia diagnosis and management, fetal heart monitoring, ddx for variable and late decels, etc.). I didn’t feel I had a ton of pimping at all, but I sure as hell read up on patients as they were being discussed if I sensed pimping in the air. Each Friday there is pre-op conference with many attendings and residents. The medical students are expected to attend. Expect to get pimped that hour and a half. They like to target innocent med students with cruel questions (j/k) No, actually, it’s all in fun so just try your best to answer the question. 9) There were so many awesome people at Kaiser SF. Awesome Attendings: Jacobson, Sklar, Weiss, Masters, Tseng, Fracchia, Kendrick, Hall, Feigenbaum (interesting character), Sweeting (retiring), Dorward, Fields (I didn’t work directly with him but you will learn a lot from him during antepartum rounds) Best Chiefs: Tsai, George-Wells Best Residents: Lantzman, Tien, Longinotti, Gogia, Tam, Wright, Savage, Kam-Castro. One bad chief resident but she’s moving on so you guys don’t have to worry about it. 10) The 2 weeks of clinic were chill. 9-12, 1:30-5. Went home and read. fast paced during clinic (15-20min/pt), infertility clinic and urogyn were the most laid back, did most H&P when I worked with the residents. Jacobson has interesting way of incorporating you in clinic so don’t be surprised. Just follow along. Inpatient was more fast paced, rounds started at 6am +/- 1 hour. Sign out was at 5:30pm. 12) Just be yourself, be enthusiastic, don’t be shy, ask questions, read often, be prepared, do the best that you can, punctuality on rounds takes priority over all else, don’t take things personally, come in as early as needed to preround so that you’re not shot down during rounds (an R2’s personal motto), have fun and get to know your patients. The patients totally make it all worthwhile. Stay close to the helpful residents and stay away from obviously bad ones. And… be happy when the pimping is aimed at the residents b/c it’s just fun to watch.

OBGYN rotation at Kaiser SF medical student review

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