(Part 2) Reddit mentions: The best health science books

Trust the process. You'll learn what you need to learn.

BRS is nice and dense, but somewhat outdated.

Your best resource, by far is going to be Pediatrics in Review (and for NICU, NeoReview). They provide excellent review articles for any topic you might wish to learn about. Read these articles often.

Nelsons is the reference "bible" if you will, but I don't know if I'd drop the dough on paying for a full Nelson's. Nelson's Essentials on the other hand, is quite digestible.

You mentioned Pocket Medicine, and there is a Pocket Pediatrics, but I've never used it. Harriet Lane is definitively the standard reference but a bit thick to stick in a white coat pocket (every halfway decent program has like 4-5 of these strewn about the resident work-room).

The good news is, you can sort of pick and choose what reference texts you want. For board prep you'll get the usual "laughing your way", PREP, and medstudy, etc. I also think it's not a bad idea to pick up a text correlating to your field of interest.

For instance, I like critical care. So I picked up Roger's Handbook of Pediatric Intensive Care (the much more portable version of the larger text).

Hope that helps!!

The best thing I can tell you to do is pay attention and study. EMT is a tough course and there’s an unnatural amount of information crammed into a short amount of time. Get access to whatever book you’re usings online study guide and do the questions. EVERY.SINGLE.QUESTION. And then do them again. The end of chapter quizzes are great to study for the exams as most come straight from there. Get yourself a BLS field guide like this one. I used mine all during school and clinicals. If you don’t know the answer to a question just say you don’t know. Don’t try to bullshit the answer. Don’t make up vitals bc you’re literally dealing with people’s lives. Sorry, that may be more than you wanted to hear but it is what it is. I’ve been teaching EMT-B for about 7 years and the best thing you can do for yourself is just study and ask any and every question you have. Good luck and feel free to PM me any questions you have. I’m more than happy to help.

This is a good question - and your situation isn't unique. I can suggest the following: listen to podcasts that are relevant. I can suggest a few - EMCrit, Prehospital and Retrieval Medicine, Sydney HEMS are the ones I listen to. They have great discussion about advanced airway management, including changing ideas in the realm of airway management. Also, read about it. It sounds silly as you just finished medic school, but I can promise you that there is so much more out there on the topic then you were exposed to in school. I've suggested this book before, and I'll suggest it again: Manual of Emergency Airway Management. It's a wonderful place to start when you really want to get good at advanced airway management. Also, run through scenarios, and procedures in your head. Practice airway assessments on patients you'll likely not have to intubate. Use your time at work to learn all the cerebral aspects of managing an airway. It's such a critical skill, we as Paramedics need to be better at at.

Your job, this profession, expects you to be a very proficient "Laryngoscopist". If you only got to preform 1 intubation in school (which boggles my mind! No OR time at all?), then you've got a lot of catching up to do. BUT, knowing you've got work to do to improve is HUGE. Many medics think they know it all, and end up hurting people, and lo-and-behold, eventually they get ETT's taken away from them. You seem to know you need work. Start with my suggestions, and I promise you, you will get better. Just never get complacent.

I am a student in the University of Wisconsin system. Graduated from UW Madison a few years ago, but came back to another system school (uw oshkosh) for a second degree in clinical lab science, as well as picking up some minors in chemistry and microbiology along the way. Something interesting about my university is we have the first anaerobic dry biodigester in the United States (and they never let us forget that in our microbiology courses lol).

I am currently in my last year, which is my internship/clinical rotations year at the hospital, as well as attending normal class. Something I really need is this immunology/serology textbook (used condition of course), because I have been able to buy all of my textbooks I need so far except for this one. Class started back in July (I'm on a short 2 week vaca right now before starting back up, woohoo!) and I'll need this book shortly. Thanks for the contest, and welcome back.

The uwise modules are designed to go hand in hand with the Beckmann Ob/Gyn textbook. The textbook is excellent and a pretty easy read. I only read the text + UWise questions + UW and did excellent on the shelf.

Link to book: Obstetrics and Gynecology https://www.amazon.com/dp/1451144318/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_ElNCxbPM0EJY5

I don't have any advertising books since my clinic kinda does that for me and I'm not hardcore enough to do it myself, but this is my favorite book.

Magee! Massage therapy in a large, heavy nutshell.

When you do get some good resources, could you share them? Eventually I'd love to start my own business, but the start up costs aren't there yet what with saving for a wedding and stuff.

I second every single one of those recommendations (with special emphasis placed on the blood bank and micro texts), but I do want to recommend a different text for Hematology/Hemostasis.

To fill in some other gaps:

This is what we used for Immunology/Serology.

Mycology and Parasitology. Virology was covered using online materials. I honestly found all of those materials a bit underwhelming. Abbott provides a pretty decent PDF on the Hepatitis Virus though.

BioChemistry. Though, the only reason I don't necessarily recommend it over the initial suggestion is because this book is so loaded with information it's honestly overwhelming; however, very very thorough.

Finally, I don't know what other review books people used for the ASCP, but this book's^^[1] publisher^^[2] guarantees you'll pass or your money back. I'm not sure if that information is actually listed on their website or not, it's just something to look into.

My school paired forcmecto do the Lindsay Jones program. It helped quite a lot. We had a three day seminar with a speaker that pretty much reviewed everything we had learned and taught us how to think to pass the tests. I believe there are online ones to do and you can purchase their book on their website.

I also purchased the Pershing review book found at the following link:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1437706746/ref=cm_sw_r_awd_btJsub0NVGKF5

This book us great. My clinical instructor highly recommend it and it was well worth the money. I suggest new because the used that a friend purchased had answers filled in.

Here's a few more links to things I also found on Amazon

• EMT Flashcard book
  
• 12-Lead ECG: The Art of Interpretation (We used this book during my cardiology semester of Paramedic school)
  
• EMS Pocket Drug Guide
  
• BLS Field Guide
  
• ALS Field Guide
  
• Emergency & Critical Care Pocket Guide
  
• PALS Pocket Reference Card
  
• A Quick Study Guide
  
• A book called "Fresh Out of EMT School" (I haven't read it but all of the reviews were positive and said it was helpful)
  
• A book called "Lights and Sirens: The Education of a Paramedic (Also haven't read this one, but I was recommended it and have heard good things)

I can't comment on the UC Bootcamp, but if you aren't already subscribed to Urgent Care RAP, I highly suggest doing so. Here you can get $25 off your subscription.

As far as preparing, review the most common UC diagnoses, which honestly could be just about anything lol. I reviewed this book when I first started out and I still use it as a reference from time to time but now I mostly use UTD.

I did well on my HESI when i took it over a year ago. For anyone that struggled i HIGHLY recommend this book http://www.amazon.com/Admission-Assessment-Exam-Review-3e/dp/1455703338/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1417632975&sr=8-1&keywords=hesi+a2+study+guide

most students do their nursing pre-reqs in 2 years. I did mine in 3 because I was studying other things. After that much time you tend to forget all the little details from those earlier classes. This book really helped me! You could honestly just study from this book and you would do fine in all the sections EXCEPT FOR VOCAB. i literally memorized every single term in this book. not even a 3rd were on the exam. to supplement i recommend just using google.

anyways i am sure you guys did all just fine :) dont sweat it

The general consensus here is to study.
Pick up some literature and start going through it, find someone else with interests in medicine and it'll be much easier on you to study together.
https://www.amazon.com/Emergency-Care-Transportation-Injured-Orange/dp/1284032841
If you are a fan and/or have long commutes start listening to some relevant material. EMCrit is a solid source to learn from.
https://emcrit.org/

Best of luck

I'm glad someone posted this advice. I've found this approach to be tremendously helpful in almost all aspects of my life. Instead of trying to finish a huge project all at once, I set my phone alarm for 5 min, 10 min, whatever I can muster, and work on the project for that time. Then, over the course of the project, I slowly ramp up the amount of time I spend in one sitting.

A very important addendum: if you've agreed with yourself only to put in 5 min, don't try to compel yourself to work on after the time has ended. Force yourself to stop. Otherwise, the 5-min rule will start to seem like a trick you use on yourself to do a lot of work, and it will stop being effective.

A very useful book that discusses the research showing that this approach works is this one. Although the book is geared toward faculty, much of the advice and research is generally applicable.

I think those books are fine, especially Egans since that book is essentially the Respiratory Care Bible.

Eventually, you will probably need Chang for Mechanical Ventilation but that is later on. http://www.amazon.com/Clinical-Application-Mechanical-Ventilation-David/dp/1111539588

Near the end, I would recommend getting a review book like http://www.amazon.com/Respiratory-Care-Exam-Review-Advanced/dp/1437706746/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1422383798&sr=8-1&keywords=persing+respiratory+care+exam+review

Halfway into your last semester, you will need to look into Kettering or Lindsey Jones. Personally and most people will recommend Kettering.

Fail.

The management of patient's with respiratory/airway issues doesn't begin and end with intubation/surgical airways. In fact it encompasses a pretty wide swath of BLS airway maneuvers, proper BVM ventilation, proper medication administration, use of CPAP, SGAs, proper ventilator use, and the use intubation and crics. The fact that you immediately retorted to my comment by bringing up intubating/cric makes me think you have a relatively narrow view of the management of respiratory issues.

Here is something better to ask instead of how many tubes I've had in the last year, why don't you ask me how many people I have avoiding intubating secondary to proper management. Because, to me, that is the mark of a competent practictioner. Obviously first pass success is equally important, but I'll take a medic who can properly manage a pt and avoid a tube, then one who gets one every time.

And again, the management of cardiac pts doesn't begin and end with STEMIs or cardioversions. Even those are pretty straight forward in terms of treatment/management.

The fact is that there are two main types of patients that EMS has the most effect on, those are respiratory and cardiac. Look at any departments meds or equipment and you'll see that probably 80% of the stuff carried on the box are aimed at these pts. So yes these two subgroups are the bread and butter of EMS and to say otherwise is ignorant.

So you seem to me like you're really green, here are some resources that you may find useful in curving your nervousness in managing these patients:

Manual of Emergency Airway Management by Ron Walls

Life in the Fast Lane

Dr. Smith's EKG Blog

EMCrit

I played the free quiz game on LabCE's website. You get questions from all the disciplines until you miss five questions. There are no limits on how often or long you play.

These cards are awesome and they fit in lab coat pockets so you can review them while you are waiting on timers, centrifuges, etc.

I used these two:

http://www.amazon.com/SUCCESS-Clinical-Laboratory-Science-Edition/dp/0135126487/
This one has fairly detailed outlines for each subsection with plenty of questions.

http://www.amazon.com/Medical-Laboratory-Science-Review-Robert/dp/0803628285/
This one only contains questions, but it comes with a CD that has pictures as well.

Get plenty of practice and good luck!

"Advice for new faculty members" by Boice is fantastic. I just finished my first year teaching and my chair have it to me when I got my office keys. Every time I followed the advice in there it turned out great. Every time I thought I knew better and went against it, bit me right in the ass. Highly recommend.

https://www.amazon.com/Advice-Faculty-Members-Robert-Boice/dp/0205281591

Took and passed the ASCP exam in October.

Harr is most representative of the difficulty IMO.

The Bottom Line book is great. SUCCESS is okay, but super dense.

Polansky flash cards: not like the typical flash cards. Just a bunch of information on every card. I used these, Harr, and the bottom line book.

http://www.amazon.com/Quick-Review-Medical-Laboratory-Science/dp/0803629567/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top

My preceptor suggested and I bought [this] (https://www.amazon.com/Emergency-Critical-Care-Pocket-Guide/dp/1284023702/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1492245808&sr=8-4&keywords=ed+nursing+pocket+guide). it was very useful for me at least. Also study up your focused assessments. The Ed was a fantastic place to learn so enjoy!

I like some of the books you have, but I'm kinda surprised at some of the ones that you're missing. Maybe this is a smaller distributor? If you're looking to carry more books, I have some suggestions.

Rattray

McGee

Netter

Hertling and Kessler

Kendall

If I could have no other books in the world, I would have these. The Travell trigger point manuals that you carry are awesome though, I really enjoy those.

ACE-SAT: https://www.amazon.com/Aeromedical-Certification-Examinations-Self-Assessment-Test/dp/061519124X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1468868935&sr=8-1&keywords=ace-sat

ASTNA Patient Transport: PRinciples and Practice https://www.amazon.com/ASTNA-Patient-Transport-Principles-Practice/dp/0323057497/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1468868951&sr=8-1&keywords=astna

Critical Care Transport: https://www.amazon.com/Critical-Transport-American-Orthopaedic-Surgeons/dp/1449642586

Those three books were the majority of my study material going in to (successfully) taking the FP-C exam.

The two pieces of flight medicine you'll need are the flight physiology and the critical care medicine. The flight physiology is pretty straightforward. Gas laws, pressures, altitudes, FAA regulations, and so forth. The critical care medicine is a lot more—you'll need the knowledge of an ICU nurse: lots of drips, lab values, central line pressures, and more.

All stuff well worth knowing.

Admission Assessment Exam Review, 3e https://www.amazon.com/dp/1455703338/ref=cm_sw_r_awd_xvBIub1CQ9A80

I want to say it was this one but I'll have to double check because my boyfriend bought it on his account. This is the top on Amazon. It's definitely worth the money since I passed with flying colors.

Critical Care Transport

Critical Care Nursing: Diagnosis and Management

Air & Surface Patient Transport: Principles & Practice

Also the BCCTPC's handbook has a decent outline for FP-C and CCP-C if you're interested in getting those certs.

I carry the Black Diamond Spot headlamp. I really like it. Like $40 I think, but waterproof and durable, and allows you to go hands free.

Is he planning on going to medic school? If so maybe one of these https://www.amazon.com/Emergency-Critical-Care-Pocket-Guide/dp/1284023702

Urgent care - (especially the moonlighting resident)
Minor emergencies - loved it when moonlighting

Minor Emergencies: Expert Consult - Online and Print, 3e https://www.amazon.com/dp/0323079091/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_LjydAb3CA9MM9

This seems unnecessary...

They make a product that might help you feel more secure in your skills... I used to carry one of these when I first started in EMS, however, I eventually learned that I didn't ever really use it. I eventually ditched the crutch and crossed one more thing off the list as extra weight with no value to my patients.

I did look at it once for the parkland burn formula for a small child with 3 degree burns... I ended up tossing it aside and calling med control who was able to give me the info. I was also able to get additional orders that benefited the patient while on the line with med control.

One thing I will add, however, is the process of making it will probably be much more useful than the actual card itself.

Merrill and Bontrager tend to be recommended by Americans, most of us Brits go for Clark's Positioning in Radiography.

Not read the 13th edition of the big boy book myself (basically everywhere has 12th edition, and I am not paying for a new one lol), but the only thing I disagree with in the first edition (since updated to 2nd edition) of the [little baby handbook for students and such] (https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/Books/Clarks-Handbook-Radiographers-Companion-Essential/1498726992/ref=pd_sim_14_5?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=R5H91P80E0SZ5ZKVP0QH) was the ankle section, they describe a correct mortice view, but then the demonstrated image has their centring... somewhat high... :v

The main other book I consider a "must have" is Accident and Emergency Radiology, but as an ortho resident, you are likely past that (it is basic image interpretation, suitable for a junior doc or the average band 5/6 radiographer), though you might consider giving it a flick through anyway, it's not a long read, and is a very good quality book.

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Edit: Interesting thing about Clark's - go back a few versions from the 12th edition and they were inexplicably using nude patients in a solid half of the demonstration images, flicking between covered and uncovered for seemingly no reason. God knows why. In any of the modern ones, they are all wearing swimsuits, at least!

http://www.amazon.com/Emergency-Care-Transportation-Injured-Orange/dp/1284032841

--This is the best EMT-Basic book in my opinion. BLS care is what saves lives 90% of the time, so this is a great place to start!

These guys do a pretty good course in Harrow if you're UK based, book comes with it. I like it a lot, focused and to the point.
Accident & Emergency Radiology: a survival guide

It’s $$ but sounds like you’re looking for something like Pocket Pediatrics

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0803628285?pc_redir=1397702281&robot_redir=1

This is the only book I used. It was highly recommend by my professors and it was all we used to study for college exams too. It's great in that not only does it tell you the correct answer, it tells you why the others are wrong. I always recommend this book to the students we get. It also comes with a cd with even more questions.

I used the BOC Study Guide (actually I just pulled it out of my trunk and was going to take it to work), 5th edition was the newest then. I also used MediaLab Exam Simulator, we had used it during my program and my subscription was still good (I use it for my CEUs now). I also picked up some review cards (http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0803604599) which were helpful, I would take a few with me wherever I went.

Mosby's is a great book. You may also want to consider Tintinalli's

A pocket medical guide that she can keep in her coat. AFAIK this is one of the best ones that doctors use.

Tintinalli says to cool the burn first. I highly recommend you review the topic before seeing another patient.

Just use the one the ACOG puts out...

https://www.amazon.com/Obstetrics-Gynecology-Charles-Beckmann-MHPE/dp/1451144318/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1467092735&sr=8-1&keywords=obstetrics+and+gynecology

It's very concise, easy to read and highlights important info

Critical Care Transport has a good section on this.
https://www.amazon.com/Critical-Transport-American-Orthopaedic-Surgeons/dp/1449642586

http://www.amazon.com/Pocket-Medicine-Massachusetts-Hospital-Handbook/dp/1608319059

This has everything you need to present and treat internal med patients, and that'll cover a large proportion of what you get on other rotations as well.

Pocket Medicine is a good one to have, just buy it already you won't regret it!

Congrats! Here is an article for you to now read: https://www.chronicle.com/article/10-Things-No-One-Told-Me-About/246187?fbclid=IwAR3THR0qYhkZM0AYzkz4kdHAN-PzT4YXi9mj08ic2vbV-1JJq-ZVjbWr2QA

Also, read this book:


https://www.amazon.com/Advice-Faculty-Members-Robert-Boice/dp/0205281591

If she's practical, I'm assuming you mean something she'd use and not something she just wouldn't buy for herself? If that's the case, I would get her something to use on the job. If she didn't get herself a good quality stethoscope through nursing school, do that. Some nice, tough sheers/scissors are always welcome too. If she already got those for school (and likely did) try something for her to use as she gets used to nursing.

I started (and will likely retire from) ER, so this was probably one of my favorite gifts: http://www.amazon.com/Emergency-Critical-Care-Pocket-Guide/dp/1284023702/

It's got drip rates for critical drugs, and the way they list meds in the back is actually useful, rather than flipping through four pages of tiny printed info just to find out what a drug is for. They make a version for OB/GYN, Peds, ect, just search for her intended field. I know it seems underwhelming, but she'll think of you every time she references it.

A lot of the everyday knowledge needed to be an internal medicine doctor is contained in Harrison's http://www.harrisonsim.com/ Similarly, a lot of the knowledge needed for emergency medicine is contained in Rosen's http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1455706051?pc_redir=1397068775&robot_redir=1 or Tintinalli's http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0071484809?pc_redir=1397103426&robot_redir=1 however I completely agree with the people saying that this is just a fraction of what you learn in medical school and residency. The experience is at least as important, if not more so, than memorizing this info. There are similar books covering every specialty, but for surgical specialties I'd say the experience is even more important than for medicine specialties.

I won't be taking the exam until June of next year, so I'm interested in seeing the resources that others mentioned, too.

My instructors haven't mentioned using anything beyond the BOC, so I have both that and the downloadable program for my iPhone. I have heard very good things about the Polansky flash cards from others.

Manual of Emergency Airway Management

I just ordered it so I can't vouch for it yet but it seems to get good reviews.

Thank you so much!

https://www.amazon.com/EMT-Basic-Review-Manual-National-Certification/dp/0763744662/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1467719995&sr=8-4&keywords=emt+training

Would this be a good resource? I also see this and am not certain if it's something I'll have to buy, should buy, or that would be provided for me, were I to enroll in a course.

Online Med Ed for everything

Surgery: Pestana notes (or the Kaplan review book written by him)

IM: As many COMBANK questions as possible, Step Up to Medicine

Peds: This PDF and Case files or Deja Review Peds

OBGYN: The Beckmann text has some questions ripped word for word. Otherwise, I liked COMBANK

OMM: Savarese and COMBANK

Psych: This

Minor Emergencies by Buttaravoli is a nice resource.

https://www.amazon.com/Minor-Emergencies-Expert-Consult-Online/dp/0323079091/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?keywords=urgent+care&qid=1550879900&s=gateway&sr=8-1

This is definitely NOT the test OP is taking. The book you linked to is for the NCLEX. OP is taking the HESI A2 Entrance exam. THIS is the book OP needs to buy.

Oh, you probably won't find them online since I read that in my old EMT school textbook. As it turns out, nasal airways are actually only in the scope of EMT or higher, so I would stick to OPAs. And about the tourniquets, I'm sure you can read up any recent publications from medical journals and they will discuss tourniquet application times and how they aren't as worried about them as they were in the past.

Accident and Emergency Radiology Best for plain films in the ED

If you're a member of CSMLS/ASCP usually they have free general refresher courses.

Also another option is to invest in the Quick Review Cards They will cost you $60 but will cover everything you need to know in case you switch departments again.

There was a similar thread to this a while back that had a bunch of good books in it but I can't seem to find it . The only book I wrote down was

https://www.amazon.com/Minor-Emergencies-Expert-Consult-Online/dp/0323079091

Assuming my phone formats correctly, here's the Amazon link:

https://www.amazon.com/Quick-Review-Medical-Laboratory-Science/dp/0803629567

[Tintinalli's] (http://www.amazon.com/Tintinallis-Emergency-Medicine-Comprehensive-Tintinalli/dp/0071484809)

[Epocrates] (http://www.epocrates.com/)

Watch ER procedures in YouTube like nail avulsions, I/Ds , interrupted suturing, etc.

You're talking about inpatient medicine, right?

Get yourself one of these pocket medicine books if you haven't already.

Don't just read anything for 30-45 minutes a day. Read about your patients. You're going to need to talk about their pathology, possible diagnoses, and treatment options in the coming days.

On presenting your patients - practice, practice, practice. Print out a template of things you want to go over in your presentation so you have something to follow. (I always tended to get off track or out of order if I didn't follow a set routine.)

EMS Field Guide, ALS Version

In a paramedic program right now, carry this for reference. Also, look up your state's protocols for EMS providers.

Most likely that version. The 13th Edition didnt come out until 2015, I would suggest pairing the 13th edition with the EMS BLS field guide
https://www.amazon.com/EMS-Field-Guide-BLS-Version/dp/1284321029/ref=dp_ob_title_bk

https://www.amazon.com/EMS-Field-Guide-BLS-Version/dp/1284321029/ref=asc_df_1284321029/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=312734685832&hvpos=1o1&hvnetw=g&hvrand=9510838055719948323&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9030783&hvtargid=aud-802037562948:pla-493296460711&psc=1

The Harr book is call you need.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0803628285/ref=pd_aw_fbt_b_img_3?refRID=1PDVYHCBFW6KS037BK0Y

Here is the desktop version of your link

Emergency Care And Transportation Of The Sick And Injured (Orange Book Series) https://www.amazon.com/dp/1284032841/ref=cm_sw_r_awd_Qe6Cub1D0X64E

I'm in the basic class now and this is my book. They offer online books also if that is cheaper. Any questions on anything in particular, feel free to ask me and I can look in my book for you!

1. The ASCPi is such a new thing I have no idea how a lab manager would perceive it. If anything the ASCPi is used internationally as an ASCP outside of America, not the other way around. If anything the lab manager will probably ask the interviewee what the ASCPi is. There is no definitive answer on this.
   
   2 and 3. This is an INCREDIBLY broad question. The test is VERY difficult and inclusive of the full range of the MLS profession. The can ask you what disease state and ANA stain indicates and then which of these bacteria are urease positive the next.
   
   There is no ONE book that will go over everything.
   
   This one looks good to start off with and not that expensive.