Books to buy as a 4th year

Try these:

So You Wanna Be a Rock & Roll Star By Jacob Schlicter
or
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Starting a Band by Mark Bliesener

they are available from amazon:

The above books are very good, and will undoubtedly serve you well on your rotations. Here are some additional recommendations.

Netter's Concise Atlas of Orthopaedic Anatomy
Handbook of Fractures
Tarascon Pocket Orthopaedica

Another (much more expensive, but very good) book is Hoppenfeld's Surgical Exposures in Orthopaedics -- it can usually be borrowed from the Ortho resident library, but has all the anatmy pimping questions answered.

the above books are great and you will udoubtedly continue to use Zuckerman's fracture handbook and netter's anatomy:

though to start out I found

Hoppenfeld's Physical Exam of the Spine and Extremeties and
Delahay's Essentials of Orthopaedic Surgery

very useful and concise for a first time overview of ortho topics.

study your anatomy, and learn "crazy train" on guitar. good luck.

if you don't learn stairway to heaven and comfortably numb, you have completely wasted your time.

Crackbone

note that there are 2 fx handbooks ... there's some discussion on orthogate re which is the better one to get ... i don't recall the conclusion, but just make sure to look into it a little.

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Make sure you get "Getting into residency" written by Iserson. It is very very useful when it comes to making your application through ERAS and interview question types. I found that when I went for interviews for ortho residencies, it was a hit or miss when it came to pathological types of interview settings. This book helps you through most of the possible question types ranging from fair to retarded. The books mentioned above are good for ortho rotations.

I agree with the books mentioned above. I had two weeks off between 3rd and 4th year and read Delahay & Wiesel's Essentials of Orthopaedic Surgery cover to cover. It is a little old (last edition was in the mid 90's, i think), but give a basic overview of ortho. it is written on the med student level so I though it was perfect introduction. It is a quick read, could easily do in a few days, i spread it out over two weeks as I was on vacation.

during rotations, i used both Hoppenfelds (PE & atlas) and always had the Netter Ortho Atlas in my white coat pocket. I didn't do any trauma so didn't use any trauma handbooks.

All of the books mentioned are great. One book that I highly recommend is Hoppenfeld's orthopeadic surgical approaches (it has a blue cover). This book goes through the different approaches, illustrating the anatomy, and, most importantly, it highlights the structures (i.e. nerves) to stay clear of, which are usually the classic "piimp" questions that med students get in the OR.

As a recent rotator at 5 different programs (matched), would say that I got a lot of mileage out of those already mentioned. The first three are money WELL spent.

Netter's Concise Atlas of Orthopaedic Anatomy
Handbook of Fractures
Tarascon Pocket Orthopaedica

Hoppenfeld's surgical approaches would fall in this category if not for the price -- agree with previous post that you can read it in the resident library -- however it is undoubtedly the highest yield. Hoppenfelds "physical examination of spine and extremities" is a classic and worth the $50 price tag.

I was a big fan of the palm pilot. There is a 5 Minute Ortho Consult which made me look much smarter than I deserved (as did the tarascon pocket orthopaedica).

All told -- don't go too crazy on books. $250 max can get you all that you will ever need... or have time to use.