Clinical Anesthesiology by Edward Morgan and Maged Mikhail

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Clinical Anesthesiology by Edward Morgan and Maged Mikhail


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Clinical Anesthesiology has value no matter what stage of your training you are at. Each and every line is important. What you get out of it in your first year is different from what you get out of it in your final year. It is very helpful for the boards. You can get tired of reading massive chapters in Miller or Barash, so instead you can do the same chapter from Morgan and get concise information. Thus you won’t feel daunted when it comes time to take on the larger detailed version in Miller. A must read during your first year of training. This new edition has made some nice improvements over the former edition.

What do the forum members have to say about the book?
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[NursePink]

Yup... a staple of anesthesia education. This book is a must have for me. User friendly & not as tough to read as Barash.

[berry]

this my fav text book i use. Iit is deeper than Basics but more concise that Barash

[Diprivan]

This is the best and most important book I own. Read 10 pages, 4 nights a week. You'll be done in about 6 months. (Easier said than done):stoned:

[AmiK25]

We actually have an exam over this textbook next summer...yes, the entire book. We just took the Baby Miller exam a couple weeks ago and I am going to start reading M & M now....I like the 10 pages four nights a week idea..thanks!

[RN29306]

We had book tests as well over Baby Miller and M&M.

[MmacFN]

how far into school would you have such a comprehensive test?

seems it couldnt be done early on.

[RN29306]

Our school was designed in such a way that all classes were completed by December of our senior year...we graduated in August.

When we received our 4th director in 27 months...we started taking the book tests as a way of keeping us reading.

The Basics of Anestheisa test was given in the fall of our Senior year on top of regular classes and clinical. M&M was given in the late spring / early summer of our Senior year, after classes were completed. The M&M test was given as a two part test, with one test covering the first 1/2 of the book and the second covering...you guessed it, the second 1/2.

Good way to encourage reading eh?

[MmacFN]

hmmm

I think that sortof testing is usually ineffective. Wouldnt a better test be clinical scenarios and management? Why test for rote memorization?

What do others think?

[RN29306]

hmmm

I think that sortof testing is usually ineffective. Wouldnt a better test be clinical scenarios and management? Why test for rote memorization?

What do others think?


While you may have a point on the efficiency of such a test, keep in mind these tests were given in such a manner that if you failed the test you were given a retest. Fail the retest and your graduation is delayed.

I agree on clinical scenarios and management, but no one asked me about my education....It was more like "My question is not why I need to jump so high, but how high to you want me to jump?"

Just the way it is.

[MmacFN]

too true!:matrix:

[AmiK25]

Our tests were a little different. The Basics test is in August, the end of the first year. We pretty much used the summer term to read the book/study. Of course, that is on top of full-time clinical and a five hour research class at the college of nursing. Next August, we will take the M & M test, so that would be about 4 months before graduation. Our comprehensive tests are averaged into our clinical grade for the quarter, with clinical being 75% and the test being 25%. If you do not receive an 80% average, you fail and would have to stay behing a year and do the whole thing over again. I do know of one person who didn't pass their M & M and had a low clinical grade so they failed the quarter (this was a couple years ago). They had to stay an extra quarter to repeat.