Gynecology Rotation: Recommended books

[Guest Ian Wong]

Here's just some recommendations for both textbooks and ward books based on my experiences in this rotation. I don't claim to know what's best, but this is what I used for this rotation.

 

Recommended books for Gynecology (pretty much the same as for Obstetrics):

 

In your white coat pocket:

1) Tarascon Pharmacopeia

2) Maxwell's Quick Medical Reference

3) Sanford's Guide to Anti-Microbial Therapy

4) On Call: Principles and Protocols ISBN: 0-7216-5079-1

 

At home so you can read up in your spare time (what spare time?)

 

6) Blueprints Obstetrics and Gynecology ISBN: 0632-04489-6

or

6) Beckmann's Obstetrics and Gynecology ISBN: 0781-72480-5

 

Tarascon, Maxwell's, and Sanford's should be de facto members of your white coat until you graduate med school, and probably still after that.

 

Keep On Call with you because just like in Surgery, you'll get pages from the nurses for low urine outputs, post-op fevers, etc. In Gynecology, you avoid all the post-partum mothers, but now your patient base starts to age upwards. Many of your patients will be post-op after having hysterectomies, oophorectomies, or surgeries to remove cervical ca, etc. As the patient age goes up, your patients get more complicated and require more intensive work in the post-op period before they can go home (although it isn't as bad as say General Surgery)

 

For further reading, use either Blueprints or Beckmann's as both are very good. Blueprints is more focussed and concise, but obviously lacks that n-th level of detail. If you are considering incorporating OB/Gyn into your practice, go for Beckmann. Otherwise, Blueprints is just the right amount of knowledge in a small enough package to be readable.

 

The major goal you should get out of Gynecology overlaps a fair amount with Obs. Know your STD's, know about contraceptives. You also need to get good with the times and dates for screening tests for things like Pap smears, or what current mammography recommendations are. Know about menopause, and the current controversies there, such as hormone-replacement therapy. Basically, cover your big women's health issues like menopause, osteoporosis, breast/ovarian/cervical/uterine cancer and screening procedures, know about stuff like abortions/ectopic pregnancies, and you'll do okay.

 

Ian

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[Guest Ian Wong]

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Ian