Excellent for Students/Interns
926318
Schuenke's atlas is a great resource for students and beginning residents in ENT/Neurosurgery/Neurology. Every student should have this book on rotations and refer to it often.
79639
This would be a good introduction for those entering into a practicum/internship experience.  Well organized to ready students for situations which may arise in a fieldwork enviroment.
3731224
I am a nursing student. I use these for my care plans, and for various assignments. I love them! I have been recommending them to my classmates left and right.

The little baggy they come with is nice too; I put the medications for my clinical day in there just in case I need to review them.

The best part for me has been the "effects on lab test results." It helps tie everything together and speeds up care plans.
2071790
I'm a first semester nursing student, so I use this book mostly to help with narrative documentation. The organization is pretty good. It only took me a few minutes to get familiar with the layout and I can find things quickly and easily. The size is convenient and eliminates my need to bring a full size textbook to the facility- definitely a plus with all the gear nursing students have to tote around.
I read other reviews that mentioned an error in pediatrics. An instructor of mine confirmed that is definitely an error and that is the reason for my 4 star rating.
Aside from that minor detail, it's a great resource. I don't necessarily use the assessment techniques portion of it right now because assessment is the focus of my course this semester, but I see it being a valuable tool in the future when I need a refresher for focused assessments.
1053619
Got this for my first-year cardio module but I've continually referred back to it throughout rotations and recommended it to all the younger students I've advised. All the information is clinically relevant and clearly presented with helpful diagrams/tables including a section of sample EKGs and real chest x-rays. I also appreciate how they include a list of references at the end of each chapter if you want to do additional reading in the primary literature. It can be vague about treatment details, but specific guidelines change a lot and each patient has unique requirements so you should look those up anyway.
3773385
This is an excellent text book for anesthesia residents starting residency or those near the end of their training preparing for boards. It covers all fundamental topics in a concise and cohesive manner that makes it ideal for learning. In particular I really find the " Did you know? high yield facts throughout the chapter very helpful. These side boxes quickly summarize fundamental points from the main text. Furthermore, all of the chapters have excellent outlines and diagrams and tables that allow one to find targeted information very quickly. Lastly each chapter has multiple choice questions at the end that allow one to ensure they have grasped the major concepts from the chapter. This book is the perfect study companion for any medical student, resident or SRNA because it combines a text book, question bank and narrated videos all in one appealing to all different types of learners. I highly recommend this book be part of any anesthesiologist library!
2047494
For Access, Publisher, One Note, and Outlook, its more of an overview.  Which is fine for many  for myself, I don't anticipate caring much about those first two, ever, and am sufficiently hooked into Evernotes ecosystem that Id probably explore One Note only out of curiosity.  But Id gladly trade some of the minutiae in the other sections of the book for a fleshing out of the Outlook chapter.  Everyone has different needs, but this book offers considerable value for the price, and won't intimidate the intelligent newbie who is looking to get from here to there without investing endless hours memorizing every feature of these programs.

Ive been skimming the Word unit for stuff that is new or might be of particular use to me  while Im far from a MS Word guru, I know the practicalities of getting stuff done therein.  As an Excel neophyte  more or less  Im taking more time with that unit, and yes, it does kind of plod on with various permutation of the basics.  With any text of this kind, its easy to get itchy  e.g., I need to remember how to plug in simple formulas, why are you going on about fonts and borders and shading?!?  But of course the only way to get a solid footing is to play with all the controls.  (sigh.)  This material is sufficiently well organized to skip ahead and come back to pick up the smaller details.  Color coding of the units at the top of each page is an intuitive and welcome feature here, as are the reasonably sized screen shots.

The books voice is straightforward and technical over personal/personable, and I prefer that.

The videos are helpful for visual learners and even non-visual learner me.  Ive got to work through an exercise myself to best retain the material in memory, and Im the person who cant do Audible because I can read So.  Much.  Faster.  But the vids here are relatively painless.  The "Starting Up" section does state that I can watch the videos on any internet-connected computer, but as far as I can see, there is only one sample video on the website as of this writing.  Not a big issue for me as I'm using this book stationed at my desktop and I've loaded the vids from the included DVD, but the (unfulfilled) promise of this, and also (so far) book updates is kinda a sneaky way to get you to register the book.

Once I have enough out of the Excel unit to serve my particular needs, Ill probably rely on the rest of the book as a reference, mostly.  I can see where it will lend itself to that a little better than some, and so recommend this as a truly viable alternative to the hunt-and-peck and ask-somebody-next-to-you style learner.  Many of us know how to dog paddle around MS Office, maybe have just moved up to 2013 and would like to be capable of more, but certainly don't need to be gurus.  This is our book.
3523737
I am a financial consultant that works with parents (with a high school student) to reduce their college expenses and assist them with helping their student create the best college experience possible. I found a recommendation for this book on an education blog and ordered it to see if it might serve as an appropriate gift for the students I work with.

I have a son who is starting his sophomore year in college.  He was home this summer so I thought he could serve as the perfect reviewer. (Just to give you a little background, my son is a very strong student that is very organized and feels he has developed good study skills. Yet he admitted that he found the coursework at college to be very different than in high school and that he was caught off guard during his first freshman semester.)

I asked him to read the book and let me know if the author's tips would be helpful to him or other students.  As he read, he made various marks in the book to indicate where various pieces of advice given is relevant and helpful.  Once he had finished reading the book I went through it and boy did it have lots of marks noted throughout!  He highly recommends the book and believes it will greatly assist him with his studies in the coming year.  He feels the book would be most helpful to students once they complete their first semester in college.  He believes this because until students have experienced classwork at the college level, they will not be able to relate to the material nearly as well since the author shares so much about his personal academic experiences.  Having already completed his freshman year, my son said he could totally relate to many of the examples the author cited, which helped make the author's suggestions more credible to him. My son is typically a tough reviewer, so his enthusiastic endorsement of this book confirms for me that it will serve to be a great gift for the students I work with.

Deborah Fox
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310042
As a practising information designer I found this to be an excellent source of information, especially for students. This book takes people back to basics, something that a lot of modern IT "professionals" overlook.
1107506
I bought this book when i started my residency in the summer of 2007 only because everybody else did, without knowing what it is or how it could be of any help.
It proved though a valuable assistant when i didn't have have immediate access to Uptodate. It actually saved my day in some Program Director rounds when i sneaked behind another colleauge and found the right answer including the reference - guideline in this book...
  It has a lot of evidence based diagnostic and treatment options including very frequently the specific reference - article -guideline which makes your life much easier - you go online and read it 3 hours later, when your patient is feeling better.
  Of course my 2007 edition is not the most updated version but yearly updated versions come out and i think a 2009 edition is coming out soon
Its drawbacks include the fact that it does not cover rare diseases/cases you might encounter, and  it is not the best of references if you need very specific info on subspecialty topics. For these cases you will need something like the Washington Manual Subspecialty series
  It is better than the Washington Manual in that it can fit in your labcoat pocket, but it is including much less details and number of topics.
Overall it is a useful tool for residents/students in Medicine Wards for quick - NOT in depth reference
3438256
This is excellent for a student nurse. I don't even use it for the information on the outside. I love how the clipboard folds and fits in my cargo scrubs.
1369664
I love this set of books.  These books require students to learn not by lecture, but by doing labs and explaining their results.
These books certainly are not appropriate for high school students (the age level I teach), but they are the perfect resource for their teacher.  A high school student needs very clear instructions and needs reassurance that he is on the right track.  These books are not clear enough for these students.
However, as a teacher, I can adapt the material, write my own labs, and give the students something that is on their level.
I've done the electricity unit, as a student, and realized that there was quite a lot about circuitry that I don't know.  I was a Physics major, but I never truly understood the material, I only thought I did.  I'm looking forward to trying some of the other units and finding out what else I don't understand!
The other useful feature of these books is the cost.  The labs use only very inexpensive equipment.  For someone like me in a small, rural school, this is a godsend!  In a few years, I hope to develop my program to the point that my students will get a good, high-level education, and low cost labs help make this possible sooner.
3923829
As a third year medical student currently rotating in Internal Medicine, I find Dr. Ona's collection of "Tips" as an exceptional guideline for any rotation experience. These tips not only guide you on how to get the best out of your clinical experience, but also on how to become a better physician. During our transition into a clinical setting most of us probably read/heard a great majority of these tips already, but admit it!! too often do we get lost in our rigorous daily schedule that we fail to follow these guidelines set before us. At some point we find ourselves caught up in a repetitive pattern consisting of rounds, meetings, lectures, case write-ups and of course progress notes, that we all too often forget to even ask a simple question such as "is there anything I can do for you" to our patients. Use this book as not only a source of guideline on how to get an "A" in the rotation but as a REMINDER of what is expected of you to become a successful medical student, physician, and professional.

As a medical student many of us are eager to get ahead of ourselves, but don't forget the fundamentals and expectations set before us. Take a step back, pull out Dr. Ona's book(yes it fits perfectly in your whitecoat) and take a moment to reevaluate yourself and strive to be the best future medical doctor you can be.
715747
This is the best for someone brand new to schools or social work: I have most reproducibles or know what is stated in the book - will keep it as a resource for interns working at my site
3896976
This is necessary if you aren't attending a class or working on a network! I did not have a network to study for my MCSE exams. So, I got the virtual lab when it first came out. Before I had this product, I honestly did not understand many aspects of the operating system. The books I already had were great, but I needed hands-on experience, and couldn't afford it. This virtual lab gave me the Windows 2000 environment I needed! I ran it on a single PC, didn't have to worry about crashing anything, and had labs for the whole core set. Cram tests are not enough to pass the exams; hands-on is needed. The most important aspect of Windows 2000 are simulated across a whole bunch of labs. In short, this virtual lab is Great and worth every penny! I've already recommended it to friends.
2874735
I more than love this! It helped me in clinical as well as homework and studying. I only wish there was another to add to with some more lab values on it. I will use this as a quick reference when I am working as a nurse. I recommend this to nursing students everywhere.
4961602
I found this book to be of great value as an intern.  4th admission at 3 am and feeling a little fuzzy?  Evaluate your pt and flip this open to the diagnosis for a running list of admit orders.  You'll have a thorough workup for your pt as well as good starter meds and fluids ready to go.