How to prep for cases as a med student on a plastic surgery rotation
What to read to prep for cases on your plastic surgery rotation! Honestly I had no idea where to start when I was a student…there are a million resources out there, and plastic surgeons operate all over the body so the anatomy can get pretty overwhelming. This is where I would start:
🖐️ For hand cases: quick and dirty start with orthobullets. Next level: AO surgery reference It shows you a skeleton and then you literally just click through the bones/questions and then it gives you all the specific details about the case
💀 For craniofacial cases: AO surgery reference again. Find the skull and click through to find your specific trauma/case. They have peds Craniofacial too!
🤓 For flaps and micro: Microsurgeon dot org. This gives you the highlights of anatomy/indications/operartive steps for basically any flap case. You shouldn’t go into a flap case without having reviewed this info
🪡 For everything else: pick one standard textbook: either Janis Essentials of Plastic Surgery OR Grabb and Smith Plastic Surgery. There should be a chapter in there on basically every kind of plastic surgery case, and you know the info is reliable.
🌟 Next level tip for you over-achievers 🌟 take a look at an operative atlas if you really want to get into the details of a case. I didn’t even really know these were a thing when I was a student, so this will put you ahead of me! Basically it’s a more detailed walk through of the practical aspects of different operations with lots of pictures and technical pearls. My current fave is Kevin Chung’s operative techniques but there are lots of great ones out there.
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