Posts Tagged ‘residency+stipend’

Most residency programs offer an education stipend or allowance. If you’ve purchased anything related to your training lately, make sure you submit your receipts. I posted Reimbursement Request Templates in the RookieDoc Members Area. Just plug in your information, print, and hand it in to your program.

By the way, for those of you in the RookieDoc Mastery Orientation Program, make sure you submit your receipts for reimbursement. RookieDoctor.com services should count under your education stipend. If your program does not reimburse you, send me the program address and a contact person and I’ll see what I can do. So far, every program that receipts have been submitted to have accepted them.

If you don’t have a handheld device, you should get the following: 1 general pocket reference, 1 on-call pocket reference, and 1 drug pocket reference. Avoid having too many sources. That type-A, lay all the books out on the table when your studying move doesn’t work in internship or residency. So, don’t do it. It’s way too distracting.

Money Saver Tip – If you don’t have a handheld device (Palm, Pocket PC, Blackberry, etc), you should probably wait until your stipend kicks in from your internship or residency program. (Make sure they cover it)

Until I bought my PDA, I had…

Mass General Pocket Medicine – I scrapped the Washington Manual after about a week. I like Ferri’s better. But nowadays, I’d recommend this one… The full title is Pocket Medicine: The Massachusetts General Hospital Handbook of Internal Medicine

Tarascon Pocket Pharmacopoeia – I kept this one in my pocket even after getting a PDA.

The Sanford Guide – I pretty much only used 6 pages (the charts in the middle), but I used them almost everyday.

This is also available on the Rookie Doc Squidoo Lens. I’ll update that, since it is more like an article, whereas, this is a timestamped blog post.