Resource Recommendations
M3 Rotators
- Plastic Surgery Essentials for Students (Janis)
- Gray's Atlas of Anatomy, 2nd Edition (available through ClinicalKey/other institutional lib access)
- For Medical Students | UCSF Plastic Surgery Residency
- Good video summaries of some of the depth & breadth of plastic surgery
M4 Sub-Is
- Plastic Surgery Essentials for Students (Janis)
- Good bullet point summaries (not thorough explanations)
- Grabb and Smith's Plastic Surgery, 7th Edition
- Longer but with more thorough explanations
- Plastic Surgery Emergencies Principles and Techniques
- Good for covering anything that comes through the ED/while on-call
- Michigan Manual of Plastic Surgery (similar to Janis)
Free Online Resources
- Microsurgeon.org
- Good introductory resource for microsurgery/free flaps
- AO Surgical Reference (free)
- Hand and craniofacial trauma; good for indications and surgical approaches
- OrthoBullets - Hand (free with registration)
- OrthoBullets - Physical Examination of the Hand
Textbooks for Plastic Surgery Residents/Sub-Is
- Neligan's Plastic Surgery 4th Edition (6-volume series, available through ClinicalKey)
- Plastic Surgery Emergencies Principles and Techniques
- Good for covering anything that comes through the ED/while on-call
- Plastic Surgery Essentials for Students (Janis)
- Good bullet point summaries (not great for more thorough explanations)
- Operative Techniques in Plastic Surgery (available through ClinicalKey/other lib access)
- 3 volumes, has good step-by-step info for a wide variety of cases
- Operative Techniques – Hand and Wrist Surgery (available through ClinicalKey)
- The Hand: Examination and Diagnosis (this is helpful for learning an in-depth hand exam)
- Operative Techniques in Plastic Surgery (hard copies available in resident offices)
- Operative Techniques – Hand and Wrist Surgery (available through ClinicalKey)