Intern Reference

Useful Notes

• Preparing for a Term
• Medications
• Patient Lists
• Finding Notes and Documents
• After Hours
• Completing Jobs on the Ward Round

Administrative Tasks

• Administrative Notes on Radiology
• Consults and Referrals
• End-of-life orders
• Finding Notes and Documents
• Home Screen
• Ordering Investigations
• Patient Lists
• Useful Numbers to Save on Your Phone
• Viewing Investigations
• Writing Discharge Summaries

Clinical Tasks

• See: Common Ward Calls
• IV Cannulation
• iSBAR Handover

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• Create a common medications and doses list:
  • Analgesia: See Paediatric Pain Management and Pain Management
  • Antibiotics
  • Anti-emetics: metoclopramide, ondansetron and prochlorperazine
  • Nutritional/electrolyte supplements
    • Consider potassium, calcium-magnesium-phosphate (CMP), B12, folate, iron and micronutrients
    • Check with Australian Injectable Drugs Handbook
  • Fluids (including blood products)
    • Also know the hospital policies surrounding blood products (e.g. patient consent, notification of blood bank etc)
  • Aprients/Laxatives
  • Topical products: emolients, eye drops, creams
  • Puffers
  • PPIs both IV and PO

References

• Good books:
  • On call: Principles and Protocols (Australian edition)
  • Junior Doctor Survival Guide
  • The Junior Medical Officer’s Guide to the Hospital Universe: A Survival Manual
• Other reference:
  • https://litfl.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Referral-cheat-sheet.pdf

Footnotes