Top Recommended IMAT Preparation Books | 2017

Thinking of medical School in Italy for the next academic year, you are in the right place.
I guess you know everything about the IMAT test already, and if not, again, you are in the right place.
This post deals with the most recommended preparation books for the IMAT test.
Remember, what you need is a good base for theoretical knowledge and then, practice, practice and more practice.

"Now It's Your Turn To Stitch"

This story is about the first time I stitched a real patient.

It was my 7th day in the general surgery department at my summer practice. I scrubbed for a routine thyroidectomy procedure, which I explained in my last post that it is a procedure made to remove the thyroid gland from its anatomical position in the neck. 

The patient was a young women, well, in medicine 46 is still young. 

She grew up in a small town in Eastern Europe, and as a child she was exposed to the radioactive remnants of the Chernobyl disaster in 1986. This exposure during childhood result in a disease of the gland that evolved to cancer. She underwent an ultrasound examination of her thyroid by an endocrinologist (like every women should have after a certain age, in certain countries), when she was informed of her situation and sent to us for a thyroid gland removal.

My Very First Time At An Open Heart Surgery

That day, that special day, happened at the end of 3rd year during summer practice.

I was part of a general surgery team for a month. That day we had three short operations. 

All of them were in the field of surgical endocrinology, which means the surgery of the hormone secreting glands in our body. 

Two of the operations were thyroidectomy, which means removal of the thyroid gland located in your neck. You can try to palpate it, but you probably can’t, well, if you could feel it maybe it’s a good time to go to the doctor.