Reference Materials

SDN Answers
Free Downloads
Guides
The Not So Short Introduction to Getting into Medical School By Ryan Aycock, first published 2005, with the fourth edition updated in 2009. A fantastic resource for all premedical students (even students in other pre-health fields) at every stage of the process. Completely free, distributed under the Creative Commons Deed. (PDF File)
Study Aids

Flash Cards

FlashPoint A high-powered flashcard program, allowing sequential, random, or targeted quizzes. Q-> A or A->Q order. Full formatting allowed, including bullet points, underlining, italics, etc. Tracks time for quiz and time for last quiz, and records date reviewed. REQUIRES MICROSOFT EXCEL. Thanks to Patrick Gaston.
Image Quiz Image flashcard program. Allows several lines of text for each image. Quizzes are simple to make. Users can zoom and move images on the fly. Random and sequential quizzes possible. Thanks to Patrick Gaston.
FlashTable (Pharm) Designed for learning tables of information. For example, you might want to study several points about a list of drugs (mechanism, uses, side effects, etc.). FlashTable allows you to review any or all of these points. Also allows reverse quiz, giving the points until you provide the drug name. This version is fully functional and contains 50 drugs. Thanks to Patrick Gaston.

Relational Learning

Leaf Reads in text outlines, transforming them into graphical “mind maps” of the information. A great way to study or to prepare for giving presentations. Incredibly simple to use. In addition to the center-out mind map format, also makes vertical and horizontal flowcharts/decision trees. Thanks to Patrick Gaston.

Timers

PG Cooker A test and study timer for your desktop. Includes count-up and count-down timers, clock, and alarm. As accurate as your computer’s internal timer. As the author states “I use it to keep my arse in the chair studying for an hour at a time.” Thanks to Patrick Gaston.
Wards Forms

If you wish to submit a form to share with other SDN members, please contact us! We can accept many different formats including: Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Adobe Illustrator and Adobe PDF file format. If needed, your form will be converted to Adobe PDF format (if needed) and posted to the site.

Please be sure to include a copyright line to your form (such as “Copyright 2009 Jane Doe, M.D.”). To your form, we may add the wording “Available free at www.studentdoctor.net” so that others will be able to download a master copy of it.

Patient Cards
Size 1/4 Page Added 5.16.04
Standard cards for tracking patients in a hospital setting.
Patient Registry
Size 5″x8″ Card Added 9.6.04
Card for tracking patients in a clinical setting in order to maximize HEDIS guideline compliance.
New Patient Admission
Size Full Page Added 3.15.05
Patient hospital admission sheet, contains areas for labs and studies. Special thanks to M. Alo!
Progress Note
Size Full Page Added 3.15.05
Hospital progress note. Special thanks to M. Alo!
Patient Tracker Sheet
Size 1/2 Page Added 3.15.05
Well designed full page form which can be folded down to a 1/2 page for easy pocket storage. Multiple areas for lab data and studies. Special thanks to M. Alo!
Screen Backgrounds
$150,000 in loans and all I got…
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(1024 x 768 JPG)
Recommend your own backgrounds or screensavers If they’re cool, we’ll post them here for all to enjoy! :)
SDN Promotional Posters

Share our nonprofit resources with your fellow college students – put our posters up on public bulletin boards in classrooms, dorms and coffee shops!

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SDN GATTACA Posters
Feeling like it’s in your DNA? Well, these posters were actually designed a while ago for another SDN promotion, where they were quite popular. So we’ve made them available here.
Campaign Poster
SDN 2008 “Campaign” Posters
Although they’re so last year… go ironically retro and show your true allegiances in typical campaign bumper-sticker style.
Choose your community: DDS | DMD | Medical | Optometry | Pharmacy | Podiatry | Psychology
SDN “Campaign” Posters / Bumper-Sticker Format (8.5 x 11 Inches B&W – Adobe PDF)
SDN Eye Chart Poster
SDN Eye Chart Poster Yeah this one is pretty cool. A little old (2004) but it still works well.
SDN “Eye Chart” Poster (8.5 x 11 Inches Color – Adobe PDF)
Mentos Guy
SDN Mentos Guy Poster Our first ever promotional poster (2001), totally out of date now, but it’s retro.
SDN ‘Mentos Guy’ Poster. (8.5 x 11 Inches B&W – Adobe PDF)