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by: Vikas Bhushan, Vishal, M.D. Pall, Tao Le, Hoang Nguyen, Fadi Abu, M.D. Shahin
publisher: Blackwell Publishers, published: 2001-12-15
ISBN: 0632045698
sales rank: 960664
Product Description

Blackwell?s Underground Clinical Vignettes: Ob/Gyn, 2e is your primary source for clinically relevant, case-based material essential for Step 2 review. Each Clinical Vignette presents approximately 50 expanded cases with over 1000 classic buzzwords in Hx, PE, lab, imaging, pathogenesis, epidemiology, management and complications. The revised edition contains: · High-Yield updates to nearly every case · Links to Clinical Science and Basic Science Color Atlas · New cases on commonly tested USMLE topics · Over 350 new or updated MiniCases Blackwell?s Underground Clinical Vignettes Step 2 Series: Emergency Med 0-632-04561-2 Internal Med V.I 0-632-04563-9 Internal Med V.II 0-632-04565-5 Neurology 0-632-04567-1 OB/GYN 0-632-04569-8 Pediatrics 0-632-04571-X Psychiatry 0-632-04573-6 Surgery 0-632-04575-2 UCV2 Bundle with Clinical Science Atlas 0- 632- 04637-6 Study with the student-to-student publisher you can trust!


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by: Michael Parmely
publisher: McGraw-Hill Medical, published: 2006-03-22
ISBN: 0071452982
sales rank: 555562
Product Description

You'll never find an easier, more efficient, and more focused way to ace immunology and immunology-related questions on the USMLE and course examinations than the USMLE Road Map. Designed to provide maximum learning in minimum time, this completely up-to-date USMLE Road Map offers a concise, creative, and well-illustrated approach to mastering immunology. The right way - the right questions - the right results USMLE SHORTCUTS for effective USMLE preparation OUTLINE FORMAT guides you through the most important areas in immunology HIGH-YIELD FACTS promote comprehension and recall TWO-COLOR FORMAT AND ILLUSTRATIONS make essential concepts easy to understand and remember LEARNING TIPS AND TRICKS garnered from years of interaction with students just like you CLEAR EXPLANATIONS from instructors with the experience to know the questions you would ask


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Pharmacology is tested more often on step 1 than immunology, however, the same book "road map pharmacology" actually has less pages than this book. This book definitely has too much information. Maybe it is good for the actual class, it is certainly not a good book for step 1 review. I was going to rate it a 3. "apoptosis" rated it a 5, therefore, I had to rate this book a 2. I also have read the high yield immunology. At least that book is managable, you will go crazy if you want to study this book. It has listed some diseases which are not even mentioned on the brs pathology book, for example, do you know about the Job's symdrome or "systemic inflammatory response syndrome," selective IGG2 deficiency, selective IGA deficiency, etc. It has way too much detailed information. I bet, not even the author himself can remember everything he wrote in that book. Immunology is not a highly tested subject on USMLE. Even if you spend time reading this book from the first page till the last, there is no way that you will be able to remember everything in this book. For people who are preparing for step 1, there is no way that you can allocate a large part of study time just to study this book. There are many more important books that you want to read.

Perfect for the KUMC Immunology course, a must have for any medical student

I guess I have to write a new review on this book, as my answer to Preppy Jock. First of all, I'd say, that too much info is always better than not enough, especially, if someone has managed to put all this info in a concise and readable way. Comparing different books from the same series only by their page numbers isn't the very helpful method to judge about their quality - these books may be at the different level of reviewing - what is "Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews: Pharmacology" or "Katzung and Trevor's Review of Pharmacology" (NOT "USMLE Road Map: Pharmacology"!) for pharmacology, the same is "USMLE Road Map: Immunology" for immunology - read my amazon review about "USMLE Road Map: Pharmacology", 2nd ed. and you'll understand what do I mean. 224 pages long review of immunology couldn't "make you crazy, because it's too detailed" - your only complaint is that you can find all the aspects of immunology in this tiny book, but this just means that the author has done an excellent job - you'll be able to answer every question about immunology on your step 1 exam, even the most difficult one! Also, who said that "BRS Pathology" is the standard for the USMLE step 1 and only those diseases, which are mentioned in that book will be tested on the actual exam? You may feel more comfortable reading "High-Yield Immunology" - that book is oversimplified and so, you'll be reading mostly the stuff you already know - you wouldn't need much effort, but I guess, this wouldn't make your performance on the USMLE step 1 better.



by: Vishal, M.D. Pall, Tao Le, Hoang Nguyen, Vikas Bhushan
publisher: Blackwell Publishers, published: 2001-12-15
ISBN: 0632045434
sales rank: 1113223
Product Description

Blackwell?s Underground Clinical Vignettes: Behavioral Science, third edition is your primary source for clinically relevant, case-based material essential for Step 1 review. Each Clinical Vignette presents approximately 100 cases with over 1000 classic buzzwords in Hx, PE, lab, imaging, pathology and treatment. The revised editions contain: · High-yield updates to nearly every case · Links to Basic Science and Clinical Science Color Atlas · New Cases on commonly tested USMLE topics


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In my experience, this book was not helpful for Step 1 preparation. Partly because Behavioral Sciences is not heavily tested in the exam and clinical vignettes are time consuming. Also, I felt that by studying a standard review book alone, I was able to remember the distinguishing aspects of each disease. However I am sure there are many people who would find this book useful.

Excellent book. I've read it in the library and immideatelybought to have it for prepering for USMLE 1 END


by: Matt Flynn, Benjamin Yeh, Lynn Anthony, Ketan R Bulsara, Albert SY Chang
publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, published: 1999-07-01
ISBN: 0781719763
sales rank: 1086837
Product Description

Stanford Univ., CA. Exam review for medical students preparing for the USMLE Step 2. Outline format. Includes a separate high-yield guide to the Glossy Book, tips on how to streamline the study process, and test-taking strategies from students who have achieved high scores. Softcover. DNLM: Medicine Examination Questions.


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I had very little time to study for Step 2 and this book was GOLD. I did also use Crush the Boards for Step 2 which is also excellent. Advanced Life Support has all the crucial little tid bits of info that you need. It could be in a little bit more of a clinical context but with its extremely short length and highly crammable format, it probably shouldn't change a thing. Its definitely a review and if you're learning the stuff for the first time, you should try a different book. BUT, if you have about 2-4 hours to go cover to cover through this book, then get it!!!

I think that this ("Advanced Life Support for the USMLE Step 2") is anexcellent text for last minute review. It is not intense enough to studyfor subject area boards, but is still useful when you don't have enough timefor a more expansive text. I used this and "Prescription for the Boards" asmy study resources and was able to increase my Step 2 score more than 20points over my Step 1 score.The pictorial discussions of disease processes is the best memory aid I havefound in texts like this one. I highly recommend this book for anyone aboutto take the step. I can't find anything that compares to this book forboardreview. I give it 5 stars and 2 thumbs up.

This is a really quick way to review what you know or may not remember. If you don't know a subject matter, this book lacks the detail to learn it. It is quick and easy to read, with some cute cartoons to help remember difficult items.



by: Adam Brochert MD
publisher: Hanley & Belfus, published: 2003-05-05
ISBN: 1560535695
sales rank: 606840
Product Description

Medical College of Georgia, Savannah. Text presents case scenarios including high-yield facts for reviewing the USMLE Step 1 exam. Format allows for guessing the diagnosis, determining which test to order, what therapy to give, and what to look out for in the patient's condition. Softcover.


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Know these Vignettes! Nothing more to say. They will be tested over. Period :)

Great way to review right before your exam. Helped me prepare for the case-based questions that now make up the majority of the step 1 test. The two pathology volumes give the biggest bang for the buck if money is tight, but I think the whole series (5 books: pathology I & II, microbiology, behavioral science & biostatistics, and anatomy & embryology) is outstanding.

This is the best way to prepare for the exam! This guy knows his stuff and explains it VERY well. All case-based reviews - there are no multiple choice questions in these books. All the series is excellent except the anatomy volume was low-yield for exam.



by: Michael W. King
publisher: McGraw-Hill/Appleton & Lange, published: 2002-08-19
ISBN: 0071377425
sales rank: 972156
Product Description

Arms medical students with a complete guide to the seven subjects covered on the USMLE Step 1, including anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, microbiology, pathology, pharmacology, and behavioral sciences. The book features over 1,200 exam-type questions, answers with detailed rationales, and two integrated practice tests.


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This book has a lot of important information that anyone taking the USLME should know. It has pretty good questions and answers and I like how the book explains the various USMLE topics. It's much easier reading through this book then some long textbooks. However, I also used the following which is also available on amazon.com:Microbiology Study Guide: Key Review Questions and Answers by Patrick LeonardiThis questions were on target with the type of questions asked on the microbiology section of the boards. Get both books.

I have just passed Step 1 and I do believe that this book helped me to get a good score. Despite the fact that the questions in this book do not mimic the exam's questions they highlight many details, which may be missed even in good review books. If you use only one book to study one subject, you will definitely miss some important facts. To cover those facts I did the following. First, I studied the subject using the main review book and answered questions in it. Than I answered questions in this book and always found missed important details, which were not mentioned in my main textbooks but were covered here. In other words, I would advise to read this book before the exam.

This review book is not up to date, specifically the questions are in a format nowhere near USMLE's exam. Memorize the newest edition of First Aid.



by: Bradley D. Mittman
publisher: Frontrunners Publishing, published: 2005-07-01
ISBN: 0972682767
sales rank: 783463
Product Description

Already being hailed as "The Ultimate Review for Boards & Other exams, this book was designed to help you retain better and recall faster. Whether your goal is to simply pass your USMLE clinical steps 2 & 3 or your MEDICINE BOARDS, or you simply want to be the star on rounds & attending pimp sessions, we guarantee Turbo Mnemonics will markedly improve your study efficiency and win you a lot more points on rounds, rotations, and especially the BOARDS! Turbo Mnemonics represents just the memory aids portion of our board review curriculum. Read on to learn about our other incredible products and curriculum or simply visit Frontrunners' website: GOFRONTRUNNERS. This book was created in order to make your study life and your medicine career easier. With over 400 anagrams and other mnemonics, tips, tricks, and shortcuts, this book LITERALLY spells out what you ll have to know for the medicine components of your USMLE steps 2 & 3, and the MEDICINE BOARDS. Indeed, if you re prepping now for the USMLE, you ll be way ahead of the game when it comes time to take your medicine boards. As you browse this book, you ll find OVER 400 PRICELESS MEMORY AIDS on all your favorite subjects organized alphabetically by the disease or condition. In addition, you ll definitely want take advantage of the APPENDIX section, which features a SUMMARY of all 400 memory aids found in the book with their page numbers to help you QUICKLY LOCATE your favorite mnemonics or just the information you need! Of course you may simply choose to take advantage of the well-designed and thorough Index section as a final means of look-up. Each year FRONTRUNNERS offer it s Saturday & Sunday WEEKEND MARATHON REVIEWS, covering 18 hours of highly intensive Internal Medicine Board Reviews, 9 hours each day, and typically offered the first weekend each August. Ideal for most physicians who can only spare a weekend because of a busy practice or residency schedule, it's "fly in Friday evening; get back Sun evening". For upcoming dates/registration info for any of these weekends, CALL 866-MDBOARDs 8A-8P PST. Borrowing from our experience administering board reviews over the years, FRONTRUNNERS BOARD REVIEW has passionately in medicine and the medicine components of the USMLE, as well as current trends in content. We want to be able to share those ESSENTIAL COMPONENTS with you now and do it in a way that is both engaging and, most importantly, memorable! All of us remember what a lifesaver mnemonics were during our basic sciences, particularly when it came time and tensions were running high. Memory aids saved us tons of time and always improved performance. But there are astonishingly few such resources available in clinical medicine, particularly when it comes to board preparation, certainly not on this magnitude. Clinical mnemonics aren t only important because they help you remember better and recall quicker! They serve two other very important roles. First, they function as TEMPLATES to help you efficiently sort out, process, and even filter through information you ve either already acquired or will acquire post-Turbo Mnemonics. In their role as functional templates, you ll also be able SIFT THROUGH THE JUNK and reach correct diagnoses much more quickly and with greater ease, particularly when faced with cases on the boards or the wards. As you acquire new info, you ll know EXACTLY WHERE TO HANG IT in on your framework and you ll see exactly how it fits into the bigger picture! That may even be the biggest advantage of all. Most all of us would agree that intelligence & performance don t necessarily jive when it comes to standardized exams. Sure, brains matter. Of course, study time matters. Perhaps the most important element, however, is WHAT you study, that is, what MENTAL TOOLS you take into the exam with you.


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This book contains a lot of excellent tables, algorithms and summaries that I could not find in any other review book. It seems to be a great companion while doing review questions. I also found this book to be an outstanding source when I prepared for work rounds to teach the interns and students. I can highly recommend this book to all residents. I wish I had it when I started my residency. This is an extraordinary board preparation material as it basically includes the core of the requirements posted by ABIM. It is easy to read; with very affordable tables. I highly recommend it to be read through residency as it highlights important core concepts that you can go and research further for a deeper insight in other kind of textbooks or resources. Is very complementary to frontrunners as it let you round and define the important core material. This book provides a nice balance in terms of thoroughness, readability and ability to pinpoint to the high yield material. Best book review!

I really loved this book because it took risks that paid off nicely when it came to remembering all my medicine for my Step 3 & ABIM exams. It basically takes all of Internal Medicine and presents it as memory aids; very cool. The best part is I didn't need "mnemonics to help me remember the mnemonics". This was due in large part to very thoughtful design, where the anagrams themselves generally are related to the disorder/differential/findings/etc being summarized (eg "P.H.O.T.O." for Amiodarone Toxicities (photosensitivity, photophobia, etc); "P.A.I.N.L.E.S.S." for Ecthyma Gangrenosum; and "Yer Leg B.U.M.P.S. for Erythema Nodosum). There's also a lot of humor to help keep your eyes wide open (eg "B.A.N.A.N.A. P.E.E.L.S." for Progressive Supranuclear Palsy which both helps to remember the vertical gaze palsy; impaired downward gaze; and frequent falls AND, of course, helps you easily recall the mnemonic itself). All these mechanisms really make a huge difference when you've got to quickly recall critical differentials, findings, key labs, etc in an exam situation, where time is of the essence, and there's little room for error. My favourite sections of the book were the "Quick Diffs", the "Dermatology Quick Links", and the Appendix itself. The Appendix is priceless and summarizes all 400 mnemonics in the book, and you can quickly find the best memory aid for any topic you have to know or present on, and also helps big-time on rounds every day. All the clever anagrams, pearls, summaries, algorithms, unique tables, and memory aids in general, really made this book not just a quick read and fun studying, but truly "memorable". Actually, the BEST part of the book for me was that it was free. I used it alongside Frontrunners Syllabus and their Q&A in prepping for my exams, and it came free when I got my package thru their [...] website. My favourite mnemonics are "F.A.T. L.I.P.S." for Hereditary Angioneurotic Edema (HANE); "I H.O.A.R.D. G.A.S." for Celiac Sprue; and "B.E.T. T.H.E. F.A.R.M." for Farmer's Lung. But I'm sure you'll have your own. High yield, one of my favourite books, and a huge advantage on my boards.

As Residency Director, I invested in Turbo Mnemonics for the Boards and some of Frontrunners other Internal Medicine Board Review resources for our own internal medicine board review prep course in an effort to boost seriously lagging results. All the residents who used the book, which we had to keep on a tight leash, found Turbo Mnemonics to be a truly brilliant review of internal medicine through mnemonics. Retention rates were extremely high with this book when we did our own weekly quizzes. The book is extremely well organized, and the mnemonics are simply genius. All of the mnemonics are either named with a term related to the disease itself that's being summarized, OR are simply so clever, that you can't possibly forget them! In the end, using Turbo Mnemonics, Frontrunners Internal Medicine Board Review Syllabus along with the companion 1300 practice Q&A was the PERFECT recipe for success! For the first time ever in our institution, pass rates shot to 100%, making this Residency Director one happy guy. And residents came back after their exam saying the material in these 3 books was all over their internal medicine boards. Turbo Mnemonics is a brilliant board prep resource and nothing else even comes close when it comes to its 400 extremely clever clinical medical mnemonics. Naysayers (those shamelessly pitch their own products while pretending to be reviewing this book--see below-- only call attention to their desperation and L.O.W. I.Q., a mnemonic which stands for "Low on Wisdom. Insincere Qualms." Because of it's popularity among our own residency program, we ended up having to purchase individual copies for each resident, including our second years, who will be entering the ABIM zone soon. I keep mine next to my Harrison's. Frontrunners has samples of all 3 books on its website www.frontrunners.info. Outstanding internal medicine board review curriculum. Frontrunners, thanks for the pass rates. You make us all look good!



by: Vishal, M.D. Pall, Tao Le, Parag Mathur, Jose M. Fierro, Hoang Nguyen
publisher: Blackwell Publishers, published: 2001-12-15
ISBN: 0632045418
sales rank: 1008640
Product Description

Blackwell?s Underground Clinical Vignettes: Anatomy, 3rd edition is your primary source for clinically relevant, case-based material essential for Step 1 review. Each Clinical Vignette presents approximately 100 cases with over 1000 classic buzzwords in Hx, PE, lab, imaging, pathology and treatment. The revised editions contain: · High-yield updates to nearly every case · Links to Basic Science and Clinical Science Color Atlas · New Cases on commonly tested USMLE topics


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Thanks for his responsibility; eventhough many delivery problems I received the book and the book looks like a new one.

Anatomy is a very low yield subject on the exam and vignettes are a time consuming way to study. I did not find this particular book of the series at all helpful. There are more efficient ways to study anatomy.


by: Paul Gordon
publisher: McGraw-Hill Medical, published: 2006-11-13
ISBN: 007146543X
sales rank: 1198023
Product Description

THE EXPRESS ROUTE TO USMLE EXCELLENCE IN FAMILY MEDICINE You'll never find an easier, more efficient, and more focused way to ace the family medicine-related questions on the USMLE and course examinations than the USMLE Road Map. Designed to provide maximum learning in minimum time, this USMLE Road Map offers a concise, creative, and well-illustrated new approach to mastering family medicine. The right way -- the right questions -- the right results USMLE SHORTCUTS for effective USMLE preparation OUTLINE FORMAT guides you through the most important areas in family medicine HIGH-YIELD FACTS promote comprehension and recall TWO-COLOR FORMAT AND ILLUSTRATIONS make essential concepts easy to understand and remember LEARNING TIPS AND TRICKS garnered from years of interaction with students just like you CLEAR EXPLANATIONS from instructors with the experience to know the questions you would ask GUIDEPOSTS TO UNDERSTANDING Follow these road signs for a well-organized, student friendly, and clearly illustrated review of family medicine! Clinical Correlations: link a topic to its clinical application and illuminate the relationship between basic science and clinical practice Clinical Problems: Build on the basic concepts and offer valuable practice for the USMLE and course examinations Explanations of Answers Provide the "whys" to pinpoint your strengths and weaknesses


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by: Joel Goldberg
publisher: McGraw-Hill Medical, published: 2005-11-14
ISBN: 0071446168
sales rank: 837577
Product Description

There is no better way to score higher on the USMLE Step 2 CK than this test prep featuring six practice tests totaling 900 USMLE-formatted questions. The perfect companion to First Aid for the USMLE Step 2 Completely revised and updated to reflect USMLE Step 2 format


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