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| By: David S Howes, Rohit Gupta ISBN: 0071445072 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Release Date: 06 October, 2008 Bioscience book rank: 1085200 | ||
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| By: Radhika Breaden ISBN: 0375750924 Publisher: Princeton Review Release Date: 09 June, 1998 Bioscience book rank: 782184 | This book is only sufficient for the less weighted items for the USMLE boards. There is just not enough depth for a lot of the things covered by the boards. Also, there are quite a few errors in here, and no errata published by Princeton Review. That means that everything written in it must be checked elsewhere and confirmed before it is useful. On the plus side, for a broad and nonspecific overview of topics like gross anatomy, genetics and immunology, the book did a good job. However, they billed themselves as a comprehensive study guide, and they just fell short of that claim. This book is absolutely full of mistakes, I would not rely on it at all! This is a great book to review material, as it explains concepts so well. It also covers strictly all the clinical points of the basic sciences, and not facts that are really not needed. You must learn to use it with your coursework, however, as it is a bit deficient. I am using it side by side with my first aid, and a couple other review books. It's framework, however, makes studying for the boards a lot easier to mentally grasp, as the systems and the most high yield concepts are already there for you. It's length is almost perfect, as you have already covered so much material in your courses. This gives you quite a bit of time to do as many questions for the boards as possible. I would definitely recommend this book as a starter for USMLE study. For the next edition, I recommend making the book atleast 1200 to 1500 pages, to make up for the deficiencies, and so no other review books are needed. | |
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| By: David O Wiebers, Valery L Feigin, Robert D Brown ISBN: 0781786584 Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Release Date: 01 March, 2006 Bioscience book rank: 1049500 | ||
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| By: John Duffy ISBN: 0876307888 Publisher: Routledge Release Date: 01 January, 1996 Bioscience book rank: 289796 | This was a poorly designed study guide for the National Boards in Psychiatry, with many badly thought out questions. Internal inconsistencies, confusing questions, or downright incorrect material was not hard to come by. For example, strategically omitted "nots"--as in "which of the following do not occur"--transformed some questions to nonsense. Furthermore, half the questions are of the now-obsolete "K" type. I would advise those preparing for the boards to save their money and apply it toward a prep course or another book. | |
| By: Todd A. Swanson, Sandra I. Kim ISBN: 0781756545 Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Release Date: 31 July, 2004 Bioscience book rank: 205873 | ||
| By: Jonathan S Olshaker, M. Christine Jackson, William S Smock ISBN: 0781792746 Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Release Date: 01 August, 2006 Bioscience book rank: 361276 | ||
| By: Christopher P Cannon, Patrick T O'Gara ISBN: 0781794390 Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Release Date: 01 October, 2006 Bioscience book rank: 1436476 | ||
| By: Wayne H Garnsey ISBN: 0935487166 Publisher: N & N Pub. Co Release Date: 1998 Bioscience book rank: 1886652 | ||
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| By: Robert L. Hendren ISBN: 087630840X Publisher: Brunner/Mazel Release Date: 01 April, 1997 Bioscience book rank: 151014 | I just took the child board exam and this question-and-answer book actually helped a lot. The exam takes three days: half of one for the written exam, a 75 minute preschool/school age oral exam, and a 60 minute live adolescent oral exam. This book helps the most with the written exam. The questions are similar to the type on the real exam. Hendren provides questions in either multiple choice or K-type format, with some matching questions. These are followed by answers and brief explanations. The explanations are usually helpful, but there are some that are confusing or skimpy. I actually got frustrated with a few of them. The material is a little dated (little on atypicals and a lot on tricyclics). But overall you will learn a lot and be in full "question mode" during the exam. There are a couple sections at the end of the book to help prepare for the oral exams. The preschool/school age one is more pertinent, because there is a written vignette on the actual exam. Overall, this book is well worth the investment! | |
| By: National Medical School Review (Firm), Edward F. Goljan ISBN: 0683063286 Publisher: Williams & Wilkins Release Date: 01 January, 1996 Bioscience book rank: 1638995 | Use series of these books as a 3-rd source of study for Step 1 after Kaplan Q-bank and Q-book. A lot of question sare not USMLE-type format and there are a lot of explanations, but some time not consice and "watery"... This is the Book. The questions r so hard that u must be really stupid. After doing all the BSS books I thought Step1 wasn't that tuff as everyone made it seem to be. By far the toughest of all the review book series. Teaches the fine points and concepts of topics beyond and more thoroughly than I learned in school! Terrific if you have the time and are not easily demoralized. <p>For comparison's sake, I averaged 66-69% on the exams in this series and in the 70-80% on the NMS exams and I got 240/95 on the USMLE and 669(99th percentile on COMLEX).<p>Hope this helps. By the way, Kaplan questions are closest to the real thing. | |
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