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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins' Medical Assisting Exam Review for CMA and RMA Certification (Medical Assisting Exam Review for CMA and Rma Certification)

Helen J Houser, Janet R Sesser

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Customer Reviews:
Total reviews: 6 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Using this book...I Passed!!! 5 out of 5 stars.
13 of 13 people found this review helpful.

Very detailed and precise, yet easy to understand information. Highly recommend it to anyone preparing to take the CMA or RMA exams. I passed my RMA exam with a high score. If you want to pass those exams, get this book! I commend the authors, they know what MA students need to know to pass those tests.

Editorial Review:

This medical assisting certification exam review book was primarily designed to prepare the medical assisting candidate to successfully pass a national medical assisting certification examination. The authors who have years of experience working in health care education struggled to find a product that was up to date, comprehensive yet concise and engaging. They also looked for a book that helped the student with study strategies, a mechanism to identify their strengths and weaknesses and develop a realistic study plan. Unable to find a book that met these needs, the authors wrote the LWW Medical Assisting Exam Review for CMA and RMA Certification. This text incorporates all those features in a "Keep it Simple Yet Effective" approach that includes humor and motivational strategies. It also offers valuable advice for organizing and maintaining an effective study group.

Essentials of Family Medicine (Sloane, 5th edition)

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Total reviews: 10 Average rating: 3.5 of 5

In good conscience I cannot recommend this text 2 out of 5 stars.
3 of 4 people found this review helpful.

This text is the required book for my Family Medicine program. While I have never been a fan of dense books, I can honestly state that this is the most cumbersome book I have read for medical school. It is dense, flows poorly, and the advise within chapters is very often contradictory.

The absolute worse feature of the book is it is very light in clinical material. It sites empirical and evidence based medicine ad nauseum, but when it mentioned a maneuver it almost never explains how it is performed, when a differential supports the use of the maneuver, and what would be a positive sign. I found this very frustrating because I needed another book to read this book!

This book lacks the most basic insights that should be gained after a Family Medicine rotation. After reading the URI chapter it offers very little practical advise for separating bacterial vs. viral infections.

The book is a great collection of guidelines and recommendations that you can share with your patients, but does not teach what you need to know to learn or practice Family Medicine. This book should be titled "Lagniappe of Family Medicine"

Editorial Review:

Written at the clerkship level, this book is a comprehensive introduction to family medicine. It is organized into three sections--principles of family medicine, preventive care, and common problems--and includes chapters on evidence-based medicine and complementary therapies. The text has a user-friendly writing style, focuses on common clinical problems, and uses case studies to show practical applications of key concepts. This edition features an updated art program, more illustrations, summaries, consistent headings, greater emphasis on evidence-based care, and more diverse family physician profiles representing varied practice settings. A companion Website offers the fully searchable text, 75 study questions, and an ExamKit of more than 300 questions with which faculty can generate tests.

Kaplan OAT, 2009-2010 Edition (Kaplan OAT)

Kaplan

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Total reviews: 2 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Good for practice questions 4 out of 5 stars.
0 of 0 people found this review helpful.

This book contains practice question sets and 2 full-length practice exams. It does not include any comprehensive subject review material. The review sections would make this book much better but obviously a lot more expensive. Kaplan does not make a review book for the OAT that includes subject review because they would prefer that you take their OAT prep course that costs over $1000. If you have other sources to use for review, this book gives you good practice questions to use to gauge your knowledge and preparation for the OAT. Overall, decent book for the money.

kaplan oat 09-10 review 5 out of 5 stars.
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This book was useful with many practice questions and 2 full length tests. BUT it was the exact same questions as the 08-09 edition!! Had only a few typos. The only difference were some answer explanations, but I didn't notice.

Editorial Review:

This guide features:

*Two full-length practice exams

*Specific strategies for the computer-based exam

*Hundreds of practice questions with detailed answer explanations

*Two practice sets for every OAT question type: Natural Sciences, Reading Comprehension, Physics, Quantitative Reasoning

Anatomy Coloring Book

Stephanie McCann, Eric Wise

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Customer Reviews:
Total reviews: 5 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Fantastic Review Tool! 5 out of 5 stars.
6 of 7 people found this review helpful.

I'm taking antaomy in college and needed a way to review and study the things we cover in the lab without spending every waking moment at school. This book allows me to color each area with a different color so I can study the entire organ or specific area when reviewing for a test. I got an "A" on the first test I took after getting this book!!!

one per page 4 out of 5 stars.
3 of 4 people found this review helpful.

The pictures are printed on the front of each page, and nothing is printed on the backs. This is an important characteristic for a coloring book. The only thing I'd like to see is a movable page-sized piece of imprint-resistant paper or plastic inside the book. It would help eliminate the imprints that occur on the page following the one you've just colored. Other than that, it is a great book.

Editorial Review:

-Hundreds of clear, concise illustrations, with a labeling key for each

-15 chapters representing major body systems (Skeletal, Nervous, Cardiovascular,) as well as Cells and Tissues, Muscles, Development, and more

-A descriptive overview of each illustration including major features, key points, and coloring guidelines

-96 tear-out muscle flashcards

-Nomina Anatomica labels, an international standard of anatomical nomenclature

Appleton & Lange Review for the Ultrasonography Examination (Appleton & Lange Review Book Series)

Carol A. Krebs, Charles S. Odwin, Arthur C. Fleischer

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Total reviews: 5 Average rating: 3.5 of 5

Don't waste your money. 2 out of 5 stars.
45 of 45 people found this review helpful.

This review book was assigned to my senior ultrasound program in our last quarter of classes. A colleague of mine who is a radiologic technologist had used the A&L RT review book and found it helpful, so my expectations when it was assigned were to be able to learn and to have a good array of review questions.

However, this book seems to be a compendium of outdated information rife with typos that would be hilarious if they were not so frequent. I am finding that working through it is about a 75% waste of time. Who edited this?.... Anyone?...... Anyone?

Another problem is that images are labeled wrong, or not labeled (e.g.: "Name the structure with the arrow on example 5-113," and then there is no arrow. Or worse, the arrow clearly, unmistakably points to the aorta and the answer is IVC.).

The OB/GYN chapters are better than the physics and abdomen chapters; the latter have significant errors in them. My biggest problem is that as a whole these questions require very little critical thinking and are not "pitched" at a level commensurate with what I believe the ARDMS registries require (I will update this review after taking my registries in Mar.-April).

And now, for amusement value, some of the misprints:

"posterior urethral values"
for intussusception, "intersuppection"
"pleura effusion" --- and the list goes on.

For review I would recommend the following books:

Physics:

Physical Principles of General and Vascular Ultrasonography, Jim Baun, BA, RVT, RDMS http://www.jimbaun.com/jimbaunjan05_007.htm

Understanding Ultrasound Physics, Sidney Edelman, 2nd Edition

Abdomen:

Exam Preparation for Diagnostic Ultrasound, Sanderson/Dolk/Miner

Abdomen & OB/GYN:

Clinical Guide to Ultrasound, Charlotte Hennigsen.

Editorial Review:

The most current, comprehensive question-and-answer review of diagnostic medical sonography for national certification examination preparation. This popular review covers all facets of ultrasound, including basic physics, vascular sonography, ob/gyn, transvaginal, transrectal, adult and pediatric echocardiography, and neurosonography. Includes hundreds of images and 12 pages in full color.

Pocket Atlas of Body CT Anatomy (Radiology Pocket Atlas Series)

W. Richard Webb, Michael B Gotway

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Customer Reviews:
Total reviews: 5 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Best Anatomy Book Out There! 5 out of 5 stars.
1 of 3 people found this review helpful.

Excellent up-to-date images. Webb and Gotway have hit a home run with this book.

Best Anatomy Book Out There! 5 out of 5 stars.
1 of 4 people found this review helpful.

Excellent images. Webb and Gotway have hit a home tun with this one.

SMALL AND SIMPLE 3 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

SMALL SIZE, EASY TO CARRY BUT WITH NO PARTICULAR THINGS TO POINT OUT. GOOD FOR BEGINNERS.

Editorial Review:

Featuring 229 sharp, new images obtained with state-of-the-art technology, the Second Edition of this popular pocket atlas is a quick, handy guide to interpreting computed tomography body images. It shows readers how to recognize normal anatomic structures on CT scans...and distinguish these structures from artifacts. Chapters cover the neck and larynx, thorax, portal venous phase abdomen, pelvis, arterial phase abdomen, and reconstructions. Each page presents a high-resolution image, with anatomic landmarks clearly labeled. Directly above the image are a key to the labels and a thumbnail illustration that orients the reader to the location and plane of view. This format--sharp images, orienting thumbnails, and clear keys--enables readers to identify features with unprecedented speed and accuracy.

dentEssentials: High-Yield NBDE Part I Review (Kaplan Dentessentials)

Michael Manley, Leslie D. Manley

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Includes:

-Core science concepts structured by organ system

-focuses on the most relevant and important basic and dental science information

-Chart, pictures, diagrams, and lists to supplement science concepts

-divided into three sections

1. biochemistry, molecular biology, genetics, microbiology, immunology, embryology, histology

2. organs systems

3. dental anatomy, occlusion, histology

Bakerman's ABC's of Interpretive Laboratory Data

Seymour Bakerman, Paul Bakerman, Paul Strausbauch

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Customer Reviews:
Total reviews: 9 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

There's a new edition for this excellent book! 5 out of 5 stars.
15 of 15 people found this review helpful.

This book goes beyond a "lab" book, encompassing etiologies, algorithms on further evaluation, and pathophysiology. Inside you can find, for example, the incidence of neonatal conjunctivitis in mothers with chylamydial infections, clinical features of primary biliary cirrhosis, and diagrams of the red blood cell reactions in indirect vs direct Coombs reactions. I first bought this book as a medical student when I spent over an hour doing a lit search on immunoglobulins and the intern found a better answer the next day in one second by opening this book. Definitely worth the purchase price! There is a 2002 version of this book and it includes reference articles after each lab test entry. P.S. Now exists in a PDA version, too.

Editorial Review:

Phoenix Children's Hospital, AZ. Pocket-sized outline for residents, medical students, nurses, laboratory personnel, and professionals. Alphabetically lists 500 common and uncommon tests and test panels. Includes specimen, reference range, method, and interpretation. A new section, selected reference, has been added. Previous edition: c1994. Softcover.

Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews: Microbiology (Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews Series)

Richard A Harvey, Pamela C Champe, Bruce D Fisher

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Total reviews: 10 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Second Edition, A Major Upgrade 5 out of 5 stars.
5 of 7 people found this review helpful.

This book rocks. Seriously. The second edition is a serious improvement over the first. The integration with with other Lippincott reviews (Biochem & Pharm) puts this book on the must-have short-list for Step 1.

Watch out Med Micro Made Ridiculously Simple, this could and should be the new number one USMLE micro book.

Editorial Review:

Now in full color, Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews: Microbiology, Second Edition enables rapid review and assimilation of large amounts of complex information about medical microbiology. The book has the hallmark features for which Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews volumes are so popular: an outline format, 450 full-color illustrations, end-of-chapter summaries, review questions, plus an entire section of clinical case studies with full-color illustrations. This edition's medical/clinical focus has been sharpened to provide a high-yield review. Five additional case studies have been included, bringing the total to nineteen. Review questions have been reformatted to comply with USMLE Step 1 style, with clinical vignettes.

Appleton & Lange Outline Review for the Physician Assistant Examination

Albert F. Simon, Anthony A. Miller, Albert Simon, Anthony Miller

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Total reviews: 5 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Great PANCE prep 4 out of 5 stars.
5 of 5 people found this review helpful.

Quite a bit of info in here. Sure, some zebras, but the answers are usually pretty short and sweet. I made a ton of notecards from the questions that I didn't know.

I used the purple book, this one, and the Kaplan PANCE prep book over the course of a month. I read every page, read every question, took every quiz of each book and did fine on the PANCE last week.

Concise and succulent 4 out of 5 stars.
3 of 3 people found this review helpful.

This book is concise. It is organized in an easy to study format and pulls the most important facts to the forefront.

Great Review Book 5 out of 5 stars.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful.

I loved this book to study for end-of clinical rotation exams as well as boards. It is a general overview when you want a quick refresher, and has plenty of room in the margins to write notes. I got the outline review in combination with the Q&A book and feel they were very beneficial. I still pull out the outline review book every so often now that I am a practicing PA-C.

Editorial Review:

Written by PAs for PAs, this best-selling review gives graduating PA students rapid access to the facts they need to study for the NCCPA PANCE certifying examination and PANRE recertifying examination. Features a review of essential exam topics, a concise overview of diseases, and an easy-to-follow outline format that follows the NCCPA exam format. Perfect for certification or recertification.