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First Aid for the USMLE Step 3 (First Aid USMLE)

Tao Le, Vikas Bhushan, veronique

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Total reviews: 18 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

STEP 3 PREPERATION 4 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

A very good book to review for step 3. Its not enough by its self but a very good complement to other books like Swanson Family Medicine.

not very helpful despite good potential 2 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

Basically, it is very skeletal review with too little detail and too many missing topics. It does overall good job to address some (yes, only some of the vast amount of step 3 facts) of the high yields topics though.

The cardiology section is unacceptably brief and missing out too many facts such as the management of the major valvular disease, which is critical on step 3!

So if you go over the online Q banks, especially usmleworld qs (very picky and detailed oriented questions) you would keep searching for the better explanations, which are completely missing out on this book.

Of course, I am referring to a review book, not a major text book. But even a review book, it must be reasonably detailed with sufficient coverage of the related topics.

This book would have been much better if the authors would add more details and add more diseases such as Rocky mountain spotted fever, Hyper/hypothyroidism in pregnancy, Geriatrics, opthalmology, trauma medicine, and Pediatrics/Adolescents medicine of better coverage.

It is simply too "lazy" book that hampers the hard earned good reputations for the FA step 1 and 2 in which I did use them extensively for the step 1 and 2.

Editorial Review:

Let the authors of First Aid for the USMLE Step 1 show you how to ace the USMLE Step 3 with this proven survival guide.

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Written by residents who passed the boards and reviewed by top faculty, First Aid for the USMLE Step 3 delivers the content and practical advice you need to pass the USMLE Step 3.

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• High-yield information, mnemonics, and visual aids.
• 100 mini-cases let you practice for the CCS.
• Tips on how to register and achieve a top score .
• 50 pages of NEW content, thousands of high-yield facts, and more clinical images.

Surgical Recall (Recall Series)

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Total reviews: 45 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Surgery Clerkship Bible 5 out of 5 stars.
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This book is great! You can carry it around with you to quickly review before cases, or even in the clinic. Almost every pimp question I have gotten was in this book!!

Excellent 5 out of 5 stars.
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Great for surgery because it goes over anatomy (perfect for OR days) and different diseases/pathophysiology (great for rounding). Must-have for surgery clerkship.

Excellent quick review 5 out of 5 stars.
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This book is in short, Q&A style, and is excellent for quick review, especially when you have 10 minutes before a case starts. During surgeries, I got asked a lot of questions straight out of the book. A more thorough book is needed for in-depth info, but this book is great to carry around with you and read in those rare spare minutes.

Editorial Review:

Thoroughly updated for its Fifth Edition, this reference for third and fourth year medical students on surgical clerkships enables quick study in a rapid-fire Q&A format. A perfect fit for a lab coat pocket, this book is commonly used as a quick review prior to surgical rounds as well as for board review. Purchasers of this edition will get both the print book and access to MP3 audio files of the entire text. All Q&A material will also be posted online in the form of electronic flashcards for self-quizzing.

Saunders Comprehensive Review for the NCLEX-PN Examination, Edition 3

Linda Anne Silvestri

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Total reviews: 26 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Editorial Review:

This guide is filled with essential nursing content, tips, strategies, and other indispensable information to help you prepare for the NCLEX-PN examination. It includes all-new information on the latest test plan, plus many questions in the new alternate item formats. The text provides rationales for correct and incorrect answers, as well as strategies for approaching similar questions.

Please check out these other great NCLEX-PN® review books from Linda Silvestri:

. Saunders Q & A Review for the NCLEX-PN® Examination (9781416029120)
. Saunders Strategies for Success for the NCLEX-PN® Examination (9781416000945)
. Saunders Q & A Review Cards for the NCLEX-PN® Exam (9780721603926)

• Pyramid Terms, key terms defined at the beginning of each chapter, give students a quick review of each content area.
  
• Pyramid Points, bulleted items located throughout the content outlines, identify content that typically appears on the NCLEX-PN exam.
  
• Pyramid to Success sections at the beginning of each chapter or major unit of the book provide an overview of the chapter, guidance and direction regarding the focus of review in the content area, and its relative importance to the current NCLEX-PN test plan.
  
• The text and accompanying CD-ROM provide thousands of practice questions. Every question in the book provides a correct answer, rationales for all responses, test-taking strategy, level of cognitive ability, integrated concepts and processes, category of client needs, and reference to an Elsevier nursing textbook.
  
• Text includes a comprehensive exam consisting of 300 questions related to all content areas in the book and representative of the percentages identified in the 2005 NCLEX-PN test plan.
  
• Alternate item format questions provide practice with mastering prioritizing, decision-making, and critical thinking skills, and help prepare users for this additional component of the NCLEX-PN exam.
  
• Text presents introductory chapters on the NCLEX exam, test-taking skills, and the NCLEX-PN from a student's perspective.

• Features a new chapter addressing transitional needs of foreign-educated nurses.
  
• The unit on Growth and Development Across the Lifespan has been completely updated.
  
• Includes 3,500 questions, approximately 500 more than the 2nd edition. All of the questions in the book, plus additional questions, are included on the CD-ROM.
  
• New alternate item format questions include drag-n-drop, illustration questions, and multiple response questions, to prepare readers for the addition of these questions to the NCLEX-PN examination.
  
• The CD-ROM allows readers to practice randomly selected alternate item format questions in study and quiz modes.

Neuroanatomy: An Atlas of Structures, Sections, and Systems (Point (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins))

Duane E Haines

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Total reviews: 12 Average rating: 3.5 of 5

WARNING --EDITION #7 2 out of 5 stars.
3 of 4 people found this review helpful.

The 7th edition has inexplicably omitted most of the gross dissections of the previous editions!

Good Atlas, but hard to read 3 out of 5 stars.
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Haines Atlas has some strong points and some weak points. If the option was given, I would have given it 3.5 stars because it probably is above the average when it comes to atlases and I have not used a different atlas to compare it to.

Strong points:
-The real images are great (CTs and MRIs).
-Cross sections and coronal sections are also well done.
-USMLE style questions at the end of the book are great for medical students (such as myself) and helped me do very will on the NBME Neuroscience shelf exam.
- Online version is a great tool

Weak points:
- As a text, this atlas is VERY confusing.
- Although the diagrams are decent, the color scheme is not explained very well and they use a lot of abbreviations that aren't intuitive, constantly need to be checked, and often times differ from one diagram to the other

This atlas would be best used with a different textbook (I personally recommend Basic Clinical Neuroscience by Young, Young, and Tolbert).

Also, if you are a medical student, combine the two books above with the Pre-test for Neurosciences by Allan Siegel for review of NBME shelf exam and USMLE step 1 exam.

Editorial Review:

Now in its 25th year, this best-selling work is the only neuroanatomy atlas to integrate neuroanatomy and neurobiology with extensive clinical information. It combines full-color anatomical illustrations with over 200 MRI, CT, MRA, and MRV images to clearly demonstrate anatomical-clinical correlations. This edition contains many new MRI/CT images and is fully updated to conform to Terminologia Anatomica. Fifteen innovative new color illustrations correlate clinical images of lesions at strategic locations on pathways with corresponding deficits in Brown-Sequard syndrome, dystonia, Parkinson disease, and other conditions. The question-and-answer chapter contains over 235 review questions, many USMLE-style. Interactive Neuroanatomy, Version 3, an online component packaged with the atlas, contains new brain slice series, including coronal, axial, and sagittal slices.

Clinically Oriented Anatomy: North American Edition (Clinically Oriented Anatomy (Moore))

Keith L Moore, Arthur F Dalley

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Editorial Review:

Clinically Oriented Anatomy, Sixth Edition provides first-year medical and allied health students with the clinically oriented anatomical information that they need in study and practice. This best-selling textbook is renowned for its comprehensive coverage of anatomy, presented as it relates to the practice of medicine, dentistry, and physical therapy. The Sixth Edition features a modified interior design with new and improved artwork that further enhances the user-friendliness of the text. The clinical Blue Boxes now have categorizations such as "Health," "Clinical Procedures," "Physical Examination," and "Development" and are indexed at the front of the book so they are easier to locate. The Bottom Line summaries have been refined to clearly call out key points for quick study. A companion Website offers the fully searchable text, interactive USMLE-style questions, case studies, Surface Anatomy and Clinical Imaging Libraries, and references. Online faculty resources include an Image Bank, Test Generator, and Course Outlines.

Study Guide for Medical-Surgical Nursing: Assessment and Management of Clinical Problems

Sharon L. Lewis

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Total reviews: 40 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

It's ok 3 out of 5 stars.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful.

Some of the questions in here are outrageous compared to what I read in the textbook. Stuff that was stated in only a sentence or two in the textbook would have really in depth questions in this study guide. I only use the multiple choice questions. The rest is kind of useless for me because we don't have anything other than multiple choice on our tests in class. A lot of times I don't even bother using this.

Kind of hard to understand 3 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

I have a hard time understanding stuff when I read this textbook for class. It's not very straight forward or clear and you have no idea what's going on. It also seems like there's a lot of extra information that doesn't need to be there. The only thing I like is that it comes in 2 separate books so it's easier to carry around and flip through without breaking the spine of the book.

Editorial Review:

The Study Guide contains over 500 pages of thoroughly revised review material including a wide variety of exercises and activities, Alternate Item questions to better prepare for NCLEX exams. Answers for all the exercises are printed in the back of the study guide to facilitate self-study.