Dr. Pestana's Surgery Notes: Top 180 Vignettes for the Surgical Wards Author: Carlos Pestana | Language: English | ISBN:
1609789164 | Format: PDF
Dr. Pestana's Surgery Notes: Top 180 Vignettes for the Surgical Wards Description
Surgical clerkship allows senior medical students to develop clinical skills and gain a better understanding of surgical disease while caring for patients. But time in the wards is limited, and clerkship covers only a tiny sample of the surgical universe. Dr. Pestana's Surgery Notes, by distinguished surgery instructor Dr. Carlos Pestana, is a proven guide to ensure your surgical knowledge. With a concise, comprehensive review and 180 high-yield surgical vignettes for self-testing, it contains the surgery knowledge you need to excel on the Surgery shelf exam and USMLE Step 2 CK.
Features:
— Concise high-yield review of core surgery material
— 180 vignettes for self-testing
— Used by med students for over a decade
— Fully up-to-date
— Pocket-sized to carry with you in the wards
- Paperback: 240 pages
- Publisher: Kaplan Publishing; 1 edition (March 5, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1609789164
- ISBN-13: 978-1609789169
- Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.2 x 0.6 inches
- Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
I decided to be the guinea pig and rely solely on this book and UW questions (on surgery only). In other words, because I was so busy and exhausted from my surgery rotation, I did not use FA, NMS, CF or any other book. It was almost 8 months since I had IM and did not do great on that shelf. I read this book 4x and made sure I could squeeze out as much info as I could from it. I ended up getting 80% on the shelf. If you have more time, get this book and learn it well but supplement high yield parts that you are weak in with more sources. If you feel like you have no time or energy left to study after your 16 hour surgery days, using this book alone (and doing UW questions) will 100% guarantee that you pass and possibly honor the shelf.
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It's a quick read for downtime during your surgery rotation, but my attending asked questions far beyond the basic "high yield" facts in this book. It's a good quick review or even a pre-read, but not complete on its own.
By SarahM
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