First Aid for the USMLE Step 2 CK, Eighth Edition Author: Vikas Bhushan | Language: English | ISBN:
B007O6POKO | Format: EPUB
First Aid for the USMLE Step 2 CK, Eighth Edition Description
An indispensable high-yield review for the USMLE Step 2 CK!
The eighth edition of First Aid for the USMLE Step 2 CK is written by medical students who successfully passed the exam and reviewed by top faculty. The result is proven information and strategies that maximize your study time and deliver the results you want!
Features:
- Thousands of must-know facts that summarize frequently tested topics
- Completely updated based on feedback from students who passed
- 120+ photographs similar to those on the exam
- Full-color design includes numerous clinical images
- Rapid Review section for last-minute cramming
- Updated ratings of Step 2 CK review resources
- File Size: 46171 KB
- Print Length: 566 pages
- Simultaneous Device Usage: Up to 4 simultaneous devices, per publisher limits
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill Medical; 8 edition (March 12, 2012)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B007O6POKO
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
X-Ray:
- Lending: Not Enabled
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Almost all med students know of the importance of "First Aid for the Step 1" in their board preparation; it's almost a rite of passage to buy, read, and annotate in it until it's dog-eared and the spine breaks. So, when I began my Step 2 preparation, I naturally purchased this book as it seemed the intuitive choice. However, for those expecting the ease and terseness of the Step 1 book, you will surely be disappointed. This would make for a two-star review, however, after a review of the other main options, I'd give it three stars, because it certainly isn't much worse than the competitors.
For starters, the format is not the mnemonic and diagram-driven format of the Step 1 book, but is written in paragraph and bullet point format. It's something I actually prefer to the outline format of "Step Up to Step 2", but some may find it dense.
The second thing--and my main dig on this book--is that it doesn't say much more about diagnosis and treatment than the Step 1 book! I expected it to be more focused on management of disease, but was underwhelmed. Unlike "Step Up to Medicine" and the Kaplan High Yield course, which tell you exactly what the "best initial diagnostic test" or "most accurate test" or "best initial therapy" is, First Aid for the Step 2 really...doesn't tell you that much at all. In many cases, it merely lists a bunch of diagnostic tests that "may be useful" or "may show (insert finding here)" but does not tell you in what order to do them. With treatment, it is equally as vague for many conditions.
It also surprisingly omits many conditions I've ran into in my question banks, such as every other type of aphasia except Broca's and Wernicke's.
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