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This is a very good book for 3rd/4th year of medical school and beyond. It is easy to read and has lots quick hit review points to highlight important topics. Great book for the length and price. It was the best book that I bought for my 3rd year.
Very concise and easy to read book. Covers most topics. Using it for class now, but definitely plan on using it to study for Boards too.
This book is an essential for every third year medical student. It covers a broad range of topics and discusses them in a way that's relevant and to-the-point. In your 3rd and 4th years, it's important to start developing your assessment and plan; this book will tell you what standard protocols are and what labs/tests/imaging to use. Great book.
Just finish reading the book the 1st time. So nothing about breast cancer. ) no prophyria in dermo.2. 5.good dermatology pictures, also some x-ray, CT, pharm notes, physical exam notes etc. no Nikolsky's sign in pemphigus. inside the book.Ok, the book still has little blemish.1. It is a great book for the following: 1.the bullet format for easy reading and memorization.2.high-yield margin notes and clinical based box, flow-charts in every chapter.3.covers almost all topics in internal medicine and it has pathophysiology, MCC,clinical features and step by step management of the patient.4.potential clinical oriented vignettes inside the content when reading. ( maybe should be in GYN.
some info. are missing such as there is no separate oncology chapter inside the book. some disease features are written too simple. Overall, this is a very high yield and well written review book for internal medicine shelf and usmle step 2.
Better written, concise but with form, SI-units. All-in-all it was a waste of money and time.
Was i wrong. I was in time crunch studying for my exam and i chose to buy the book because of good reviews.
And while on the subject of pneumonia;there is a large table in the book describing the PSI but not a word on a much simpler diagnostic tool of CURB-65. I found it hard to read, it's just too bulleted for my taste, some diseases are just mentioned and other are described in detail, the book is intended for US students with no mention of its unsuitability for international students- only non-SI units are used which is a major faux pas for a medical book and there are some typos which should not have occured.I also didn't like the organization of the book; for instance when i studied pulmonary system i didn't find chapters on pneumonia or TB in it, but then i found that pneumonia is covered at the end of the book in chapter on infectious diseases.
Okay, maybe it makes sense, but i want everything pertinent to pulmonary system to be in one place and so on for other organ systems. I switched to better organized book from the Crash course series UK edition General Medicine.
The only good thing of the step up are the quick hits and that's it.
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