This Third Edition of Boards and A Review for USMLE Steps 2&3 offers the information necessary to conquer the USMLE. This essential review book, written in a succinct, high-yield outline format, features board-formatted questions and answers with detailed explanations, and covers each discipline of medicine appearing on the USMLE Steps 2 and 3, including dermatology, radiology, and ophthalmology. Numerous tables, illustrations, and "buzzwords" aid in retention of facts. Boards and A Review for USMLE Steps 2&3, Third Edition is perfect for medical students. Physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and related health professionals will also find Boards and Wards valuable.
I haven't taken Step 2 yet but supposedly this is The Book you want to have read, so whatever. I like it but I often wonder if I'm getting enough detail out of it. In fact, I know I'm not, as far as the "wards" part is concerned. So many times I've turned to it for a quick answer to a pimp question and found...nothing. I don't carry it around in my labcoat anymore for that reason, but the collective voice of so many residents (recommending it for boards) just cannot be ignored, and so I continue to read...
This concise review for the essential knowledge any medical college graduate have to know is wonderful. It is not an extensive review book it is just give you the tips and headlines for commonly tested subjects in the licensure for medical practice in US and other countries. It is good for last minutes review but it is so deficient and week in the management part of most of the diseases.