Medical students and interns have no time to waste preparing for clinical rotations and the USMLE Steps 2 and 3. That's where Boards and Wards for USMLE Steps 2 & 3 comes in! Written in a high-yield outline format, it provides broad coverage of all the major fields of medicine tested on the USMLE and end-of-rotation exams. Features you&;ve come to trust - Portable format ideal for clinical rotations - Coverage of frequently tested topics in a succinct, organized manner - 75 USMLE-style questions for quick, comprehensive review - Color graphs, tables, charts, and algorithms highlight key content - Zebras and Syndromes Appendix for easy look-up of rare diseases - 130 USMLE -style questions and rationales for further review and self-testing - eBook provides fully searchable text
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.