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Surgery (Pretest Series)
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 617.0076
EAN: 9780071457705
Edition: 11
ISBN: 0071457704
Label: McGraw-Hill Medical
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Medical
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 384
Publication Date: March 17, 2006
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Medical
Studio: McGraw-Hill Medical
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Editorial Review:PreTest® is the closest you can get to seeing the test before you take it. Great for course review and clinical rotations, too! Surgery: PreTest asks the right questions so you'll know the right answers.
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Get to know material on the surgery shelf exam and the USMLE Step 2 Practice with 500 clinical vignette-style questions and referenced answers *Learn why answers are right and wrong Review key facts for exam success Build confidence, skills, and knowledge
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Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Underrated!
I didn't have high hopes for this book b/c of all the reviews, but I didn't know what else to go through since nothing really is rated high for surgery. I just took my exam and my only regret is that I didn't do more of this book. Yes, the questions and explanations are very detailed but they go over all the relevant information and give you enough to make you really understand WHY so it sticks better. This is a great book.
Rating:  - Frustrating
Written with a reckless disregard for the actual content of most surgery clerkships and of the Shelf exam, this book seems to assume students have completed both a surgical residency and numerous subspecialty fellowships. Many questions deal with fine points of surgical management that are not tested on the Shelf. (Know much about chemotherapeutic treatment for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma confined to the submucosa of the stomach?) Others have multiple correct answers or irritating "trap" answers of ... Read More
Rating: - Not great
I normally like the pretest series books, but these questions are either too difficult or not related to the scope of the 3rd year surgery clerkship. Doing this book probably won't be the best use of time, as the shelf seems to have more medicine questions.
Rating: - Okay, but not great
The difficulty level of many of the Pretest questions is appropriate; however, the content is off the mark with reference to what shows up on the NBME shelf exam. I found the pretest questions to be more challenging than those in the Appleton and Lange book (see my review), but too much attention is given to details of lyte management, chemotherapy etc. in pretest. The surgery shelf actually contains a fair amount of basic internal medicine type questions. I found surgical recall to be most helpful ... Read More
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