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It was the best book that I bought for my 3rd year. Great book for the length and price. 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.
Using it for class now, but definitely plan on using it to study for Boards too. Very concise and easy to read book. Covers most topics.
Great book. 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. 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.
some disease features are written too simple. inside the book.Ok, the book still has little blemish.1. ( maybe should be in GYN. are missing such as there is no separate oncology chapter inside the book.
Just finish reading the book the 1st time. no Nikolsky's sign in pemphigus. ) no prophyria in dermo.2. 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.
So nothing about breast cancer. Overall, this is a very high yield and well written review book for internal medicine shelf and usmle step 2. 5.good dermatology pictures, also some x-ray, CT, pharm notes, physical exam notes etc. some info.
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. All-in-all it was a waste of money and time.
Better written, concise but with form, SI-units. I switched to better organized book from the Crash course series UK edition General Medicine.
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.
The only good thing of the step up are the quick hits and that's it. Was i wrong.
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.
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