Recommendations/study aids for psychiatry shelf exam?

[BONDFAN]

anyone out there have any study aids they feel will help ace the psychiatry shelf exam?

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[DrMetal]

Much needed bump . . . .

I'm using the Kaplan Psych noteset (circa 2009) to study for the Psych shelf. I noticed, within the Psych section, there's a lot of epidemiology/biostatistics. Not sure why this was placed in the psych section.

Is there a lot of epi/stat on the Psych shelf? (I'm aware that there can always be some epi/stat, on any shelf exam . . . but I was just wondering if it's especially emphasized in Psych).

Also, a question for any of you who used PreTest for Psych: It seems like a good resource. I noted that there's a lot of Neurology (factoids about EEG tracings, questions about specific lesions/manifestations, etc). Is there a lot of neuro on the Psych shelf?

Thanks,

 

[shouldBstudying]

I just used FA for psych. Read through it twice, honored the shelf.

I can't comment on Kaplan nor pre-test because I didn't use either
I did the UWorld questions for psych but didn't find them too helpful.

I remember zero neuro being on the psych shelf. FA for psych is money. It is the exact breadth and depth that you need.

 

[Brachyury]

I just used FA for psych. Read through it twice, honored the shelf.

I can't comment on Kaplan nor pre-test because I didn't use either
I did the UWorld questions for psych but didn't find them too helpful.

I remember zero neuro being on the psych shelf. FA for psych is money. It is the exact breadth and depth that you need.

The above post is spot-on.

My shelf didn't have any biostats, and I only had 1 child development question. Pretest and Case Files are OK, but there are a lot of grey questions (like every third year shelf), and what I learned fron reading FA psych helped me figure out the answers.

 

[DrMetal]

Cool , thanks all

 

[DrSnips]

Piece of advice, pharm is big on the psych shelf (not so much on others). Know your antipsychotics and antidepressants and anxiolytics well.