Best books for peds rotation?

[Bluesaurus]

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I don't know what UWorld is?

I went to there website and they had stuff for Step I and step 2

btw...I have no idea what the difference is between step 2 and step 2 cs.

How do I find something on their site for peds rotation in med school?

 

[kdburton]

I don't know what UWorld is?

I went to there website and they had stuff for Step I and step 2

btw...I have no idea what the difference is between step 2 and step 2 cs.

How do I find something on their site for peds rotation in med school?

The following advice is assuming you're talking about books/questions for the pediatrics shelf exam and not necessarily the clerkship as a whole (i.e. things to know while on rounds, etc)

UWorld (USMLE World) is a question bank that you can subscribe to for each of Step 1 and Step 2 CK. There is no separate bank of questions for the Peds rotation, so if you want to use their Peds questions you have to subscribe to the whole Step 2 CK Qbank and you can then choose to do exclusively Peds questions (of which there are just under 300 if I remember correctly). I found them to be quite helpful for my Peds rotation though.

As far as books go... Personally I used only Blueprints Pediatrics for a text and was able to score well enough for honors at my school (83 raw/ 87th percentile). I used UWorld as stated above along with the PreTest Pediatrics question book - another ~500 questions which were very helpful in my opinion. Other people I know found Case Files pediatrics to be helpful, but I never read that.

 

[IM Substance P]

Use Blueprints and Pretest for your shelf, and save UWorld for your actual Step 2CK prep (unless you want to start your CK prep during your peds rotation).