Best Psychiatry Book?

[tadalafil09]

What do you suggest for Psychiatry rotation? Case files? First Aid?

Thanks !

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[lord_jeebus]

I liked the First Aid + Case Files combo.

 

[forkslide]

Yep First aid and case files. I also used Kaplan and Sadock's Handbook for Clinical Psychiatry which had some more information that I could reference.

 

[Llenroc]

All you really need is First Aid. I read that one time and got an 85 or something on the shelf exam.

 

[nasdr]

reading FA twice and doing either pretest/lange questions should get you a high score. CF is okay, but i thought FA did a slightly better job for this rotation.

 

[ErinO]

The book I liked most for psych was: Massachusetts General Hospital Handbook of General Hospital Psychiatry. Check it out

 

[Biscuit799]

Is blueprints any good for psych? I loved it for peds!

 

[polycythemia]

felt blueprints was way to elementary...didn't like it at all...but it could just be me.... pretest is enough

 

[LadyGrey]

Case Files was really good. I also read the book my school recommended, Andreasen & Black's Introductory Textbook of Psychiatry, but I don't really recommend it. Parts of it were written very poorly, and I don't think it covered much more ground than Case Files despite being much longer.

 

[mules05]

Case Files + Lange questions + pretest= 87 raw score (scaled to honors by my school)

Edit: I also guessed on a lot of the questions about organic brain disease. If I were to re-do it I'd read through HY neuro or something like that, because this stuff isn't covered by case files.

 

[71263]

I have my psych shelf in 2 days and am having a reallly hard time finding motivation... on one hand, its probably the easiest shelf exam of M3 year. But that's what makes it so dangerous: its VERY easy not to take it seriously, blow it off, and make stupid mistakes. Hopefully I can buckle down tomorrow and make it worth it...

 

[SwissB4]

I thought First Aid for psych was on point.

 

[Biscuit799]

What about for review questions? I heard Lange was good, but what about Pre-Test?

 

[Bubchik]

What about for review questions? I heard Lange was good, but what about Pre-Test?

I did some Pretest a day before and thought it was much better than casefiles. If I had to do it all over again I would concentrate on Pretest. FA was enough as a text, and it is very short, so you can read it in a couple of days or a weekend.