Blueprints vs FA-ObGyn for Ob Gyn Shelf?

[AngryBird69]

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So I have been hearing that FA is a much better source for OBGYN than Blueprints. Can anyone comment?

P.S. This is not FA Step 2 CK book, this is an actual OB GYN book in the FA series.

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[ruiner]

I've always been told that one of the best blueprints is OB. Have heard very little about FA, nothing near as positive as blueprints but who knows. I think the biggest thing is hitting it hard. (Though I do wonder this too since I'm just starting OB!)

 

[FSU2013]

I used blueprints and a few other texts. I thought blueprints was adequate. Honestly, I thought the ob/gym shelf was a very poor exam. There were a lot of questions that fell in grey areas and that had a lot of inter-practitioner variation.

 

[AngryBird69]

Just browsing thru Blueprints and FA these past few days, I feel like FA is easier to read for me personally. I like the outline format better.

 

[username456789]

The UWISE questions were awesome. Blueprints was great too. I used just these two things basically and the OB shelf ended up being my second highest shelf grade of the year.

 

[FSU2013]

The UWISE questions were awesome. Blueprints was great too. I used just these two things basically and the OB shelf ended up being my second highest shelf grade of the year.

I thought quite the opposite. I thought the UWISE questions were pretty poorly written witha lot of ambiguity. I felt like 1-2 out of every 10 were poor questions and left me wondering.

 

[HooliganSnail]

I have blueprints and it is good stuff that you definitely need to know for the shelf (and for practicing medicine), however I feel that it has a lot of holes in the information, and is a little basic. A fellow student on rotation with me recommended the Case Series for Ob/Gyn and that is awesome, very clinically relevant.

 

[viper930]

Blueprints cover to cover 1x, Case Files cover to cover 1x then just the "pearls" 1x, UWorld Questions 1x. 98th pctile.

 

[MilkmanAl]

I agree that the UWISE questions were sub-par. UW alone is perfectly adequate, but the OB Blueprints probably is the best of that series, if you're a text kind of guy/gal.