Posting this here because I couldn't find an EM-specific review before I purchased it. To their credit, they kindly refunded my money as I realized how bad it was within their very brief refund period.
I think basically they just had an IM doc write the EM questions.
Here's what I sent them to support my request for a refund. Sorry about references to specific questions; I no longer remember the specifics as this was about two months ago.
A great number of the questions are either outdated (as only one example, CT Angiogram has almost entirely supplanted conventional angiogram, even on the boards, for the management of Zone 1 neck injuries), simple one-line question stems not at all in a boards format, Medicine rather than Emergency Medicine-oriented, or contain one person's or one specialist (non-EM) textbook's opinion on management without any discussion of perfectly acceptable alternative approaches. Many of the questions are not boards-relevant or reflect the kind of question the boards might have put out 20 years ago but fortunately no longer does. There are random characters frequently inserted into questions. There are questions with dangerous answers (ignoring a neonate's potential sepsis simply because HSV is more likely; starting patients not in DKA on insulin drips with glucose in the 300s; casual use of "potentially" indicated for the most life-threatening condition in the patient). Some questions are flat out wrong. Many questions are based on citations from 2012-2014 (and enthusiastically recommend largely outmoded interventions).
Save your money until they have an EM doc write it.
I think basically they just had an IM doc write the EM questions.
Here's what I sent them to support my request for a refund. Sorry about references to specific questions; I no longer remember the specifics as this was about two months ago.
A great number of the questions are either outdated (as only one example, CT Angiogram has almost entirely supplanted conventional angiogram, even on the boards, for the management of Zone 1 neck injuries), simple one-line question stems not at all in a boards format, Medicine rather than Emergency Medicine-oriented, or contain one person's or one specialist (non-EM) textbook's opinion on management without any discussion of perfectly acceptable alternative approaches. Many of the questions are not boards-relevant or reflect the kind of question the boards might have put out 20 years ago but fortunately no longer does. There are random characters frequently inserted into questions. There are questions with dangerous answers (ignoring a neonate's potential sepsis simply because HSV is more likely; starting patients not in DKA on insulin drips with glucose in the 300s; casual use of "potentially" indicated for the most life-threatening condition in the patient). Some questions are flat out wrong. Many questions are based on citations from 2012-2014 (and enthusiastically recommend largely outmoded interventions).
Save your money until they have an EM doc write it.
