COMLEX - Step 1 - Savarese, DO Review book

[Coxsuckie Virus]

Hey all you future DO's,

I have this OMT Review book by Robert G. Savarese, D.O. From what I hear, it's one of the best OMT reviews you can get for the COMLEX. A good friend of mine who recently took the COMLEX said to read it. And then to do the mock exams at the end of the book. She said that it was quite representative and would really give you the proper background info that is stressed on the exam.

Does anyone agree or have any other sort of input on this resource?

My exam is on Wednesday, the day after tomorrow, and I just found this book and I might dedicate my last day or two to running through it. Theoretically, you can get through the book in a day. Would anyone recommend this approach?

Thanks guys,

CV

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[DrMom]

you'll be fine with 1 day on the book. be sure to pay careful attention to the autonomics, with some more minor emphasis on the sacrum and cranial.

 

[DrQuinn]

Agree with the boss. Savarese is the only book you will need for any OMT portion of the COMLEX. Granted, I was in med school from 1999-2003, but it was all I ever used for Steps 1 - 3. I doubt it has changed much.

Concentrate 98% of your studying on the "regular" stuff, and then about two days before just spend a whole day on the Savarese book. Make sure you emmorized the sympahetic levels.

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[Taus]

Savarese was more then enough for the OMM questions on my COMLEX this year. The questions were really basic...and if they didn't seem basic at first its b/c they tried to make the Q longer and more convoluted....and in doing so it became hard to tell wtf they were even asking sometimes. That being said....the last line in those questions generally gave you all you needed for the answer.

You also needed to know pretty much everything in that book except for specifics w/ treatments (though I did have some basics on pt positioning). A good amt of the the "special" ortho tests showed up too.

2 days or so should be plenty unless you really didn't learn anything these last couple years in OMM

 

[HunterGatherer]

be sure to pay careful attention... with some more minor emphasis on the sacrum and cranial.

you mean:
chapter 6:Sacral and Innominates
chapter 9: Cranialsacral Motion

 

[DrMom]

you mean:
chapter 6:Sacral and Innominates
chapter 9: Cranialsacral Motion

Yes. Those and whatever chapter covers autonomics. I've had lots of autonomics on every step of the COMLEX. Next biggest topic I've had on all 3 is cranial. everything else is random, but sacral shows up pretty regularly.

 

[HunterGatherer]

Yes. Those and whatever chapter covers autonomics. I've had lots of autonomics on every step of the COMLEX. Next biggest topic I've had on all 3 is cranial. everything else is random, but sacral shows up pretty regularly.

Thanks!

 

[DrMom]

you're welcome.

just for clarification, the rest of the book is worth going through, but the topics I mentioned tend to be the highest yield on every level of the COMLEX.

 

[HunterGatherer]

you're welcome.

just for clarification, the rest of the book is worth going through, but the topics I mentioned tend to be the highest yield on every level of the COMLEX.

I plan on hitting the autonomics as well and reading the whole book 2x during 2nd year but want to hit a few chapters many more times than that. Ah, the best laid schemes of mice and men...

 

[DOme2009]

for anyone that cares, i took my comlex last month and i used the simmons manual for the omm portion (it's a 2 day easy read or 1 day if you're a speed reader). apart from the autonomics, my exam really only had cranial and sacral questions with a few basic spinal mechanics (sb and rot for type I vs type II, etc) questions. the WTF questions were awesome because it was always about some pregnant chick or post-partum chick and we all know that pregnancy throws all kinds of stuff out of whack so i didn't even try to reason thru some of them.

 

[polynikesdb]

I went through most of Savarese, including end of chapter questions and excluding treatment chapters, in a morning. I then spent a few hours doing the first test. That was really all I needed, and for anyone else out there that is strong in OMM.

Make sure you can differenciate organs autonomically that are in the same innervation of the celiac/sup m./inf m. ganglia.

 

[MsEvolution]

At our school the OMM dept gave us an OMM board review. I made the font a little smaller, printed it, and it's all I studied for OMM. Seriously, the OMM part of the test will be the least of your worries--very easy.

Do yourself a big favor though, and be sure to *really* know your viscero-somatics. Those were tested heavily too. Sacrum and thoracics next. One question on Cranial for me. One question on Chapman reflexes. One question on knee tests.