internal medicine shelf

[futuremed]

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Hey guys,
Can you please reccomend the best book for internal medicine shelf. Do you feel like a review book like IM blueprints is enough(plus questions of course), or do you think one would need something more comprehensive.
What do you know about Torronto notes?
Thanks in advance.

 

[starry sky]

IM Blueprints is definitely not enough. I personally thought the combination of Step-Up to Medicine + MKSAP worked great. I am not familiar with Toronto Notes.

 

[Medstudentquest]

IM Blueprints is definitely not enough. I personally thought the combination of Step-Up to Medicine + MKSAP worked great. I am not familiar with Toronto Notes.

I did Step Up, MKSAP, some FA. I still did not score high enough to maintain my clinical outstanding though! Grrr. Sorry, just venting. But it should be enough to do well. I would agree IM blueprients is not sufficient probably since the Blueprint series tend to be less detailed.

 

[Blade28]

I think I used Pre-Test (Medicine and Physical Diagnosis), MKSAP, and something else...it was too long ago now. 🙂

 

[futuremed]

what do you think of NMS?

 

[Blade28]

Ah, THAT'S the book I used! The blue one! Great stuff. I used NMS for my text, Pre-Tests for questions, and MKSAP for further (tough) review.

 

[futuremed]

thanks, sounds good.
That book has limited illustrations though, X-rays, pictures,etc...

 

[Blade28]

True...I think I just focused more on understanding the numerous diseases via their nice outline format.

The illustrations I used were mainly EKGs from Pre-Test and relevant journal articles that were given to me by my residents, and IIRC, my shelf exam was heavy on the Cardiology topics.

 

[AbuJadenDO]

Do the MKSAP book!
IT'S TIME CONSUMING but oh so worth it

 

[blz]

mksap didn't help me answer a single question on the shelf. the answers to all my questions on the shelf were in step-up medicine. thats definitely the best resource for medicine.

 

[james.dellolite]

what is NMS?