Step II OBGYN/Peds/Surgery

[SweetTonics]

I was hoping for some advice on reading material for these topics - I'm using UW, but I find I need a better foundation/good refresher of basics. My exam is sched for June 11 and I started studying about 1 week ago.

The books I have are:
Master the boards Step 2 (seriously lacking in non-IM topics?)
First Aid CK
Crush
Pestana's notes for surgery

Does anyone recommend certain sections out of each book? Any advice would be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance

 

[OveractiveBrain]

Do not add any resources.

Crush sucks except as a weekend warm-up. You don't get points from reading crush, but you do get a nice review of the things you were supposed to learn. Read that first, then swap over either to step-up or First Aid.

In general, if youre studying for the Step 2 (as has been reiterated many times in this forum)...

[UWorld] AND [FirstAid OR StepUp] is all you need for a 230+

That means...

UWorld + First aid
or
UWolrd + Step Up

If you struggled in your rotations or on your shelves, you might want to use Master the Boards and Petsana notes (i.e. you are using Kaplan materials) to bolster the more commonly tested stuff, but really, you dont need more than that. Too many resources is just information overload. Step 2 is more logical and more oriented to what you'll be doing in life, so it requires a lot less severe studying than did step 1.