Let me get this straight......you are advising students to take my suggestion of using surgery texts as their #1 source to study for the surgery shelf and with a grain of salt? And too instead just study for IM?
Well, I did well on the exam and was just trying to help out. You can take my advice with agarin or salt if you won't, I definitely won't lose sleep over it. Fine, study for IM and trauma to shelf if you want. God be with you...
I really don't understand the Lawrence comment since if you visit the Surgery Clerkship it is frequently recommended. Use what works for you but, for the record, I say use any good surgery text. It doesn't have to be Lawrence but I thought Lawrence with First Aid was great and haven't used any others so I can't comment on them. But I didn't have to be on this board or any other for YEARS to find this out. All I did was put in a search for surgery and read a lot of relevant threads on the issue, some ven dating back a few years. So how long one has been a member of this or that particular board is really irrelevant.
Anyway, study your Internal Medicine text instead of a Surgery text for the SURGERY SHELF if you wish but before whoever is thinking about doing this, I suggest you tell your Surgery clerkship director about your plans. I won't continue a debate over someone else's exam preparation plans.