Shelf exam at the end of second year prep?

[anbuitachi]

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Does anyone know of good resources to use for studying for the shelf exam at the end of the second year? I am not sure what the official name is.. but here it's for Essential to clinical medicine class ..

 

[normtheniner]

Does anyone know of good resources to use for studying for the shelf exam at the end of the second year? I am not sure what the official name is.. but here it's for Essential to clinical medicine class ..

http://www.amazon.com/Physical-Diagnosis-Assessment-Clinical-Medicine/product-reviews/0071455515

 

[Siggy]

Are you talking about OSCE/standardized patient style checkout, or some sort of written exam covering... what?

 

[anbuitachi]

Uhhh they told us it's a NBME shelf graded from 200-800 at end of 2nd year, that is like a pre step 1 test w/o the pharm

 

[Kaustikos]

I'm honestly just going to rely on First Aid and Step-Up to Medicine. Step Up has been a saving grace for my clinical medicine course.

 

[BlaseFaire]

What's so good about that book?

 

[ijn]

It's a bit overkill for Step 1 preparation if you're utilizing it beyond the clinical presentation of the diseases. Learning the best diagnostic test or next best step in management is more for Step 2 CK and your clerkship shelf exams. Although I remember those kinds of questions were on my Step 1, they were the vast minority.

 

[Kaustikos]

What's so good about that book?

Compared to NMS? A lot. NMS sucked.

Overall? It does an excellent job providing information about clinical medicine that isn't covered in first aid. I agree it might be/probably is overkill, but it's a great resource that I have no issues going back to for any topic. It explains things in an amazing way. Helps you understand how you're supposed to approach diseases of different organ systems from a clinical perspective.

When I first read it, I was . But after having read through it multitudes of times, I'm glad I have it. If not for shelfs/step 1, definitely for 3rd/4th year.


But essentially - I'm using step up to annotate anything that first aid just doesn't really have/explain/cover well.