step 2 books

[theodore]

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Hi everyone,
I would like your input on the following: After spending a couple of hours browsing Amazon, I could find review/question books on subjects like ped, internal,ob/gyn,psychiatry and surgery. However, I could not find anything on subjects like neurology, anesthesiology,orthopaedics/traumatology,opthalmology,forensics,urology,oral medicine,ent. I thought step 2 examines all the subjects studied during the clinical years, so what's the deal? The exam doesn't focus on these subjects or the publishers just haven t come up with titles for these topics? And if the exam does contain q's from these topics, how do you prepare for them?
Thanks a lot,
Theodore

 

[Scott_L]

You might find this useful from the USMLE.org:

http://www.usmle.org/step2/intro.htm

-Scott

 

[theodore]

Thanks Scott, although this was the first site i checked out.
I'm still not clear on why there seem to be no question books on the topics i listed. I went to Amazon and through the search function i checked all the major publishers(A&L, W&W, Mc-Graw Hill) and yet nothing. A&L had the biggest variety of q books for step 2, but still didn t find anything on the topics i listed.
Which leads me to the conclusion that step 2 must be concentrated on the 6th year finals(just like step 1 was mainly 3rd year stuff).