Surgery Shelf Practice Questions?

[SeminoleFan3]

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Our school told us there were a few (maybe 20-30?) free questions to review for the surgery shelf that the NBME puts out, but I have yet to find these. Anyone know a link?

 

[SouthernSurgeon]

http://www.nbme.org/PDF/NBME2008SubjExams.pdf

 

[SeminoleFan3]

Thanks 🙂

 

[ShyFly]

I really liked Pestana and USMLE World Q's too for the shelf. Not free (depends who you ask) but good stuff!

 

[NikoNLS8]

are these much easier than the actual questions?

 

[SouthernSurgeon]

are these much easier than the actual questions?

I'd say these are pretty reflective of the variety of questions on the surgery shelf, and that they are appropriately representative of a typical "easy" shelf question.

 

[NikoNLS8]

How many of the questions on the test are of the "easy" type?

 

[Lals]

Are there any review books in particular that one would recommend for this shelf? First Aid for Step 2, possibly?

 

[Doctor Bagel]

I really liked Pestana and USMLE World Q's too for the shelf. Not free (depends who you ask) but good stuff!

👍 I also thought both the NMS books were good, but I focused on the shorter one (case something). Either way, you'll feel entirely sucker punched by the shelf, but you'll probably still do better than you felt like you did.