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[snaggletooth]

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I've been reading Essentials of Surgery by Lawrence, but noticed it doesn't have any specialty (neuro, urology, ortho, ENT) in it. How much of the shelf is related to these branches if any? I'm also doing questions out of Appleton and Lange and after doing the trauma section found I desperately need a source other than lawrence for what I've been told is a large part of the test. Any suggestions? Thanks.

 

[ortho2003]

I read BRS surgery and did all the questions and did pretest. That was all the studying I did for the shelf and scored 90. I suggest dumping lawrence and picking up BRS.

 

[hotbovie]

Don't waste your time studying surgcial subs, there isn't much of that on the shelf exam. However, there is medicine (so much so that I acutally felt like I was taking a medicine exam!).

Oh, yeah, and if you have time, learn (cram) the normal swan numbers, too. Might come in handy.

 

[womansurg]

Originally posted by snaggletooth
I've been reading Essentials of Surgery by Lawrence, but noticed it doesn't have any specialty (neuro, urology, ortho, ENT) in it.

For our surg rotation we had both written and oral exams, and of the three oral questions one was a SDH (line drive baseball to the skull followed by a lucid interval and then rapid deterioration). There were a scattering of the other sub specialties on the written.

In any event, Lawrence is actually a two volume set. The second volume is all of the subspecialties.

 

[edmadison]

Originally posted by snaggletooth
I've been reading Essentials of Surgery by Lawrence, but noticed it doesn't have any specialty (neuro, urology, ortho, ENT) in it.

That's because the book is the "Essentials of GENERAL Surgery".

Ed

 

[snaggletooth]

good job ed

 

[ckent]

Don't waste your time on Lawrence essentials of subspecialty surgery, I am currently trying to trudge through it and it is a very difficult book to read. It spits out random facts at you and the book just does not flow, you don't know what's important or not important, and most of stuff seems pretty dated. I would recommend reading NMS for the subspecialty stuff, based on what I've seen, NMS says the same stuff as Lawrence, just more concisely and it makes it easier to read.