faowaz9
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Hello
Can i have your opinion rgarding reveiw through the blueprints for step2 CK please?
specially medicine and pedia.
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| p53
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my opinion about 'Blueprints':
'Obstetrics & Gynecology' - the best one among 'Blueprints'; highly recommended.
'Pediatrics' - excellent.
'Neurology' - very good, especially because neurology in Kaplan LN is poorly written and not enough.
'Psychiatry' - good, but may be not enough.
'Emergency Medicine' - so-so, too detailed for review.
'Medicine' - bad; absolutely not enough; with glaring omissions of many high yield topics (try to find, for example, even word about cardiomyopathies in it).
instead for IM I recommend:
Step-up to Medicine
Agabegi, 2004, 512p.
ISBN: 0781747872
'Surgery' - the worst book among 'blueprints' - total waste of time, money and paper; avoid.
Edited by p53 on 04/28/06 - 09:21 PM
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| SilatK
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Pediatrics is very good. Psychiatry well if you read for Step 1 this BP should be enough.
Medicine needs mor information.
Surgery- Not enough info. I do not know of anyother reviews. See BRS. For the other subjects I used BRS Gyn/obs and CMDT. Step 2 Crush and Kaplan notes.
Good luck!
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| faowaz9
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thank you for replying
God bless you
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| mmmm
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p53
what do u recommend then for surgery , physicatry ,and emergency medicine ?
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| p53
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For psychiatry I'll still recommend 'Blueprints psychiatry'. It's much better than 'High-Yield psychiatry' - I think there is not enough info in Dr. Fadem's book.
If you have enough time and need much more detailed source, you can get 'BRS Psychiatry', by Shaner, 2000, 448p. I guess Dr. Shaner is also the author of 'Kaplan LN: Psychiatry'.
For Emergency Medicine you can try 'First Aid for the Emergency Medicine Clerkship', by Stead, 2006, 416p. - it's too detailed though.
For surgery - I don't know - personally I'm reading 'NMS Surgery', 2000, 700p. but it's too big.
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| mmmm
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thanks a lot
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