BRS Gross Anatomy (Board Review Series) [Paperback]

Kyung Won Chung (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 15, 2000 | ISBN-10: 0683307274 | ISBN-13: 978-0683307276 | Edition: Fourth

BRS Gross Anatomy, Fourth Edition, is the first of the books in the Board Review Series to assume a primary role as a course review and textbook. Used by medical students in first-year anatomy courses, this book offers 500 USMLE-style review questions, answers, and explanations. Written in a concise, bulleted, outline format, this well-illustrated text features comprehensive content and upgraded USMLE Step 1 information.

Product Details

• Paperback: 449 pages
• Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; Fourth edition (August 15, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0683307274
• ISBN-13: 978-0683307276
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 7 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #423,774 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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28 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Was not a big fan...at all., May 18, 2006

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Ocular/Orbital Surgeon (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: BRS Gross Anatomy (Board Review Series) (Paperback)

I really think highly of most of the books in the BRS series. This book was an exception. BRS Physiology, BRS biochemistry, and BRS Pathology were outstanding and very pertinent to material tested on the USMLE. I even thought BRS pharmacology was pretty good despite others having mixed feelings about it. This book is by far the WORST in the BRS series that I have encountered.

Anatomy is not a heavily tested topic on USMLE, and the anatomy related questions are becoming more and more clinically based. This book lacked that type of focus. I found it difficult to read, with poor diagrams/illustrations, and filled with clinically irrelevant minutia. This book would probably be more interesting to those pursuing graduate degrees in anatomy...maybe as a review book for them.

So unless you have a particular interest in anatomy, this is NOT a good book for board review, or even as a supplement for medical school anatomy.

For board review "High Yield Anatomy" combined with "First Aid.." is sufficient.

For medical school anatomy, check out the books by Moore such as Clinically Oriented Anatomy and Essential Clinical Anatomy.

18 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Only just another anatomy text, March 26, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: BRS Gross Anatomy (Board Review Series) (Paperback)

This book certainly does not deserve the positive comments it has, true it is a small book compared to other anatomy texts, but it also lacks alot of the important details and fine points that are regarded as been essential to a medical course in anatomy. It has terribly few diagrams and even those which are there are of little value since they're too small, and don't often enough tell you the important points. It's an OK book, just like any other text on the market with nothing special to it. And it may be suitable and highly regarded only to those studying at the institutuion the author teaches at.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars not good at all..., June 21, 2005

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a medical student - See all my reviews

This review is from: BRS Gross Anatomy (Board Review Series) (Paperback)

I bought this book at the end of the semester to review for the gross anatomy shelf exam. I quickly discovered that the text is horrible, diagrams lacking, and the questions are FULL of errors. I loved BRS neuroanatomy and physiology, but this book isn't very good. I put it down after half a day of frustration and just focused on Netters (and kicked butt on the shelf).