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Behavioral Science in Medicine

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This is a good book. However, the author also wrote the BRS Behavioral Science (Board Review Series). So if you're looking to study for boards, I recommend the BRS rather than this. It's much more concise and to the point. If you want a nice discussion of Behavior science, this book is a good read, however, it is definitely tailored towards a reader who will eventually be taking the medical licensing exams.

This book is straightforward and an excellent resource if Dr. Fadem teaches in your MBB course.

This is a good reference book for Psychology and or Psychiatry during Basic Sciences. It has some good practice questions and charts to help you learn what you need to know.

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I wish I had kept this book for my MS3 Psych Clerkship...it really is a gem.

well this book is required reading for my neuroscience/psychiatry class. doesnt give me too much leeway in deciding whether or not i want to buy it. fortunately for me, its well written, to the point, and occiasionally entertaining (did you know alcohol is good for you? i thought that maens like one glass of wine with dinner two or three times a week. i was wrong - it means 4+ drinks 4+ nights a week. thats a lot of drinking.) anyway it probably varies from medical school to medical school, but since fadem is my professor for this course, the topics highlited in the book are exactly what is stressed on the exams. hopefully that extends in general at other medical schools since she also writes for the NBME and so what she thinks is important *should* also be considered important by the NBME and so by other medical schools as well.

I absolutely love this book. It does a great job integrating psychology, psychiatry and behavioral science and biostats, and epi. Best of all it is written by the same author as BRS behavioral sciences and high yield behavior science. Worth the extra 100 pages of reading.