Blueprints Pediatrics (Blueprints Series) [Paperback]

Bradley S. Marino (Author), Katie S. Fine (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1405105011 | ISBN-13: 978-1405105019 | Publication Date: June 26, 2006 | Edition: Fourth

More than just a Board review for USMLE Steps 2 and 3, Blueprints Pediatrics, Fourth Edition can help you during clerkship rotations and subinternship. This popular Blueprints book has been refined and updated while keeping its concise, organized style, clinical high-yield content, and student-friendly features.

This edition includes a new adolescent medicine chapter, new guidelines regarding the febrile infant and urinary tract infections, an updated cardiology chapter reflecting current USMLE requirements, expanded coverage of aberrant development and developmental delay, and completely revamped oncology and infectious disease chapters. The authors' dual backgrounds in academic medicine and private practice ensure timely coverage of emerging research and its clinical implications.

Product Details

• Paperback: 303 pages
• Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; Fourth edition (June 26, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1405105011
• ISBN-13: 978-1405105019
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 8 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #593,702 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars a, November 3, 2007

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N. Basu "MR2 Supra" (NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Blueprints Pediatrics (Blueprints Series) (Paperback)

Not too sure what to say about this book. I didn't want to give it a bad review bc it is an excellent book, however, it does not work for everyone.
First, the book is very organized and it doesn't use too many big words. Most of the information needed is in the book, though it is more on the sparse end.

The bad: well, this book did not work with me. I tend to like explanations that answer the 'why'. This book doesn't do that. In short, this book is excellent for people who were able to do well in medical school by reading lists and bulleted notes, but not for those who needed to read Robbins.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Decent review book, January 4, 2007

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Turd Ferguson (Temple, TX) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Blueprints Pediatrics (Blueprints Series) (Paperback)

This book is a fairly good book to be used in reviewing for the board exam, but absolutely requires supplementation. The strong points of this book over others is its inclusion of high-yield material and easy readability, along with charts and illustrations. The primary weakness of this book is its superficial coverage of these high-yield topics, while excluding many other testable topics you will see on the board exam. You might want to look into buying some other question-style books (Case Files, Pre-test, etc...) if you want to honor this clerkship. It's certainly no Surgery Casebook.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars not EXACTLY what i expected, August 9, 2007

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C. L. Bontempo (Wallingford, PA, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Blueprints Pediatrics (Blueprints Series) (Paperback)

I bought this book in order to finish my studies to USMLE STEP 2. It is comprehensive and up to date but i think it is not focused on the test as many other books are. As so, it enphasizes with too much details some points and keeps to superficial at others. Anyway I would buy it again and I recommend it to whom have a lot of time to prepare for the test because it will take sometime to cover it all but there is nothing you need to know that it is not there!