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Emergency Medicine: Pearls of Wisdom, Written Board Review

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If you're looking for something to help you review emergency medicine in general, or to review for your boards, do no buy this book. I have read through it myself and talked with two colleagues who have also used it- we all agree that it is filled with useless minutia not relevant to the practice of medicine either in real life or as would appear on board exams. There are a lot of other texts on the market today that are better in terms of their focus and relevance.

One other thing that is not reflected in the description: this book contains only questions and answers. The format is text- not multiple choice. There is no general overview in any section so the only information you get is contained within the terse answers that contain almost no explanations.

This book has system based chapters, plenty of open ended questions in each chapter. The final chapters are "imaging" and randomised questions which are great for a final review before the exam. You should also look at their oral board review text, which is even better (ISBN 1-58409-021-9). The questions that are there are mainly things that one ought to know when he is about to write the ABEM or CCFP-EM exams. It probably does not have enough esoteric questions for FRCP trainees. I sat down at our university book store when buying this book, and compared it to the others on the market (esp "pre-test") and found it to be superior. The one that I did not see is "PEER-V" put out by ACEP, but I hear that it is excellent.

I have read several books in prep for the written boards. I found this book to be the most comprehensive. Questions are short answer so that a great deal of information can be covered quickly. I read it twice in about 20 hours.

They nailed about 1/3 of the questions I saw on boards.

I read this text twice and scored in the 94% on written EM boards. This book is updated frequently. Several residents used it for the inservice and blew it away. GREAT BOOK