Customer Reviews

Family Practice Examination and Board Review

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Excellent review book. I can say without doubt that this book was very helpful to me and is a must for anyone who wants to pass/do well in the boards. A lot of questions/topics that was dealt with in this book actually was also covered in some form or other in this most recent exam of Dec. 3 2004. My advise is to go over this book tooth and nail, over and over and over again and then use a general review text such as the blue prints and you should be alright.

This is an excellent review book! I have read many board review books for my recent family practice board recertification. This book is the best although it is a first edition. It uses problem oriented approach and it teaches you along the way. It is well organized and covers all the systems in Family Practice. The answer and explanation follow the question immediately which is brilliant! I retain more facts and I really enjoy reading this review. (I usually fall asleep reading text book) It may take about 10 days to read the book throughly but it does worth it.

I used this for board recertification and I do think it was very helpful and would strongly recommend it. My trivial complaints: 1) The wording of some of the questions was fantastically convoluted. Fortunately the board exam questions were straight forward and did not require sentence diagramming. 2) There is tremendous variability in difficulty between chapters. 3) They should jettison the humor as it is forced, unfunny and as a result of stopping and thinking, "Oh , yeah, I haven't heard that one today," slows down the text. 4) I really hated the political and politically correct commentary.

I used this book to prepare for the Board Exam this year (2006) and found it to be exremely helpful, not only to pass the exam but also as a means of obtaining some really useful information for clinical practice. For instance, it provided a terrific approach to evaluating a patient with kidney stone disease. It really clarified the type of workup one should do and the various medical options for preventing a recurrence, something I had yet to see presented effectively. It was also funny at times and I would encourage the editors to include more humor. The only criticism I have is that it sometimes reviewed topics that are too specialized for family doctors and what we need to know both for the exam and for our practice. Some questions that are asked would be ones that only a subspecialist would/should know.

This board review book is excellent. It not only helped me with the boards but gave information useful in clinical practice. This question book was also interesting to read. Usually I read half a question book or less and give up out of sheer boredom. Who would have thought a board review book could actually be intersting?

Comprehensive, well organized, thoughtfully edited. I've been
recommending this book to all my colleagues as they approach
their boards. I've used several other review texts, but this one stands out.
5 stars.

Hi,
I had taken a 5 year sabbatical from Medicine (Boarded in ER and FP) so I had to take the SPEX as well as the FP Boards, and along with online CME sites, I primarily used this book - I took notes, then took "notes on my notes" - so I basically knew it backwards and forwards (I went through it 3 times). Not only did I EASILY pass the SPEX, but the FP Boards as well. I now find that being back in Medicine, just with doing this, I am well ahead of most of my practicing collegues. I found this a GREAT resource and would highly reccomend it!

Love the format of explainations after every question. After reviewing my in-service exams I found the topics and information very similar. I would definitely buy it again.

This review book has a straight forward question and answer foremat.
The reference sources located behind the answers of each chapter could have been more extensive.
But it had a comprehensive coverage of the topics needed for boards review.

All around a good review, many questions are not very boards like but they will help you review your general fund of knowledge of material which will be on the boards.

Use it for review, some sections give great academic reviews but others are weak and only superficially cover the topics.

Bottom line, I think if you just buy and review this entire book before the boards, you will pass.