Family Practice Board Review [Paperback]

Robert L. Bratton (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0781733928 | ISBN-13: 978-0781733922 | Publication Date: February 25, 2002 | Edition: Second

The thoroughly revised Second Edition of Family Practice Board Review offers complete preparation for the American Board of Family Practice certification and recertification exams. It contains over 1,100 board-format questions--with detailed answers and explanations--covering the entire discipline of family practice.This edition features a pictorial atlas of clinical photographs, radiographs, lab smears, and more, to prepare candidates for the crucial exam questions about images. Other improvements include a greatly expanded psychiatry section and new sections in epidemiology/public health and emergency medicine. Explanations of clinical problems have been expanded into informative diagnosis/treatment summaries.Users of this book can earn 15 hours of Category 1 Continuing Medical Education credit. Please visit our Website at www.lww.com/cmeinfo for details.

Product Details

• Paperback: 351 pages
• Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; Second edition (February 25, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0781733928
• ISBN-13: 978-0781733922
• Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 8.5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (31 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #944,952 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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38 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Accurate Examples of Questions, December 16, 2007

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Steversmatrix "steversmatrix" (New York, NY United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bratton's Family Medicine Board Review (Family Practice Board Review) (Paperback)

I also found this $75 book to be more valuable than a $1000 "No Pass No Pay" Family Medicine Review Course. While that review course really delivered excellent information, little of it actually appeared on the exam. In contrast, this book contains questions very close to what you actually see on the test. Sure there are little mistakes and some annoying repetition of topics but nothing any of us could not get beyond. If you are not doing general geriatric and pediatric care or obstetrics, this book serves as a great starting point to explore the latest thinking. Similarly, if you don't do primary care, make sure to memorize the USPSTF and ACIP guidelines. Most importantly, do as many questions as you can from the ABFM website. I passed with above average scores but would have done even better if I had reviewed more of their sample questions. Good Luck.

32 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Bratton's Family Practice Board Review, August 7, 2006

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Carrie M. Britt "kevin" (Madison, IN United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Family Practice Board Review (Paperback)

After taking the recert. exam, I found that Bratton's review helped more than the 40+ hour review "boot camp" that I attented. Question foremat was very similar to the board exam.

23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Review of Core Subjects in Family Medicine, January 25, 2005

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G. Miller Jr. MD "revdoc" (Wayne, NJ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Family Practice Board Review (Paperback)

Family Practice Board Review is an excellent review of core subjects in family medicine. The text provides a breadth of coverage of information that commonly appears on the Board exam. The questions help to identify areas of weakness in the family medicine knoweldge base such that further, deeper study can become focused. The test questions are written in the style of the Board exam; this provides good practice for the real exam. My friend recently took the computerized version of the Board exam and said that the Bratton text helped him to study and pass. I highly recommend it, especially for family medicine resident physicians.