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Massachusetts General Hospital 1000 Psychiatry Questions & Annotated Answers

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The questions are ridiculously simple, and does not reflect the boards in terms of presentation, complexity and content. Even as a study guide it's focus is not evenly distributed, because that's what you need when you are prepaing for Part I.

I gave it 3 stars only because it has it's own niche. There are not many question books to use before taking the Part I.

Some of the neurology questions have errors (I used Kaufman's Clinical neurology for Psychiatrists as a Cross reference). The psychiatric questions are generally too easy, or have overly detailed and irrelevant facts, for example question 381. True/False "According to DSM IV, a traumatic event may involve witnessing a traumatic occurence", answer True, obviously.

Question 366 True False: "Use of valproic acid is associated with less than a two to three percent risk of NTD following 1st trimester exposure". Answer: False its about 5%"

Bottom line: Probably not worth your time or money. Low yield. I was quite dissapointed in this review material.

Two of the four questions on ME (CFS) show a bias that toward thinking it is a psychiatric illness. Things like "search for serious and treatable illnesses" and "tell the patient about the role of inactivity in causing fatigue" among others. Advocating more activity to an ME patient often results in increased morbidity because of post exertional malaise.

There are oven 4,000 articles in peer reviewed medical journals showing significant biological pathology in ME.

It's a great book with good questions.It was in a good state,didn't feel it was used at all.

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