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McGraw-Hill Specialty Board Review: Clinical Anesthesiology Board Review

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This is the only book I found that attempts to provide answers to an actual ABA exam -- good for practice testing. The authors seem to do their best to tackle some of the controversial questions.

I have just received my passing score for the written boards and this was a book I went over twice before the real test. It is GREAT!!! I have been recommending it to everyone studying for the boards. The more questions one can do before the exam, the better, and the resources are slim when it comes to questions that have full explanations of correct AND incorrect answers. This book is necessary to succeed, in my opinion.

This book appears quite reasonable to use as a study aid. Like most reviewers commented; there is no answer key from the board. Thus, the authors seem to (much like me) scratched their heads over quite a few questions without a true correct answer. The major draw for me was REAL board questions (many are outdated, but many concepts remain pertinent)with a brief summary of their reasoning and why each answer was correct or incorrect. Do not use it as your only tool, but part of a well rounded approach to the terror of the ABA board exam.

I used this book heavily for written boards. Did get frustrated when some comments in book were: The entire faculty of Stanford couldn't figure out this answer," or "there was no right answer for this one." That was frustrating. however, with careful study and effort, I passed written boards!

Excellent resource. I just took the ASA intraining exam to determine board eligibility and found many questions that were directly related to the questions in the book. The editors could have done a better job of spell-checking but that is a minor complaint.

Unfortunately the exam answer key is unavailable from ASA, if it were we would find that several of the answers given in this book are incorrect. I have discontinued using it to prepare for the boards.