Turbo Mnemonics for the Boards 2005-2006! Over 400 Memory AIDS to the Most Commonly Asked Material on the USMLE Clinical Steps and Internal Medicine Boards [Paperback]

Bradley D. Mittman (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0972682767 | ISBN-13: 978-0972682763 | Publication Date: July 1, 2005 | Edition: 3

Already being hailed as "The Ultimate Review for Boards & Other exams, this book was designed to help you retain better and recall faster. Whether your goal is to simply pass your USMLE clinical steps 2 & 3 or your MEDICINE BOARDS, or you simply want to be the star on rounds & attending pimp sessions, we guarantee Turbo Mnemonics will markedly improve your study efficiency and win you a lot more points on rounds, rotations, and especially the BOARDS! Turbo Mnemonics represents just the memory aids portion of our board review curriculum. Read on to learn about our other incredible products and curriculum or simply visit Frontrunners' website: GOFRONTRUNNERS. This book was created in order to make your study life and your medicine career easier. With over 400 anagrams and other mnemonics, tips, tricks, and shortcuts, this book LITERALLY spells out what you ll have to know for the medicine components of your USMLE steps 2 & 3, and the MEDICINE BOARDS. Indeed, if you re prepping now for the USMLE, you ll be way ahead of the game when it comes time to take your medicine boards. As you browse this book, you ll find OVER 400 PRICELESS MEMORY AIDS on all your favorite subjects organized alphabetically by the disease or condition. In addition, you ll definitely want take advantage of the APPENDIX section, which features a SUMMARY of all 400 memory aids found in the book with their page numbers to help you QUICKLY LOCATE your favorite mnemonics or just the information you need! Of course you may simply choose to take advantage of the well-designed and thorough Index section as a final means of look-up. Each year FRONTRUNNERS offer it s Saturday & Sunday WEEKEND MARATHON REVIEWS, covering 18 hours of highly intensive Internal Medicine Board Reviews, 9 hours each day, and typically offered the first weekend each August. Ideal for most physicians who can only spare a weekend because of a busy practice or residency schedule, it's "fly in Friday evening; get back Sun evening". For upcoming dates/registration info for any of these weekends, CALL 866-MDBOARDs 8A-8P PST. Borrowing from our experience administering board reviews over the years, FRONTRUNNERS BOARD REVIEW has passionately in medicine and the medicine components of the USMLE, as well as current trends in content. We want to be able to share those ESSENTIAL COMPONENTS with you now and do it in a way that is both engaging and, most importantly, memorable! All of us remember what a lifesaver mnemonics were during our basic sciences, particularly when it came time and tensions were running high. Memory aids saved us tons of time and always improved performance. But there are astonishingly few such resources available in clinical medicine, particularly when it comes to board preparation, certainly not on this magnitude. Clinical mnemonics aren t only important because they help you remember better and recall quicker! They serve two other very important roles. First, they function as TEMPLATES to help you efficiently sort out, process, and even filter through information you ve either already acquired or will acquire post-Turbo Mnemonics. In their role as functional templates, you ll also be able SIFT THROUGH THE JUNK and reach correct diagnoses much more quickly and with greater ease, particularly when faced with cases on the boards or the wards. As you acquire new info, you ll know EXACTLY WHERE TO HANG IT in on your framework and you ll see exactly how it fits into the bigger picture! That may even be the biggest advantage of all. Most all of us would agree that intelligence & performance don t necessarily jive when it comes to standardized exams. Sure, brains matter. Of course, study time matters. Perhaps the most important element, however, is WHAT you study, that is, what MENTAL TOOLS you take into the exam with you.

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Just one of the hidden treasures in Frontrunners' arsenal of board review products, this exam review, covering over 400 memory aids and shortcuts, is a one-of-a-kind review that will win you plenty of points on the medicine components of the USMLE Step 2 & 3 as well as for the INTERNAL MEDICINE BOARDS. Equally important, Turbo Mnemonics for the Boards 2008 will also help you lock-in everything you thought you learned. And hey, it's just plain fun and will make you look like a star every day on rounds, whether you're a med student, resident, or attending. Frontrunners'  "When all you wanna know is what you GOTTA know!" reflects their realistic philosophy toward medicine in cert and recert exams & USMLE each year. So if you're at all serious about excelling on your boards, you'll definitely want to checkout the Q&A COMPONENT of Frontrunners Internal Medicine Board Review curriculum. OTHER KEY COMPONENTS TO ENSURE YOU PASS YOUR MEDICINE BOARDS INCLUDE: 1) FRONTRUNNERS INTERNAL MEDICINE BOARD REVIEW SYLLABUS !, a must if you're serious about passing your I.M. boards 2) FRONTRUNNERS 2008 INTERNAL MEDICINE Q&A REVIEW: Syllabus Companion for Board Review, AND featuring over 1300 of the most realistic Q&A prep anywhere! 3) SLIDE SHOWS  on CD FOR THE MEDICINE BOARDS, featuring all the key images you'll have to know before going into your exam, in full-color, fully legended, and beautifully presented; straight out of the Weekend Marathon Review! 4) FRONTRUNNERS AUDIO CD SYLLABUS (17 digitally-mastered audio CDs covering 18 hours of review, precisely as presented in our Internal Medicine Board Review); and finally… 5) WEEKEND MARATHON REVIEW Course, offered each early August. The Weekend Marathon Review Course has been widely and enthusiastically embraced for its unconventional, no-nonsense approach to internal medicine board review. Call us toll-free at 866-IMREVIEW or 866-MDBOARD or simply visit us at GOFRONTRUNNERS to find out about our upcoming reviews and our board review packages for major savings. Our current promotion includes Frontrunners 2008 INTERNAL MEDICINE Q&A REVIEW book HALF-OFF with purchase of the Frontrunners' Internal Medicine Board Review Syllabus ! Our resources, experience, and customer service are second-to-none. As always, materials ship out within 24 hours to arrive anywhere in the country within 2-3 business days. --

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FROM THE PUBLISHER:

Just one of the hidden treasures in Frontrunners' arsenal of board review products, this exam review, covering over 400 memory aids and shortcuts, is a one-of-a-kind review that will win you plenty of points on the medicine components of the USMLE Step 2 & 3 as well as for the INTERNAL MEDICINE BOARDS. Equally important, Turbo Mnemonics for the Boards will also help you lock-in everything you thought you learned. And hey, it's just plain fun and will make you look like a star every day on rounds, whether you're a med student, resident, or attending.

Frontrunners' "When all you wanna know is what you GOTTA know!" reflects their realistic philosophy toward medicine in cert and recert exams & USMLE each year. So if you're at all serious about excelling on your boards, you'll definitely want to checkout the Q&A COMPONENT of Frontrunners Internal Medicine Board Review curriculum.

OTHER KEY COMPONENTS TO ENSURE YOU PASS YOUR MEDICINE BOARDS INCLUDE:

1) FRONTRUNNERS INTERNAL MEDICINE BOARD REVIEW SYLLABUS !, a must if you're serious about passing your I.M. boards

2) FRONTRUNNERS INTERNAL MEDICINE Q&A REVIEW: Syllabus Companion for Board Review, AND featuring over 1300 of the most realistic Q&A prep anywhere!

3) SLIDE SHOWS on CD FOR THE MEDICINE BOARDS, featuring all the key images you'll have to know before going into your exam, in full-color, fully-legended, and beautifully-presented; straight out of the Weekend Marathon Review!

4) FRONTRUNNERS AUDIO CD SYLLABUS (17 digitally-mastered audio CDs covering 18 hours of review, precisely as presented in our Internal Medicine Board Review); and finally...

5) WEEKEND MARATHON REVIEW Course, offered each early August. The Weekend Marathon Review Course has been widely and enthusiastically embraced for its unconventional, no-nonsense approach to internal medicine board review.

Call us toll-free at 866-IMREVIEW or 866-MDBOARD or simply visit us at UltimateReview d o t com to find out about our upcoming reviews and our board review packages for major savings. Our current promotion includes Frontrunners INTERNAL MEDICINE Q&A REVIEW book HALF-OFF with purchase of the Frontrunners' Internal Medicine Board Review Syllabus ! Our resources, experience, and customer service are second-to-none. As always, materials ship out within 24 hours to arrive anywhere in the country within 2-3 business days.

KEY INFO TO HELP YOU REGARDING LATEST EDITIONS:

**Finally, whether you're getting...1) FRONTRUNNERS INTERNAL MEDICINE BOARD REVIEW SYLLABUS and/or 2) Frontrunners Internal Medicine Q&A REVIEW (Syllabus Companion), featuring over 1300 Q&A for the boards and/or 3) TURBO MNEMONICS for the Boards...ALWAYS MAKE SURE you're ordering the latest editions of course.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Frontrunners Publishing; 3 edition (July 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0972682767
• ISBN-13: 978-0972682763
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #969,400 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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58 of 60 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars BRILLIANT RESOURCE! OUR PASS RATES SHOT UP., November 15, 2005

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G Singer - See all my reviews

This review is from: Turbo Mnemonics for the Boards 2005-2006! Over 400 Memory AIDS to the Most Commonly Asked Material on the USMLE Clinical Steps and Internal Medicine Boards (Paperback)

As Residency Director, I invested in Turbo Mnemonics for the Boards and some of Frontrunners other Internal Medicine Board Review resources for our own internal medicine board review prep course in an effort to boost seriously lagging results. All the residents who used the book, which we had to keep on a tight leash, found Turbo Mnemonics to be a truly brilliant review of internal medicine through mnemonics. Retention rates were extremely high with this book when we did our own weekly quizzes. The book is extremely well organized, and the mnemonics are simply genius. All of the mnemonics are either named with a term related to the disease itself that's being summarized, OR are simply so clever, that you can't possibly forget them! In the end, using Turbo Mnemonics, Frontrunners Internal Medicine Board Review Syllabus along with the companion 1300 practice Q&A was the PERFECT recipe for success! For the first time ever in our institution, pass rates shot to 100%, making this Residency Director one happy guy. And residents came back after their exam saying the material in these 3 books was all over their internal medicine boards. Turbo Mnemonics is a brilliant board prep resource and nothing else even comes close when it comes to its 400 extremely clever clinical medical mnemonics. Naysayers (those shamelessly pitch their own products while pretending to be reviewing this book--see below-- only call attention to their desperation and L.O.W. I.Q., a mnemonic which stands for "Low on Wisdom. Insincere Qualms." Because of it's popularity among our own residency program, we ended up having to purchase individual copies for each resident, including our second years, who will be entering the ABIM zone soon. I keep mine next to my Harrison's. Frontrunners has samples of all 3 books on its website www.frontrunners.info. Outstanding internal medicine board review curriculum. Frontrunners, thanks for the pass rates. You make us all look good!

51 of 53 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Clever and Extremely Helpful!, November 23, 2004

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Sam Feldner - See all my reviews

This review is from: Turbo Mnemonics for the Boards, 2004: Over 400 Memory Aids to the Most Commonly Asked Clinical Material on the USMLE and Medicine Boards, Second Edition (Paperback)

What an incredible find. This is a book that basically summarizes all of internal medicine for the boards IN super-clever MNEMONICS. I've never seen a book of mnemonics quite this comprehensive. Of the 400 mnemonics, I have my favorite 20. This book really helped me excel on my USMLE Step 2 and USMLE Step 3. My friend used it for his Internal Medicine boards and loved it even more than me. It was part of Frontrunners Internal Medicine Board Review curriculum . Major kudos to Frontrunners, and thanks.

55 of 58 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars BLEW US AWAY. This was an incredible resource for the boards, September 21, 2004

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Bill Cohen MD - See all my reviews

This review is from: Turbo Mnemonics for the Boards, 2004: Over 400 Memory Aids to the Most Commonly Asked Clinical Material on the USMLE and Medicine Boards, Second Edition (Paperback)

This was an incredible review of Internal Medicine for the Boards using just memory aids. My friend used it for his Internal Medicine Boards, but I used it for USMLE Step 3 and both of us loved it. The book essentially takes all of medicine, or the commonly asked items on the boards (esp USMLE Step 3 and the Internal Medicine Boards) and summarizes all the key info you have to know using mnemonics, or memory aids, ALONE. Nicely organized alphabetically by disease. We used the book as a supplement with some of Frontrunners' other board review materials, equally outstanding and which we found at their website www.frontrunners.info/products.htm , esp the Q&A and Syllabus. We give the book and the curriculum 4 thumbs up!!