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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Ok, but not the best., May 20, 2006
I used this book while on my Fam med rotation during 3rd year of medical school. At the time, there were not many books designed for medical students specifically on FP. The was no First Aid or Blueprints Family Medicine book for example.
This book was just average. The FP shelf exam is one of the most difficult ones. I found that the format of the questions in this book did not really reflect the types of questions usually asked on those shelf exams. This book was not that helpful, it was tedious to work through, and overall not an efficient use of study time.
I found it more useful to read through the Blueprints books again on Int. Medicine, Peds, and Ob/Gyn. The "Outpatient Medicine Recall" book is actually really good and I would recommend that book very highly.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Decent, but may be overkill - 870 difficult questions!, February 25, 2008
This review is from: NMS Q & A: Family Medicine (National Medical Series Questions and Answers for Independent Study (NMS Q&A)) (Paperback)
Overall, this family medicine question book represents a decent review for the clerkship and shelf exam. I spent countless hours working through this book and managed to get through it once before the shelf, but I wonder if my time would've been better spent with another resource. Here are some things I noticed:
1. The cover clearly states "nearly 500 all new questions", but I counted about 870 questions! While more questions are welcome, it is definitely hard to master so many in a 6 week rotation. Had I known the true number of questions before, I would've considered purchasing the new Pretest Family Medicine book instead.
2. The style of questions does not resemble the nbme shelf exam questions (my subjective opinion after taking the shelf)
3. Some questions require a very detailed level of knowledge - to the point of splitting hairs to get the question right. Even after looking things up in several textbooks, there were some questions that I still could not find the answer to. I sometimes wondered if these were valid teaching points.
4. The answer explanation format could be better. Instead of listing each answer choice separately and stating why each is correct/incorrect, there is a paragraph. It was sometimes difficult to know which sentence went with each choice because there was no transition from one answer choice explanation to the next.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Don't bother, January 4, 2010
This review is from: NMS Q & A: Family Medicine (National Medical Series Questions and Answers for Independent Study (NMS Q&A)) (Paperback)
This question book was practically useless for the family medicine shelf. I would guess that less than 10% of the questions were relevant to the shelf or the family medicine clerkship itself. The questions focus on clinically irrelevant details of common diseases, and many of the answers seemed completely wrong. In addition, the question format was wordy, annoying and very different from the actual exam.
A much better choice would be to review the internal medicine, pediatrics and Ob/Gyn sections of the Kaplan qbook if you are the type of person who uses questions to study. Otherwise Case Files is probably a good choice by itself.
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