OMT Review 3rd Edition (Paperback)

by Robert G. Savarese (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 406 pages
• Publisher: Not Avail; 3 edition (March 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0967009014
• ISBN-13: 978-0967009018
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #30,014 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent source for the physician and medical student!, July 30, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: OMT Review (Mass Market Paperback)

This book is a must have, especially when studing for the board exams. I found the information easy to understand. And most of all the questions in the back are just like the questions on the boards. Don't bother with anything else! This is the best review book in osteopathic medicine.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good News Bad News, September 30, 2007

By	Kadee A. Brown "thesparrowhawk" - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This book has useful information for learning material that you will need to know in the classroom on on your boards.

That said, this book is riddled with errors. You have to be careful what you read, because there are typos on nearly every page.

The questions at the end of each chapter are moderately useful in asking about what you just read. However, the question blocks at the end of the book are atrociously bad. Many of the questions test your knowledge of concepts not presented in the book, so I suppose you can approach them as another learning opportunity, but as a question format they're not very helpful.

One example:
Supraventricular tachyarrhythmias that have been associated with hypersympathetic activity are most likely to arise from:
A. Right sided sympathetic fibers originating from T1-T4
B. Left sided sympathetic fibers originating from T2-T5
C. Left vagus nerve
(D and E are obviously wrong)

If you committed to memory the chart on page 104 (as you are supposed to for boards, see below) you will remember that the spinal cord level associated with the heart is T1-T5. There are 2 answer choices that fit that answer, and choice C is wrong because the vagus does parasympathetics. So you may be inclined to put B since the heart is, after all, on the left side. Well, you would be wrong, according to Savarese, as he explains in the answer explanation:

"Fibers originating on the right innervate the right heart and sinoatrial (SA) node...Left sided sympathetic fibers innervate the AV node." So the answer is A.

Very cute, but why didn't he include that information in the original text? He doesn't. Many of the questions end up this way, making for a frustrating exercise.

The one most important thing in this book, as regards to the board exams, is the chart on page 104 showing segmental sympathetic innervations. Since this chart is easily obtained from somewhere else, the value of buying this book is questionable at best. I suppose, looking back, that it might be worth it to get the book, if only just.

One thing going for this book is that it is a quick read; you can go through the whole thing at an easy pace in less than a week. Just heed my warnings about typos, errors, and the question blocks at the end are of dubious relevance.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent resource for board review., May 11, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: OMT Review (Mass Market Paperback)

The OMT Review by Savarese is a "must have" for Osteopathic Medical students. I bought this book close to the end of my second year to help me study for "boards" and I wish I would have bought it sooner.It would have been a GREAT resource throughout my first two years of school. The book is concise and complete in the knowledge a student will need to do well on OMT course exams as well as the COMLEX Board exams.