Surgery: PreTest Self-Assessment and Review [Paperback]

Peter L. Geller (Author, Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0071359540 | ISBN-13: 978-0071359542 | Publication Date: September 25, 2000 | Edition: 9th

This work reflects the USMLE Step 2's change in emphasis by adding 400 new clinical vignettes and deleting outdated questions. Each of the book's 500 questions have brief explanatory answers referenced to current neurology textbooks.

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

PreTest is the medical student's most dynamic weapon for mastering the USMLE Step 2.

Great for course review and clinical rotations, too! Surgery: PreTest asks the right questions so you'll know the right answers. Open it and start learning what's on the test.

PreTest is the closest you can get to seeing the test before you take it.

This one-of-a-kind test prep guide helps you:

*Get to know material on the actual exam
*Practice with 500 multiple-choice questions, many with clinical vignettes
*Build confidence, skills, and knowledge
*Find references with every answer

There are plenty of answers out there. But only PreTest delivers USMLE type question, in USMLE format.

Open this PreTest for:

*Format that simulates the exam
*500 Board-type questions
*Referenced answers
*Best prep there is for the USMLE Step 2. STUDENT TESTED AND REVIEWED

"...very appropriate to use in studying for the Step 2 exam. I think that it also would be useful to any students doing an advanced surgical rotation." - a medical student who recently passed the USMLE

About the Author

Norman Snow, MD is Professor of Cardiothoricic Surgery and Director of Surgery Clerkship at the University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 328 pages
• Publisher: Mcgraw-Hill (Tx); 9th edition (September 25, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0071359540
• ISBN-13: 978-0071359542
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,354,876 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Look for new interactive palm version, June 26, 2005

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Adam J. Pruett (Atlanta, GA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Surgery: PreTest Self-Assessment and Review: 10th Edition (Paperback)

Pretest now has standalone programs of the books (not the cumbersome pdf files). It is interactive in that it lets you choose your answer and gives you immediate feedback with right and wrong choices (no need flipping through pages), allows you to review missed answers, randomize questions and answer choices. Basically, it's a lot like qbank for third year. I used the palm version for surgery and loved it because I always had my palm with me and could do questions while I was waiting for an attending to finally scrub into a case. You'd be surprised at how small little bits of time add up! I finished pretest while only doing questions at the hospital in less than two weeks.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Too detailed of questions, but the explanations atone for it, October 1, 1999

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[e-mail] (El Paso, TX) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Surgery: PreTest(REG) Self-Assessment and Review, 8/e (Paperback)

Although the questions sometimes get too detailed for purposes of Step 2 - type exams, the explanations are excellent and tend to cover more basic facts. This atones for the occasional question that states, "current research states ..." and puts it in the grasp of most medical students. This is a good book to cover (or at least sample) if you are taking NBMLE shelf exams.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Wow, I have never been so disappointed..., April 26, 2005

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Bolo - See all my reviews

This review is from: Surgery: PreTest Self-Assessment and Review: 10th Edition (Paperback)

I don't normally write reviews for books but this was just inexcusable. I (a medical student) was using this book to study for my shelf exam in surgery and I couldn't believe how many mistakes there were in the answers section! Many of the explanations of the questions would clearly seem to say that the answer was, for example, (A) but then the answer listed would be (D). I assume these were all printing errors or something like that. Don't get me wrong, the explanations in this book are great and really helped, but it ended up taking me much longer than expected to go through the answers because I would really have to spend some time figuring out which answer was the REAL answer according to the explanation. And actually there was one explanation that was as far as I know completely wrong, but that may just be due to an outdated question.

In summary, really, with this being the 10th edition of Pretest Surgery, the number of errors in the answer section is really inexcusable. The book did help but I am sure there are other question books out there that may be better. While I generally like the pretest series, I would recommend waiting for the 11th Edition or get another book in this case. Using this book was just plain too annoying.