USMLE Step 3 Recall [Paperback]

Michael M. Ryan (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 078173617X | ISBN-13: 978-0781736176 | Publication Date: September 15, 2002 | Edition: 1

The newest title in the popular Recall series, this text focuses on preparing for the third and final part of the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE). Presented as a series of rapid-fire questions on the left and answers on the right, readers are given examples of both multiple-choice questions and extended patient management cases. All the major clinical subject areas are covered. Patients are presented in various settings such as acute care, emergency room and outpatient facility. This book also covers patient management issues, including ordering of tests, pharmacologic therapies, and cost containment.

Product Details

• Paperback: 704 pages
• Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 1 edition (September 15, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 078173617X
• ISBN-13: 978-0781736176
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.1 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 1.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,372,280 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Does not meet stated purpose., April 1, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: USMLE Step 3 Recall (Paperback)

This book was fairly useless. Many of the chapters are seeming exercises in verbal diarrhea - they discuss things that you will NEVER see on Step III in pages of mind-numbing detail. For example, there is a discussion on facioscapulohumeral dystropy, including its genetic location (4q35), it's epidemiology (1:200,000), and it's penetrance. Or the fact that emetine and metronidazole cause toxic myopathy in the setting of cardiomyopathy. Or the 1-page discussion on how to place a chest tube, including how long each incision should be (2-3 cm). Or "the sex-specific cutoffs of waist circumference identifying increased relative risk for the development of obesity-related risk factors in adults with a BMI of 24-34.9 kg/m2". In short, these are not review questions. The authors who contributed to the book thought they were writing short chapters in a specialty book for sub-specialists and the editor did not correct this misunderstanding. There were also a handful of mistakes that I noted, but nothing horribly blatant.

Buyer beware. This book fails in its stated purpose.

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars A waste of money. Not a review book at all., March 31, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: USMLE Step 3 Recall (Paperback)

This book was fairly useless. ... - they discuss things that you will NEVER see on Step III in pages of mind-numbing detail. For example, there is a discussion on facioscapulohumeral dystropy, including its genetic location (4q35), it's epidemiology (1:200,000), and it's penetrance. Or the fact that emetine and metronidazole cause toxic myopathy in the setting of cardiomyopathy. Or the 1-page discussion on how to place a chest tube, including how long each incision should be (2-3 cm). Or "the sex-specific cutoffs of waist circumference identifying increased relative risk for the development of obesity-related risk factors in adults with a BMI of 24-34.9 kg/m2". In short, these are not review questions. The authors who contributed to the book thought they were writing short chapters in a specialty book for sub-specialists and the editor did not correct this misunderstanding. There were also a handful of mistakes that I noted, but nothing horribly blatant.

Buyer beware. This book fails in its stated purpose.

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars This book should be recalled, August 11, 2004

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This review is from: USMLE Step 3 Recall (Paperback)

I have bought this book immediately after it was published and I didnot have a chance to see others opinions about this book. I do understand that writing a book is a very difficult task, but misnaming and misdirecting it is unpardonable. This book is good for its knowledge base, but I found it not so useful for Step 3 of USMLE.