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USMLE Step 3 Recall (Recall (Wolters Kluwer))

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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.

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.

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.

Why in the world was this book created? I ask myself that because I looked through it and looked through it, finding that there were oceans of useless informaiton servedt to me on drab pages. The words seemed to run togethe,r the facts seemed so spread out, and then I saw the test it was supposed to help with and I thought - how?

I coudl think of a few reasons this would not work. the color blurs into one banner of bland. It hurts to have your eyes swallow it. It makes you tired and numb. As far as the awareness passed on goes, you would never need this. It has a million things to say but the retention cannot be great. so, really, are you getting a nice little shiny penny for your troubles?

a magic eightball gives me a little to recall - I think the two have the predictive powers of one another only I have not seen the stats on it. 2/5; it does have alot of 411 for your mind.