Mosby's USMLE Step 3: Specialty Clinical Sciences (PC Edition) (Paperback)

by Joseph L. Donnelly III MD (Author)

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Product Description
Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD. Outline review with multiple-choice questions and answers with rationales, for medical students' board examination review. Includes diskette with additional questions. Softcover.

Please note: the Macintosh and Windows versions are separate products:
Macintosh version is ISBN 0815127561
Windows version is ISBN 0815127340

Product Details

• Paperback: 483 pages
• Publisher: Mosby; Pap/Dsk edition (January 15, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0815127340
• ISBN-13: 978-0815127345
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,342,085 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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32 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Read this book . . pass the test., July 15, 2000

By	Lyle B. Forehand (rural California) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This book, much better than the Step II tome from the same series, is written in outline form by people who reportedly took and smoked the test. I believe it. I really think EVERY item in the book was on the test, and those items that are set in bold-face type, frequently represented 3,4, or even 5 questions. Some of these key points were not even to be FOUND in most other study-guides, let alone emphasized. The content is organized into bite-sized chunks, then is reviewable before the test even more rapidly. There is a CD included with lots of questions; be careful, though! The answers on the CD (at least in my edition) were not always accurate, although the answers to the (much fewer) questions in the book were. If you are at all comfortable with multipl-guess questions, and you have practiced medicine in the US anytime recently, this book, memorized, may be all you need. (If you want more, add Swanson) Re-reading this again and again will help you more than filling your head with a bunch of esoteric stuff that may help your real-world patients, but is unlikely to be found in the more typical patients about whom you will be tested in the Boards.

15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best Review Text, October 30, 2000

By	[e-mail] (Boston, MA) - See all my reviews

I am very careful about the sources that I use to prepare for exams. I can honestly say that this textbook was extremely helpful. It was filled with concise information that was not only on target - but often was repeated several times on the examination. I read the previous review that claimed that a Family Practice oriented text was better than this book in preparing him for the USMLE 3- it is hard for me to imagine. I have asked several of my classmates as well as several friends at Johns Hopkins and Baylor. We all agree that this book was exceptionally helpful- and that we would use it again in a heartbeat. The scores on our examinations reflect the fact that this book was right on target.

Honestly, I can't give MOSBY any higher praise than to say I enthusiatically recommend their text. I believe that it ensured my passsage of the exam- as well as made me a better physician.

12 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutey the best review book available for Step III, May 21, 1998

By	Pershing ([e-mail]) (U.S.A) - See all my reviews

This book ensured my passage of the exam. I am quite sure after having read this book that I not only passed the exam, I became a better doctor.