Blueprints Surgery (Paperback)

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Product Description
More than just Board review for USMLE, Steps 2 & 3, Blueprints Surgery, 3rd edition can help you during clerkship rotations and subinternship. The new edition has been updated with the help of residents to maintain a student-to-student approach. Features include:

Concise, accurate, clinical high-yield content covering all you need to know for the USMLE and rotations

USMLE style questions with full explanations provided in the answers

Key Points in every section highlighting the most important, high-yield information for each topic

Color-enhanced design to increase the usefulness of figures and tables

Product Details

• Paperback: 152 pages
• Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; Third Edition edition (May 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1405103329
• ISBN-13: 978-1405103329
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 8 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #729,347 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars High yield concise review for wards and Step 2, January 22, 2001

By	briw "briw" (New York, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Blueprints in Surgery (Paperback)

I did particularly well on the surgical subcategory of Step 2, and it's owed to this book. Hands down, it's the best, highest-yield 3rd/4th year review for surgical disease - including epidemiology, symptoms, signs, diagnosis, and management. Awesome for review before the big test; also useful for overview of surgical diseases during your clerkship. One small complaint: it costs lots of dollars for about 100 pages.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars blue prints for surgery ( blue prints sereies), April 6, 2000

By	docramaa (usa) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Blueprints in Surgery (Paperback)

blue prints surgery is a very good review book for surgery .it is just 113 pages which makes it very easy to study and covers the important topics tested in the usmle. has got very good diagrams and tables.not for indepth study, but good source of reveiw for the boards.i recommend this book for anyone preparing for the boards.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not that good., May 20, 2006

By	Ocular/Orbital Surgeon (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Blueprints in Surgery (Paperback)

I used many of the blueprints books during my clincal rotations in medical school. This one was by far the worst one. The information is more of a cursory overview of several topics. There is just not enough scope or detail in this book for it to be useful. I used this book in conjunction with "Surgical Recall" which is an excellent book. I also referred to the "Essential of General Surgery" book on some specific topics such as fluid and electrolyte management that are not well covered in either book.

Perhaps future editions of this book will be better.