Kaplan Medical USMLE Master the Boards Step 3 (Kaplan USMLE)
Selected Book Details
- Paperback
- Edition: Original
- Author: Conrad Fischer, Sonia Reichert
- Publisher: Kaplan Publishing
- Release Date: February 2009
- ISBN-10: 1427798338
- ISBN-13: 9781427798336
- List Price: $44.95
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Summaries and Customer Reviews provided by Amazon
SummaryKaplan’s Step 3 book, with vibrant full-color medical illustrations, will be the first book that covers the content of the exam in a logical and methodical fashion, emphasizing the following for several categories of residency:
This book will also review how to approach Clinical Case Scenarios, which make up 20% of a students' final score. The USMLE Step 3 exam evaluates a resident's ability to practice unsupervised medicine. It is a 2 day exam. Day 1 features 336 multiple-choice questions; day 2 features 144 multiple-choice questions and 9 Clinical Case Scenarios. |
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Best of the 3 Gold Standard Reviews
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As much as I hate Kaplan (the McDonald's of exams and USMLE with no hesitation to milk profit from poor students), this book is probably the best of the 3 books, which are:
1- This one
2- Crush by Brochert
3- First Aid
I personally like this the best and is the most complete and exam-oriented book. Heavy emphasis is placed throughout on what to do in the CCS scenarios and are, in my opinion, even better than the stand-alone section in FA, which is fairly worthless apart from a few cases which are valuable (so look through them somehow).
Brochert is a little too similar to USMLE 2CK, and while this exam appears similar, there are some differences which books really need to bring out, at least heavier CCS emphasis. Most books however, appear to have given up by the time it gets to USMLE 3 and just want to publish something that will sell, FA is classic for that and the standard deteriorates rapidly as you progress from USMLE 1 to 2 to 3... Sorry but making money comes second when it comes to my grade and I am a little annoyed as you can tell.
The money-back guarantee is probably crippled with restrictions but in fairness I cannot tell and base this on the cover disclosure. For the quality of the print, it should be a little cheaper and this is where it loses half a star in my opinion (a new highlighter will show on the other side of the page). The guarantee is nonetheless reassuring when you see the authors have confidence in their text, and that makes a difference, especially as it doesn't take much these days to publish a book ridden with errors and factual inaccuracies.
There are some sections in this book which are written phenomenally (cardiology) and others, less so. There, depending on your strengths, you may need help online for further clarification (nothing like having wikipedia open along with reading the book when unsure... my personal golden advice!). On the less well written chapters, this book loses the other half star.
There you go, 4/5 and probably the best out there.
Let me know if you need any further clarification... Last piece of advice, don't get bogged down with CCS, it's only 20% and there is a day and half of pure questions that are not CCS. Be careful not to lose focus here in your preparations.
Good luck
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Really easy to understand
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I've loved this book, it's really simple to understand everything that the author is trying to explain.
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Nice review before taking your test!!
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This is a very good book for review before taking your USMLE step 3 or step 2ck. It contains all what you need to "nail" the questions. I liked it very much.
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