Pediatrics

by Bradley S. Marino and Katie S. Fine

Book Overview

Clear, concise, and complete with more than 100 board-style review questions, Blueprints Pediatrics delivers a succinct, "need-to-know" review perfect for a pediatrics rotation and exams. This... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0781782511
• ISBN13: 9780781782517
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
• Length: 364 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.9" x 9.9"

Customer Reviews

One of the best in the series!

This book is fairly comprehensive and will cover just about everything you will need for the shelf exam at the end of the peds clinical rotation in medical school and for usmle step 2. It is by far one of the best in the Blueprints series. The only other book I used was the "Peditatric Pearls" book which I read and carried with me because of its compact size. Harriet Lane is not necessary for medical students..more appropriate for residents in pediatrics or those who definitely want to go into pediatrics and doing 4th year electives/acting internships.

BLUEPRINTS SERIES - GREAT

As with most of the blueprints series for clinical rotations, the book for Peds is an excellent source to use early on in the rotation to pump knowledge into your brain. Use this text to weave the fabric connecting the entire rotation. Use UpToDate or big, fat peds texts (Nelsons, Rudolphs) to learn specifics about your patients. And finally use a question book (Appleton and Lange, for example) to prepare for the shelf.

Excellent for the shelf exam!

I just took the Pediatrics shelf exam having studied this book thoroughly, and I thought it was superb. The authors did an excellent job selecting high-yield topics and covering them without extraneous detail. However, you really do have to know everything in the book, basically everything that made it into this book is pretty critical.I also found it handy to add any other facts I learned over the course of the rotation into the margins of the book. It leaves you with a reasonably thorough study guide.Some people insist on reading Nelson's or another mega-text, but I can't imagine anyone remembering 900 (dense) pages with only three weeks or so of studying. I'd go with blueprints any day.

Quite good review for Step 2, and excellent for the wards.

This book helped me score well on the Step 2 exam; I did particularly well on the peds section and I'm not going into that specialty! The book has too much detail in some chapters, but overall it's an excellent review. It goes well with the other blueprints books, particularly medicine and surgery. Ironically, this book helped me understand many adult diseases too! Well worth a buy.

Quick for on-the-wards reference and test review

"Blueprints" is a terrific book for medical student use during a basic or advanced rotation in pediatrics, written by Pediatric residents at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Although it's certainly not exhaustive, the book provides a brief (usually 2-3 pages) discussion of a disease, its presentation, the differential diagnosis, and its treatment. The text is often in easy-to-skim bullet format, with illustrative tables/x-rays accompanying it. I read this book as I went through my rotation, and then when the test came along, it was a nice one-day review--I'm saving it for the USMLE step 2!