Nms Review for USMLE Step 2

by National Medical School Review

Book Overview

Now in its Second Edition, this book is a comprehensive resource that guides preparation for the USMLE Step 2 clinical science examination. The contributing authors are teaching faculty at National... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0683302833
• ISBN13: 9780683302837
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Lippincott Raven
• Length: 506 Pages
• Weight: 2.70 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Study Aid for Step 2.

Still great material for Step 2. Make sure you go thru all explanations. Explanations are also good as a study text since they are written by Dr. Goljan and all those other guys teaching for Kaplan.

excelent

Its truely a good preparation for Step 2 the questions are alike and the detailed answers make the difference. I'm recomending this book for all who are studying. The first part about 'how to learn' is helpfull.

NMS Review for the USMLE Step 2

Very good book. Many questions on the exam were very similar if not the same, there are only so many ways you can rewrite a question. This book covered pretty much everything and brought certain things to your attention that you might have skimmed over. If you are able to pass the exams in this book you will do fine on step 2. Good buy, especially for the price. Good Luck.

Good Review Book (paperback edition)

Generally it's provides good practice tests, however, about a third of the questions are non-board-like questions (300 out of 900). However, the other two-thirds (600) are board-like questions and the answers are sufficiently detailed to joggle your memory on important areas that you may have inadvertantly forgotten. I give this question book 4 stars due to the poor format of that third already mentioned . I gave 5 stars to the "Pretest Clinical Vignettes for the USMLE Step 2" because 95% of its questions (400 in total) were in a current board-like format, i.e. "What is the diagnosis?" and "What is the next step?" I recommend both of these books for anyone who likes to do lots of questions to prepare for board exams.

First practice tests that you should work on

If you are an IMG, start from working on the tests on this book. This is the standard tests that many of us worked on. I agree that the clinical viganettes are shorter than the real exam, and some of the questions are too much in detail. However, they do cover the important topics that actually appear in the exam. If you are able to answer all the questions in this book, you are sure to pass the exam. Do not forget that you are required to answer the multiple choice questions at the exam, and that does not always mean that you know about the topics in depth. So the shortest way to pass it is to practice its format. Further, there is a list at the end of this book that enables you to choose the questions on the subject that you are working on (e.g. surgery, OB/Gyn etc).