| | |  | Sewing, Craft & Hobby | Home » » » First Aid for the USMLE Step 3, Second Edition (First Aid USMLE) | | | | | | | Description: | | Let the authors of First Aid for the USMLE Step 1 show you how to ace the USMLE Step 3 with this proven survival guide. Written by residents who passed the boards and reviewed by top faculty, First Aid for the USMLE Step 3 delivers the content and practical advice you need to pass the USMLE Step 3. Turn to this trusted guide for: - High-yield information, mnemonics, and visual aids
- 100 mini-cases let you practice for the CCS
- Tips on how to register and achieve a top score
- 50 pages of NEW content, thousands of high-yield facts, and more clinical images
| | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Tao Le | | Paperback:
| 432 pages | | Publisher:
| McGraw-Hill Medical | | Publication Date:
| November 07, 2007 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 0071487964 | | Product Width:
| 2.12 centimeters | | Product Height:
| 2.68 centimeters | | Product Weight:
| 0.02 pounds | | Package Length:
| 10.8 inches | | Package Width:
| 8.4 inches | | Package Height:
| 0.8 inches | | Package Weight:
| 1.95 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 33 reviews |
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53 of 57 found the following review helpful:
Best of several not great books for Step 3Mar 02, 2005
By eye doctor
Lots of people suggest using Crush Step 3, but I looked at it, felt it was a) too thick and b) the questions and topics were not that relevant to the actual exam (especially in retrospect).
First Aid step 3 continues the long tradition of First Aid books for the USMLE's. But let's face it, you need the books less and less, and they put less and less into them for each one. The best one is/was for Step 1. Step 2 book was useful. Step 3 book is somewhat useful. (Having said that, it was the only book I studied from, to the extent that I studied, and I got over 240...).
The book has an above average number of typos and appears to have been rushed out.
The highlight is the 100 mini cases that have differentials and lab tests that are useful for the CCS cases.
But overall, I think it is the best review book for step 3. Not too much extraneous information, no fake questions that are either too easy or too hard. Just a lot of good info. Some of it is, however, utterly and completely irrelevant to the exam. And they could have spent more time reviewing outpatient material such as derm, emergency room, and less about inpatient medicine, almost everybody who takes step 3 does not need a review of inpatient anything after internship :)
29 of 31 found the following review helpful:
 AdamApr 14, 2005
By Adam Rosh
"Anooleaf"
Just finished taking step 3...I highly recommend First Aid, it is concise and, most importantly, the information in the text is relevant to the actual exam. It is easy to get through and I actually learned quite a bit reading it. Lastly, the description and tips it provides for the new interactive section of step 3 was invaluable, trust me.
15 of 17 found the following review helpful:
Excellent review for Step 3Jun 19, 2007
By Adam J. Pruett
I'm finally finished with these stupid exams! Like probably all of you, I didn't have much time in between work to study for this exam. Now more than ever it was important to find something that provided the most information in the least amount of time.
First Aid was really helpful here. The High Yield facts was helpful and packed full of what you needed to know for the MCQ's on the exam. But the book really stands out with the 100 CCS cases. I read this section a couple of days before the exam, along with doing the USMLE CD. It was very helpful in providing the language necessary to complete the cases quickly. To my knowledge, no other written source provides this review.
Even though First Aid was not the only source I used to study for the exam, I think it's absolutely necessary for a quick read to pass the last of these painful exams!
7 of 7 found the following review helpful:
 not very helpful despite good potentialSep 23, 2008
By kenneth
"Kenneth"
Basically, it is very skeletal review with too little detail and too many missing topics. It does overall good job to address some (yes, only some of the vast amount of step 3 facts) of the high yields topics though.
The cardiology section is unacceptably brief and missing out too many facts such as the management of the major valvular disease, which is critical on step 3!
So if you go over the online Q banks, especially usmleworld qs (very picky and detailed oriented questions) you would keep searching for the better explanations, which are completely missing out on this book.
Of course, I am referring to a review book, not a major text book. But even a review book, it must be reasonably detailed with sufficient coverage of the related topics.
This book would have been much better if the authors would add more details and add more diseases such as Rocky mountain spotted fever, Hyper/hypothyroidism in pregnancy, Geriatrics, opthalmology, trauma medicine, and Pediatrics/Adolescents medicine of better coverage.
It is simply too "lazy" book that hampers the hard earned good reputations for the FA step 1 and 2 in which I did use them extensively for the step 1 and 2.
8 of 9 found the following review helpful:
 There has to be something better!!!!Dec 15, 2006
By Kyle R.
I'm about to take my step 3 exam and I based my study on this book. It is divided in 2 sections, high yield facts and clinical cases simulator. The clinical case part is quite ok, gives you a rapid tool to do your cases. The high yield facts part, on the other hand, has several errors and facts that I really don't know where they came from and cost me some questions during questions practice... Since I started to doubt of the accuracy of this so called high yield facts, I had to invest more time in confirming some of them. There has to be a better book.
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