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Presents an effective system for learning and review. Provides students with the knowledge to apply in clinical situations, diagnoses, surgical decisions on common presentations, and preparation for the USMLE Step 2. Numerous case studies included. Softcover. DNLM: Surgical Procedures, Operative–Case Report.
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The product arrived within given time range and was in excellent new condition. No complaints.
Rating: 5 / 5
There are better books out there for reviewing surgery, but I read this one (as one of several) and performed well. So, I can’t say I wouldn’t recommend it. Just not one of my favorites. I also liked First Aid and the abdomen section of Step Up. Remember the shelf is written with an internal medicine slant.
Rating: 3 / 5
I was ecstatic at trying this book after seeing the reviews. I read it twice, and I honestly admit that it is an excellent source. It is very clinically oriented and presents each case in a clinical vignette that has a number of questions that follow. The questions are organized enough to help students understand decision making in surgery. On the shelf examination I estimate that 30-40% end the question with “what would be your next step.” This book helped me tackle these questions the best that I could. However, the problem comes up when people say that this book is all that and a bag of potatoes. Still 60-70% of the question I had were not management questions. They dealt with diagnosis and complications of diseases, and this is where the book falls short. NMS casefiles does a fair job of covering these topics, but it is by no means comprehensive enough to get you in the 99th percentile. In fact, the case files format often makes it difficult to compare conditions clearly (e.g. cholangitis vs. cholecystitis) and the differences in management conditions. At the end of this book, you may have some difficultly delineating where one diagnosis ends and the other starts. I relate this mostly to the lack of good diagrams and tables that would allow clear contrast between items. Rather, most everything is contained in the text. In retrospect, I wish that I would have selected a source like First Aid or Blueprints to read through before doing this book. I don’t think that I needed to background to understand this book, but it would have at least laid out complications of diseases and clear contrasts between conditions that are a little hazy in this book.
Rating: 4 / 5
As I am preparing for the NBME surgery shelf exam I have read case files and done some UWorld questions, but wanted to read another book in the last week remaining. My roommate let me borrow this book as she said it was good for her. I do agree that it is a very thorough book that help with the “next best step,” or “most likely diagnosis.” That being said, one, you already know what the answer to the latter question will be based on the chapter and section (IE: ch8 lower GI disorder, first section, small bowel, first presentation, crampy abdominal pain, gee I wonder what it could be!). Also, it gets tedious after a while reading small excerpt then another mini question. I know this is the way we are supposed to think, but it still a bit annoying. Accordingly, I have to read this book in small doses. I will say the good use of diagrams, radiology, and quick cuts make it superior to case files. I recommend if you use this book, to either use it before cases, or use it later in your rotation after you have approached the topics briefly already, this was you will actually have a chance at answering some of the questions this book has. If you use it without much surgical knowledge, you will not know many of the answers and it will be a difficult read. Overall, a more advanced med student review book that will definitely help prepare you for the shelf exam…unless your concentration level is very low, then this book may frustrate you very much!
Rating: 4 / 5
The NMS casebook and surgical recall make a really good set. While Recall is just a list of high yield facts organized around a known diagnosis the NMS case book is organized by surgical discipline with a walk through of disease presentations and discussion of key features.
It reads like more of a text book than case files which I liked given that I was not going to use another textbook for surgery. If you are looking for pure clinical cases in more of a questions and answer format go for casefiles or even pretest.
Rating: 5 / 5