Product Description
Ideal for USMLE preparation and course review, the streamlined, easy-to-follow hierarchical outline format guides students through the most important aspects of each discipline. Extensive illustrations enhance the texts and convey difficult-to-understand concepts. Clinical correlations, numerous tables and charts, and USMLE-style questions in clinical vignette format help students evaluate their strengths and weaknesses.
From the Back Cover
THE EXPRESS ROUTE TO USMLE EXCELLENCE IN PHARMACOLOGY
*HIGH-YIELD * ILLUSTRATED * USMLE SHORTCUTS*
You'll never find an easier, more efficient, and more focused way to ace the pharmacology and pharmacology-related questions on the USMLE and course examinations than the USMLE Road Map. Designed to provide maximum learning in minimum time, this USMLE Road Map offers a concise, creative, and well-illustrated new approach to mastering pharmacology.
The right way – the right questions – the right results
*USMLE SHORTCUTS for effective USMLE preparation
*OUTLINE FORMAT guides you through the most important areas in pharmacology
*HIGH-YIELD FACTS promote comprehension and recall
*TWO-COLOR FORMAT AND ILLUSTRATIONS make essential concepts easy to understand and remember
*LEARNING TIPS AND TRICKS garnered from years of interaction with students just like you
*CLEAR EXPLANATIONS from instructors with the experience to know the questions you would ask
YORUM: This book makes a great addition to your arsenal of medical board prep books. It's from the same authors of the Lange pharmacology review; a book rated high in the board prep bible: "First Aid for the USMLE Step 1". This book is more concise, however, and very easy to read. It gives you a good framework from which to build your knowledge base of pharmacology. It doesn't just provide lists of drugs nor does it drone on with minute details. Instead it explains the mechanisms of each drug class, providing most of the important drugs as well as their clinical indications, contraindications and toxicities. It does tend to shy away from offering mneumonics, however, but sometimes other people's mneumonics can be far-fetched and cumbersome in the learning process. I recommend the book as a starting point in getting a grip on the huge amount of material inherent in the study of medical pharmacology. It also works great as a last minute high-yield review of pharm before your exam.
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USMLE 1-2-3, USMLE Road Map: Pharmacology,Bertram G. Katzung,2003
