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Sixty high-yield cases!
You need exposure to cases to pass the USMLE and shelf exams and that's exactly what this innovative resource offers. Written by experienced educators, Case Files: Neurology, 2e helps you think through diagnosis and managemenet when confronting neurological clinical problems. Sixty high-yield clinical cases focus on the core competencies for the neurology clerkship. Each case includes an extended discussion, definitions of key terms, clinical pearls, and USMLE-format review questions. It's an interactive learning system that helps you learn instead of just memorize.
Featuring:
- 60 neurology cases with complete discussions and review Q&A
- Clinical pearls highlight key points
- Primer on how to approach the patient
- Helps you learn in the context of real patients
- Updated to reflect the most recent clerkship guidelines and changes to the core curriculum
- Series: LANGE Case Files
- Paperback: 480 pages
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill Medical; 2 edition (September 4, 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0071761705
- ISBN-13: 978-0071761703
- Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 0.8 x 9 inches
- Shipping Weight: 2.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Case Files Neurology, Second Edition PDF
Case Files Neurology, Second EditionThis textbook on neurology in the Case Files series contains fifty-four well selected cases comprising common conditions diagnosed and treated by neurologists. Topics discussed include seizure, stroke, dementia, head trauma, demyelinating disease, infectious disease, and the approach to headache, among others. The explanations of the cases (including diagnosis, pathophysiology, and treatment) are generally well written and of appropriate quality.By Student
Unfortunately, the multiple choice questions included for each case are of exceptionally low quality. They do not at all mimic the types of questions found on the USMLE Step2 or on the NBME Shelf Exam. For example, many questions simply give the reader a list of four statements and ask him or her to select the correct statement (one would never be asked to do this on a real exam).
The book is also absolutely riddled with typographical errors. This is surprising given that this is the second edition of the textbook. It also contains many outright factual errors. For example, on page 174, in the "clinical pearls" box, it states that Alzheimer's Disease is an "anterior cortical dementia", despite the fact that a mere six pages earlier, on page 168, it stated that Alzheimer's was the "prototype for posterior cortical dementia". Elsewhere in the book the authors make similarly contradictory statements, in one case recommending a CT scan with contrast as the initial study to rule out hemorrhagic stroke, despite having recommended a CT scan without contrast on the previous page.
Overall this is a useful book to prepare for the shelf exam and contains a well selected group of cases, including some diseases that aren't covered in the USMLE World Step2 question bank. However, the book is limited by its atrocious copy editing, factual errors, and weak questions. Readers should supplement this text with USMLE World or PreTest Neurology if they want a high score on the shelf exam.
I purchased this booknfor my third-year neurology rotation and to prepare for its shelf exam. Overall, the book is very well organized with few if any typos, good images,scans/pictures, clear explanations, and broad coverage of general adult/pediatric neurology. As with other texts in this series, it follows the same format of: case vignette, discussion, review of relevant topic, review questions, summary, and references. As far as preparing a student for the wards, it did a good job both covering all of the major topics, and providing enough detail without being a textbook. In this respect, it does a good job. The major drawbacks are in its epilepsy cases and preparing for the shelf exam. For epilepsy, there are ~4-5 different cases that each have this diagnosis, and this makes for a disjointed, even inconsistent discussion. I found myself somewhat confused by the topic even after re-reading. The neurology shelf was the hardest I've taken, and this book is not particularly high-yield for it; therefore, I think it'd be helpful to also have question banks such as PreTest and USMLE World to supplement this reading.By Zach E-P
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