Usmle Step 2 Secrets (Secrets Series)

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Summary: Great for review
Review: A great and simple book for REVIEW of ANY medical exam (USMLE, PLAB, MCC)

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Summary: Usmle Step 2 Secrets
Review: an excellent book, I recommend this book to any body who wants to take USMLE STEP 2. it reviews almost every high yeild points needed for this exam. I read other books (first aid step 2, ALS step 2, crush step2 and ....) but this one was the best. if you need only one perfect book go on for this without second thought. good luck.

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Summary: Must have
Review: Great review book. Friendly format, easy to memorize key ideas.
Higlhy recomend it! Makes your life much easier.

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Summary: I wish I would have read this prior to starting my clerkship
Review: I found this book a very easy review of every detail that I learned or should have learned through my clerkships. Some people claim it is too detailed; however, I believe it gives the perfect amount of detail and big picture review. It isn't one of those silly books full of memory aids.

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Summary: Easy reading
Review: I liked this book because at the end of the night you can pick it up and read a page or two and gain some high yield info. Sometimes at the end of the day you are just too tired to go out and read some chapter out of a review book, but with this book I feel like I am at least getting some high yield info that will hopefully help me when I am ready to start studying for boards.

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Summary: A treat!
Review: i very highly recommend this book! has the right emphasis, and there were LOADS of questions from within these pages on my step 2 exam. Not only does it give you high yeild stuff, but it gives you alot of confidence. I found it more enjoyable than its counterpart - crush the boards, which has, basically the same material, in a different format. The question-answer style is brilliant! there are a couple of mistakes in it (eg-CSF pressure is written in mm Hg instead of mm of H2O...stuff like that) but you can totally forgive him, cos he's helpin you so so much!!
Its a great investment. Much much better than first aid for step2
Buy it!!

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Summary: Just where to start
Review: I'm a foreign graduate from Paraguay. (Mbae'ichapa?)
After 6 years of medical school, you don't know where start to study or review your concepts for the Step 2 exam. This is an excellent book, easy to understand, question-answer form; take my advice and start from this book, keep on mind all the topics describe there, then complete with your school books.
For non-native English speakers, remember to practice to read fast in English for the exam.

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Summary: must have
Review: lots of case scenarios that ended up on the text, though not comprehensive...i definitely recommen

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Summary: right on the money
Review: Loved the question format, much better than some of the other secrets series books. Questions are written in a way that makes sure you understand the material and the author actually has a pretty good sense of humor. I read this book in the week before the exam and it helped me get at least an extra 30 questions right that I wouldn't have got from the other review books I read.

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Summary: rave about this book
Review: passed step 2 and now studying for step 3
If you can take one book with you, this is it.
the information is jam-packed with gems and perls. It doesn't contain details and scriptions not useful for step 2. maybe in academical sense of view it may lack considerable detals but this book is just centered to pass exams. so if your goal is to only pass the exam this book is second to none in a way it was written so strategically and tactically to get you on course from off course. Though useless as a reserch engine, it is best if your sole aim is to ace the exam.
Other resource I used I thought useful was NMS step 2 on CD. So that I could have trained to simulate answer questions in a setting of real exams.