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Summary: Quick for on-the-wards reference and test review
Review: "Blueprints" is a terrific book for medical student use during a basic or advanced rotation in pediatrics, written by Pediatric residents at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Although it's certainly not exhaustive, the book provides a brief (usually 2-3 pages) discussion of a disease, its presentation, the differential diagnosis, and its treatment. The text is often in easy-to-skim bullet format, with illustrative tables/x-rays accompanying it. I read this book as I went through my rotation, and then when the test came along, it was a nice one-day review--I'm saving it for the USMLE step 2!
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Summary: BLUEPRINTS SERIES - GREAT
Review: As with most of the blueprints series for clinical rotations, the book for Peds is an excellent source to use early on in the rotation to pump knowledge into your brain. Use this text to weave the fabric connecting the entire rotation. Use UpToDate or big, fat peds texts (Nelsons, Rudolphs) to learn specifics about your patients. And finally use a question book (Appleton and Lange, for example) to prepare for the shelf.
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Summary: Blueprints is Basic
Review: Blueprints in Pediatrics is definitely a quick read. Good for preparing brief presentations and boning up on important topics. However, it is NOT a good prep for the boards. Much too basic. However, I recommend carrying it around for reading when you have breaks throughout the day while on your Pediatrics rotation.
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Summary: Excellent for the shelf exam!
Review: I just took the Pediatrics shelf exam having studied this book thoroughly, and I thought it was superb. The authors did an excellent job selecting high-yield topics and covering them without extraneous detail. However, you really do have to know everything in the book, basically everything that made it into this book is pretty critical.I also found it handy to add any other facts I learned over the course of the rotation into the margins of the book. It leaves you with a reasonably thorough study guide. Some people insist on reading Nelson's or another mega-text, but I can't imagine anyone remembering 900 (dense) pages with only three weeks or so of studying. I'd go with blueprints any day.
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Summary: Excellent for the shelf exam!
Review: I just took the Pediatrics shelf exam having studied this book thoroughly, and I thought it was superb. The authors did an excellent job selecting high-yield topics and covering them without extraneous detail. However, you really do have to know everything in the book, basically everything that made it into this book is pretty critical. I also found it handy to add any other facts I learned over the course of the rotation into the margins of the book. It leaves you with a reasonably thorough study guide. Some people insist on reading Nelson's or another mega-text, but I can't imagine anyone remembering 900 (dense) pages with only three weeks or so of studying. I'd go with blueprints any day.
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Summary: Not recomendable for USMLE preparation
Review: I think this book is good for a quick review during the Pediatric rotation, but not advisable for USMLE preparation. While this book covers the important diseases, the points that it emphasizes does not reflect the content of the exam. Even if you have learned everything this book presents, you still cannot answer many exam questions in the area. On the other hand, it does give you the big picture, so it would be good for a quick general review.
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Summary: good concise resource
Review: Provides a handy and concise resource of information on almost everything related to pediatrics. Great for 3rd year students, like me. Easier to handle than Lange peds book and much more brief.
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Summary: good concise resource
Review: This book helped me score well on the Step 2 exam; I did particularly well on the peds section and I'm not going into that specialty! The book has too much detail in some chapters, but overall it's an excellent review. It goes well with the other blueprints books, particularly medicine and surgery. Ironically, this book helped me understand many adult diseases too! Well worth a buy.
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Summary: Quite good review for Step 2, and excellent for the wards.
Review: This book helped me score well on the Step 2 exam; I did particularly well on the peds section and I'm not going into that specialty! The book has too much detail in some chapters, but overall it's an excellent review. It goes well with the other blueprints books, particularly medicine and surgery. Ironically, this book helped me understand many adult diseases too! Well worth a buy.
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Summary: The ONLY book to buy for step 2 peds
Review: this is THE pediatrics book to buy if you are preparing for the step 2. i found the questions asked on the step 2 exam were not as demnading as one may contemplate upon reading this book. Its great if you have the time..(the first reading takes a while)..and some tables (eg baby's milestones table) are very long and boring, sometimes even so detailed that they seem silly for a review book. I had no problems with any pediatrics questions after i read this book.....i got a cool score on the step 2. the other fabulous BluePrints book is the OBG one. DOnt even bother buying any others....
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