NMS Medicine

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Summary: Not as other books of NMS series!
Review: After reading NMS surgery , i really trusted NMS series as review book for boards and end of clinical rotation exam. During my pediatrics rotaion i bought NMS pediatrics and start to notice the differences between the books of this series. But when i read NMS Medicine, i felt like reading newspaper about medicine! it is very boring and dry. It is not usfull (at all!!) for your medicine rotation since it doesn't give you management plan. The heamatolgy and neurology chapters are the worse, but i should say that it contains good respiratory diseases chapter. At the beginning of each chapter, there is introduction about history taking and clinical examination, which i used to skip when i satart to read any chapter! because it is wasting of time, it does not inculde the important points. For board review i suggest you to search for another book!

What i understand after i read this book is that the author is very talkative and boring!!

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Summary: Too much information, no prioritization
Review: As any medical student who is gettting their tuition's worth knows, half of the battle (if not most of it) is knowing what the best first-step is in approaching a patient's problem. This NMS book provides list after list of information about just about every topic in internal medicine, but does little to clarify what information is most appropriate. For example, in approaching a patient with an apparent GI ulcer, the book lists out all the diagnostic options without prioritizing them. Knowing what the best first-step is (or best next-step, as the case may be) is the key to providing rationale medical care - and to answering shelf exam questions. This book provides way too much info without much guidance as to how to use it. Not good for medical students in need of experience-based guidance. The cardiology section is good, however, (each chapter has a different author) so consider borrowing a friend's copy to cover that chapter if possible.

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Summary: Excellent for third year clinical then follow up for USMLE 2
Review: I found this book a valuable tool for my core and electives in Medicine. Once prepareing for the USMLE step 2 it was easy to read the book for the second and somtimes in certain sections a third time. I found it valuable and am now purchasing a copy for my girlfriend who is entering her third year as well.

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Summary: #1 Med Text
Review: I love this book. I used it in my second year for pathophys and used it again during third year. The book is very concise and easy to read. I went throught his book about a total of four times leading up to my exam and aced it. THe earlier you start using it, 2nd year, the better off you'll be.

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Summary: Excellent for cardilogy reveiw
Review: If you want to do well in USMLE step 2/step3 the cardiology section of this book is your best bet,as it x-rays the very silient points you need to answer the exam test. This book is excellent overall, but may be boring to go through. Read the cardiology section and you will love yourself for taking this advise and buying the book.

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Summary: A book with a peculiar style
Review: NMS Medicine is a book which has its own peculiar style that is a reflection of some of the other NMS books as well. The students have tried to master this book over the past few years because it is concise and has alot of MCQ's in the USMLE format.But now it has become very much evident that the book is not very helpful for USMLE because of unnecessary emphasis on low yield subjects and missing out on some of the high yeild material ,moreover many students find it very difficult to memorize the material presented in the book because of the one two three format which breaks the continuity of the text.