Rating: 
Summary: Excellent for STEP 2
Review: This book and the whole collection of blueprints are the best sources for the USMLE step 2, they are a killing combination with Crush the boards, they are easy-to-read and they cover the most high yield stuff, also you got to use a good source of questions and practice a LOT, this is the secret to acing the USMLE.If you want to practice clinical vignettes, the Underground clinical vignettes are great . I got an amazing score in the step 2 thank to these books. Good luck !
Rating: 
Summary: Excellent review for wards and Step 2
Review: This book helped me rock Step 2. It may be inappropriate for Step 3, but for Step 2 it's very good. If you want concise review of relevant, high-yield topics in internal medicine, look no further. Helps for 3rd year rotations too.
Rating:
Summary: Excellent review for wards and Step 2
Review: This book helped me rock Step 2. It may be inappropriate for Step 3, but for Step 2 it's very good. If you want concise review of relevant, high-yield topics in internal medicine, look no further. Helps for 3rd year rotations too.
Rating:
Summary: Good as a companion to 2nd year coursework
Review: This book serves as a good introduction to medicine and diagnostics of the diseases covered in second year. Since the chapters are organ-based, the book overlapped well with my school's curriculum. It is best used in second year because each chapter covers the diseases that you will be covering in class plus the diagnostic tools that are used to identify the diseases. (For example AST and ALT ratio values and alcoholic hepatitis). Highly recommended!
Rating: 
Summary: Not bad, but not the final word, either
Review: This is a decent book for an introduction to the wards, but is certainly not the be all and end all for step 2. It should be targeted much more for second year students getting their first exposure to bedside medicine, and presents a nice and digestible look at approaches to various common conditions.Use it for what it is and don't expect it to save your life, either on the wards or the USMLE, and it'll do just fine by you. Not bad, but again, not complete enough or in depth enough to make it a must-have resource.
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