Psychiatry for the Boards

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Summary: Still one of the best
Review: A book designed to help readers, not to show off the authors, this is still one of the most useful quick review book. Psychosocial theory and neurology are very clearly explained and very easy to read. A few new psychotropic medicines are, understandably, not included. However, the bioscience is fairly comprehensive and updated.

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Summary: Strongly recommended!
Review: I am in the process of studying for Part I of the Psychiatry Boards and bought this book. I was particularly interested in boning up on Neurology. Turns out that the biggest chapter of this book (Chapter 14) is neurology. It also includes an appropriately measured section on each topic in Psychiatry. All of the questions have been appropriately challenging, the answers are appropriately explanatory, and overall the book has been very helpful in assessing my own areas of strength and weakness, and provided a very good spectrum of knowledge. I strongly recommend it.

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Summary: Highly over rated, look else where to pass boards
Review: I just passed Part I, and found this book really helped. The neuroscience and psychopharmacology chapters are particularly good.

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Summary: Easy yet comprehensive, a very good book for the Board.
Review: It even fits my lab coat.

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Summary: Practically useful for Part I!
Review: Succinct and thoughtfully designed with the information really useful for the study. A great book!

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Summary: Still a great book to refresh my knowledge
Review: This book helped me pass the board. Now that it sits on my bookshelf, still refreshing my knowledge periodically. I really liked the format and the style of clearlly spelling out complicated concepts. True, it is not a comprehensive textbook, but it is really all that a busy clinician needs.

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Summary: Valuable tool for the boards and PRITE
Review: This is not a comprehensive review book, but a brief, high-yield review guide that focuses on the tricky topics they like to test on the PRITE and Part I of the psychiatry boards. The neuro section is also very useful. The material in the book seems to be based on old PRITE questions, but you can use the topics they cover to review other similar material for these topics in other sources. The questions are useful and appropriate as well, with thorough explanations. Again, the book is brief and not comprehensive, but is a valuable study tool. Incidentally, I was surprised after taking Part I of the Boards how truly similar to the PRITE it was.