Kaplan Medical USMLE Step 3 Qbook (Kaplan USMLE Qbook)

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Summary: Excellent practice
Review: As a third year pediatric resident, I was worried that I was very out of touch with bread and butter medicine and used this book for practice. I passed with flying colors. The questions were almost identical to the ones on the exam in terms of content, format, style, and length. Some questions on the exam seemed to be straight out of this book. They do a really good job of explaining the answers in the back. I would recommend this book to anyone who has more than a few days to study for Step 3. I also used Crush Step 3 to prepare. But this book helped me put the high-yield facts in Crush in context and taught me how to approach the questions. Often, these exams aren't about how much you know, but how good you are at answering the questions.

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Summary: Superficial and poor questions
Review: I tried using this book and found the questions to be too easy and superficial, NMS is far superior and I think if had used this book as my sole preparatory source, I would not have passed. Save your money and go with NMS.


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Summary: Best MCQs for Step 3
Review: This is better than NMS. You will still need a nice topical review to help tie everything together and so you will not fail the CCS sections. I really like Strong Medicine step 3.