Rypins' Questions & Answers for Basic Sciences Review

Rating:
Summary: Good as a quick refresher
Review: I used this book as a quick revision. To tell you the truth, I don't think the questions represent the USMLE type, but rather they can be used as a quick refresher for the basic facts.

Many of the questions are VERY easy, which give you sometimes false reassurance that you'll pass any exam without studying!

Unfortunately, this book has many questions with the options like (All of the above) or (None of the above), which are not used in the USMLE-type questions.

The number options in each question is 4 i.e. a, b, c, and d.

There are many questions without proper explanation.

There are few questions with diagrams or pictures.

I think the questions can also be used in a "quiz" in a medical curriculum (if there is such a quiz).

Chapters include:
Medical Qualifying Exams, Anatomy, Physiology, Biochemistry, General microbiology and immunology, Pathology, Pharmacology, Public health and community medicine, and Behavioral sciences.

This book comes in 233 pages, published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Publishers; 3rd edition (1997).