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Enrich your learning and reinforce key concepts with the companion volume to Internal Medicine Essentials for Clerkship Students 2! Newly reorganized and fully updated, MKSAP for Students 4 is designed to help medical students succeed in their clerkship rotation. This new edition offers 450 new patient-centered self-assessment questions and answers, which help define and assess mastery of the core knowledge base requisite to internal medicine education in medica… More >>
#1 by Jeremy Toffle on May 4, 2010 - 1:07 am
This book is great for extra questions to study on your interal medicine wards, but I wouldn’t make it your sole source of study.
Rating: 5 / 5
#2 by G. Potts on May 4, 2010 - 1:38 am
If you have access to the CD from someone else use it as it has all the questions on there and lets you track your progress (and do questions in a random fashion as you would see on the shelf). This question book helped me honor the IM shelf and felt the questions were relatively close to the shelf. I’d recommend this for a question book during the rotation.
Rating: 5 / 5
#3 by CAMedStudent on May 4, 2010 - 2:05 am
I used this book towards the end of my medicine clerkship to help me for the NBME medicine shelf exam. It’s more useful at the end when you just want to do questions to help you figure out what areas you need to focus on. Also it’s nice to bring with you on wards (even though it’s a thick book) because you can do a few questions when you have some time to kill. One criticism – there was an excessive amount of ECG’s in the cardiology section while there was probably only one of those on the entire shelf.
I also used Step Up to Medicine which is much more thorough and a must have for the shelf exam.
Rating: 4 / 5
#4 by Jesus Exposito-cespedes on May 4, 2010 - 3:45 am
I used MKSAP3 as well as this one and the questions are great but too few when I was reviewing. Try adding Kaplan Book Internal Medicine questions to supplement.
Rating: 5 / 5
#5 by William Mcfadden on May 4, 2010 - 6:24 am
This book is supposed to be designed to help you do well on the internal medicine shelf. It was recommended by a good majority of my senior classmates. What it really does is test how well you know the latest and greatest info on particular diseases. In other words, the impression that I got from this book is that it was trying to teach you the latest material from journal references rather than trying to teach you basic internal medicine. After finishing MKSAP 4 and MKSAP 3, I felt like I was successful in rounding up a bunch of random details about medicine. It didn’t help me understand any basic algorithmic approach to treating, nor did it help me understand how to work up a condition. In retrospect, I wish that I had never touched this book. Yeah, I learned the material in it and I did well on the questions, but it didn’t teach me what I needed for the shelf, nor did I get a really have a firm grasp on internal medicine from this book. I would have been more satisfied with another source.
Rating: 3 / 5