Table of Contents
Psychiatry: PreTest Self-Assessment & Review, 12th Ed.
1. Evaluation, Assessment, and Diagnosis
2. Human Behavior: Theories of Personality and Development
3. Human Behavior: Biologic and Related Sciences
4. Disorders of Childhood and Adolescence
5. Cognitive Disorders and Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry
6. Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders
7. Psychotherapies
8. Mood Disorders
9. Anxiety, Somatoform, and Dissociative Disorders
10. Personality Disorders, Human Sexuality, and Miscellaneous Syndromes
11. Substance-Related Disorders
12. Psychopharmacology and Other Somatic Therapies
13. Law and Ethics in Psychiatry
Bibliography
Index
Synopsis
The student tested-and-reviewed way to prep for the psychiatry shelf exam and the USMLE Step 2 CK
Psychiatry: PreTest Self-Assessment & Review is the perfect way to assess your knowledge of psychiatry for the USMLE Step 2 CK and shelf exams. You'll find 500 USMLE-style questions and answers that address the clerkship's core competencies along with detailed explanations of both correct and incorrect answers. All questions have been reviewed by students who recently passed the boards and completed their clerkship to ensure they match the style and difficulty level of the exam.
Doody Review Services
Reviewer: William Miles, MD(Rush University Medical Center)
Description: This small, paperback book is one of several in the Pretest Series of review books for medical students. The tenth edition was published in 2003.
Purpose: The purpose is to provide medical students and international medical graduates with a comprehensive and convenient instrument for self assessment and review of psychiatric medicine. These are certainly worthy objectives, and they are met.
Audience: According to the authors, the book is targeted at medical students and international medical graduates who are either on their core psychiatry clerkship or studying for the USMLE. First year psychiatry residents also would find this book useful as a way to review core concepts.
Features: Like all the Pretest Series books, this one is composed entirely of questions and answers divided into several sections, such as evaluation and assessment, schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders, mood disorders, and so on. Each section is composed of paragraph-style questions, with multiple-choice answers from which to choose. The correct answers are found at the end of each section. There is a full explanation of the correct answer, as well as why the other answers were incorrect. There are no illustrations or references, but there is an index.
Assessment: The Pretest Series is widely used in preparing medical students for the clerkship shelf exams and the USMLE, and this psychiatry edition is, overall, quite good. The content is thorough, the questions concise, and the answers explained well. For those students who prefer to study usingquestion-and answer type review books, this should fulfill their needs. It is nice to see an updated edition of this ever popular review book.
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Biography
Debra L. Klamen, MD, MPHE is Associate Dean of Education and Curriculum in the Department of Psychiatry at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine in Springfield, Illinois.
Philip Pan, MD is on the faculty in the Department of Psychiatry at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine in Springfield, Illinois.
From the Publisher
The student tested-and-reviewed way to prep for the psychiatry shelf exam and the USMLE Step 2 CK
Psychiatry: PreTest Self-Assessment & Review is the perfect way to assess your knowledge of psychiatry for the USMLE Step 2 CK and shelf exams. You'll find 500 USMLE-style questions and answers that address the clerkship's core competencies along with detailed explanations of both correct and incorrect answers. All questions have been reviewed by students who recently passed the boards and completed their clerkship to ensure they match the style and difficulty level of the exam.
Doody Review Services
Reviewer: William Miles, MD(Rush University Medical Center)
Description: This small, paperback book is one of several in the Pretest Series of review books for medical students. The tenth edition was published in 2003.
Purpose: The purpose is to provide medical students and international medical graduates with a comprehensive and convenient instrument for self assessment and review of psychiatric medicine. These are certainly worthy objectives, and they are met.
Audience: According to the authors, the book is targeted at medical students and international medical graduates who are either on their core psychiatry clerkship or studying for the USMLE. First year psychiatry residents also would find this book useful as a way to review core concepts.
Features: Like all the Pretest Series books, this one is composed entirely of questions and answers divided into several sections, such as evaluation and assessment, schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders, mood disorders, and so on. Each section is composed of paragraph-style questions, with multiple-choice answers from which to choose. The correct answers are found at the end of each section. There is a full explanation of the correct answer, as well as why the other answers were incorrect. There are no illustrations or references, but there is an index.
Assessment: The Pretest Series is widely used in preparing medical students for the clerkship shelf exams and the USMLE, and this psychiatry edition is, overall, quite good. The content is thorough, the questions concise, and the answers explained well. For those students who prefer to study usingquestion-and answer type review books, this should fulfill their needs. It is nice to see an updated edition of this ever popular review book.
