Published: October 2009
344 cases give you the edge you need to ace the USMLE Step 2 CK!
This powerful casebook is packed with 344 exam-type clinical cases that teach you how to work through questions on the exam. Completedly updated based on student feedback, it includes active-recall questions and answers that reinforce key concepts.
344 high-yield cases--94 NEW!--written by students who aced the exam
Cases emphasize board-relevant diseases and concepts
Open-ended active recall questions and answers teach you to work through cases and reinformce must-know facts and concepts
Two-column format for easy self-quizzing
100+ images, diagrams, and tables complement the cases
Organized the same ways as First Aid for the USMLE Step 2 CK and First Aid Q&A for the USMLE Step 2 CK to facilitate parallel study
is Assistant Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics in the Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology at The University of Louisville, Louisville, KY. He is the founder of USMLE Rx.com, an online subscription database of USMLE review questions.
Elizabeth Eby Halvorson, MD
, Vanderbilt School of Medicine, Class of 2009, Resident, Department of Pediatrics, Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, Wake Forest, NC.
Keywords: FIRST AID CASES FOR THE USMLE SETP 2 CK, CARDIOVASCULAR, DERMATOLOGY, ENDOCRINOLOGY, EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PREVENTIVE MEDICINE, ETHICS AND LEGAL ISSUES, GASTROINTESTINAL, HEMATOLOGY/ONCOLOGY, INFECTIOUS DISEASE, MUSCULOSKELETAL AND CONNECTIVE TISSUE, NEUROLOGY, OBSTETRICS, GYNECOLOGY, PEDIATRICS, PSYCHIATRY, PULMONARY, RENAL/GENITOURINARY, SELECTED TOPICS IN EMERGENCY MEDICINE, MEDICAL STUDENTS PREPARING FOR THE USMLE STEP CK EXAM.