MKSAP For Students 4 (MKSAP for Students,Alguire)
American College of Physicians | 2008-09-30 00:00:00 | Clerkship Directors in Internal Medicine | 220 | Internal Medicine
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 medical school. Questions are designed to simulate the end of rotation and USMLE question format. Each question is aligned with content in Internal Medicine Essentials for Clerkship Students 2, and is followed by critiques and new key points. MKSAP for Students 4 has over 450 all new questions, answers, and critiques, 23 new Electrocardiogram questions, and 35 new color figure dermatology questions. MSKAP for Students 4 helps you master the knowledge you are expected to know by the end of your clerkship. The accompanying CD-ROM automatically tracks progress, assesses areas for further focus, includes a topical index, random question ordering, and integrated access to an online medical dictionary and multimedia library.
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My IM rotation is from 6am-6pm with one weekend call each week, which means there is no way I could go through step-up for my shelf exam. This however was recommended highly by my chief resident so I went through this instead. I haven't gotten back my shelf exam score yet but I would say the topics covered here was very high yield. I would highly recommend this for the IM shelf exam.
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I love this book. I went through the questions after reading relevant chapters in Step Up to Medicine - the two books are so alike in content I am convinced the MKSAP 4 questions are based on Step Up or vice versa. I think the questions are good for reinforcing basic concepts as well as much more detailed bits that I probably would have otherwise not read about. There is a good mix of diagnosis and management-focused problems and I found this particularly helpful for committing treatment algorithms to memory.
If I could do year 3 over again I would have used Step Up to Medicine and MKSAP 4 from the beginning of the year and not bothered with most other books or my school's lame study guides.
I bought MKSAP 3 as well but have only gone through a couple chapters. I like MKSAP 4 better because of the way the material is grouped - by organ system in MKSAP 4 (cardiovascular, pulmonary, renal) versus by presenting complaint or disease in MKSAP 3 (dyspnea, chest pain, CHF, DVT). I prefer not knowing what the diagnosis is before even reading the question!
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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.
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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.
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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 firm grasp on internal medicine from this book. I would have been more satisfied with another source.
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