Appleton and Langes Review for Flex

ISBN: 9780838502211

定价: 105.00

内容简介

Introduction
Appleton & Lange s Review for FLEX is a comprehensive signed to give you practice and feedback with clinical
review resource with 1???000 FLEX-type multiple choice competence questions and PMPs??? respectively. In these
questions and 13 patient management problems (PMPs) chapters??? in addition to supplementing your clinical re-
with referenced??? paragraph-length discussions of each an- view??? you will also be practicing the technique of taking
swer. In addition??? the last 250 questions and 3 PMPs have these complex and challenging methods of examination.
been set aside as a Practice Test for self-assessment pur- The fifth chapter is the Practice Test.
poses. All of the sections in this book (except for the PMPs)
are organized in the following order:
ORGANIZATION OF THIS BOOK I. Questions
2. Answers??? explanations??? and references
3. Bibliography
This book is organized to cover sequentially each of the
4. Subspecialty list
thirteen basic and clinical science areas specified by the
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States These sections are discussed below in terms of what
(the Federation). These areas are anatomy??? physiology??? they contain and how you can use them in the most effec-
biochemistry??? microbiology??? pathology??? pharmacology??? rive manner.
and behavioral sciences (basic sciences??? 300 questions to-
tal)??? and obstetrics and gynecology??? pediatrics??? internal Questions
medicine??? surgery??? psychiatry??? and preventive medicine Each section of this book contains only multiple-choice
(clinical sciences??? 300 questions total). In addition??? the questions (or \"items???\" in testing parlance). In general???
book contains a 150-question clinical competence review about 50 percent of these are \"one best answer-single
chapter??? which is designed to assess your ability to use item\" questions??? 30 percent are \"multiple true-false
your acquired medical knowledge to solve a variety of items???\" I0 percent are \"one best answer-matching sets???\"
problems in the six clinical areas described above. The and I0 percent are \"comparison/matching set\" questions.
fourth chapter of this book consists of I0 PMPs??? which are In some cases??? a group of two or three questions may be
designed to test your abilities in a simulated clinical situ- related to a situational theme. In addition??? some questions
ation??? using the accompanying latent-image marker and have illustrative material (graphs??? x-rays??? tables) that
booklet. The last chapter is a 250-question??? 3-PMP Prac- require understanding and interpret~atiota on your part.
rice Test??? which covers all of the areas in the earlier Moreover??? questions may be of thcee~???i~: ~f ~lifficulty:
review sections. (1) rote memory question??? (2) mem0~0~ that re-
Appleton & Lange s Review for FLEX is divided into quires more unders~nding Of~-:.~e pro~:~8~bl ~3) a ques-
five chapters??? each of which is designed to maximally tion that requires ltnder~~~t: In view of
enhance your review. The first two chapters are designed the fact that the Fed@~ ~ ~~\"~ward the judg-
to enable you to identify areas of weakness by discipline ment question sad awa~~~ .~mory question???
and subspecialty in the basic sciences and clinical sci- it is the judgment:queStl~~ ~ ~ empha-
ences??? respectively. Because all of the anatomy questions size throughout this textual lye/~\" of the items are
and answers are followed by all of the physiology??? then stated in the negative. In such instan~ees??? we have printed
biochemistry??? etc.??? you can determine if you need to spend the negative word in capital letters (e.g.??? \"All of the follow-
extra time reviewing an entire area (say??? pathology) and/ ing are correct EXCEPT;\" \"Which of the following choices
or a specific subspecialty of others (say??? virology and pedi- is NOT correct;\" and qb hich of the following is LEAST
atric oncology~. The third and fourth chapters are de- correct\").