* Ideal study guide for the anesthesia oral exams * Unique and honest approach to braving the oral exams * Practice exams use the same format as the real exams: clinical scenes are presented, followed by preop, intraop, and postop questions
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0
one of the books you will need:
read this book for HOW to answer the questions then read yao and artusio's book for what questions are on the exam (talking oral boards here). make sure you do some practice oral exams. the testers are fair but they play by their own rules and if you do not know the rules you have no chance of passing. look at it this way - could you win at poker if you did not know the rules of poker? the exam is not a real test of your real world decision making because that would be impractical - it would then have to be... more info
An Excellent Start !:
I WAY over-studied for the Orals (passed Sept 2005). This book was almost the exact format I had in my 2 exams. Don't be fooled by the simplistic approach they offer, it really was how the test went. "Would you give blood to this patient ?" "Yes, I would" "Why", etc.
NOT- Whats the MAC of enflurane in this Patient, and other minutia that some of the board review courses push. I also STUDIED "Clinical Cases In Anesthesiology" by Reed-Fantastic!-not as over-detailed as Yao,... more info