Master the Boards: Internal Medicine

I purchased this book 3 weeks before the actual ABIM board exam.This book serves its purpose very well which is to describe what is important and what is not as far as passing the exam is concerned.I believe that an exam's preparation can be divided into two parts. First is to learn the constants which are always going to be checked on the exam in various forms and can be predicted as well as learned in a fairly short duration of time. The second part of preparation is about the variables, and it takes a much longer duration of time to learn, assimilate and master. This book will teach you the constants well so that you can pass the exam. Do not use it to improve your medicine skills in general.Pros:– every topic has with the best initial test, most accurate test, best initial treatment and most common wrong answers. This approach cuts the chase to what you really need to know.– Tips and tricks regarding keywords to look for in the questions to quickly select the right answers– Very useful tables for quick review– a lot of space on the edges of papers to take extra notes.I loved this book. I am not a scholar or a top performer, but I know that this book allowed me to review the most important topics in the limited number of days I had before the exam so that most of the questions on the real exam appeared very familiar.

I accidentally bought this book thinking it was geared solely for the internal med shelf (NBME), but really it is geared towards ABIM exam. Still, I used this book during my IM rotation and even found that many of the 3rd year residents also used the same book (2 were chief residents). So in my case the book was invaluable to answering rounds questions, and knowing next step in managment, not so much diagnosis though. I was also was informed by my school I passed my NBME IM shelf (still waiting on my score).The other resources I used were Case Files (As I do all my other rotations) and questions.I would say this would be a great book for Internal Medicine Residency, but also it did a pretty good job with preparing me for the NBME IM shelf.

Use it as last minute review not for your entire prep . Would recommend additional source . U can use MKSAP , mayo or John Hopkins to complement .

Easy to follow, thought-provokung

Effective teaching in outline format. Includes core knowledge that will surely appear in any Int Med exam.

Well summarized topical material that highlights the essential facts one should know not only for board preparation but also as a practicing physician. Enjoyable reading.

Good book, but lacks graphs and pics.

Excellent condition

I have a read many medical textbooks but this one is unique. Conrad Fisher has the ability to summarise and explain clinical decision making using simple terms with sufficient detail to pass, for example, the MRCP (UK) Part 2 written.The key skill as a doctor is to translate knowledge from detailed medical textbooks such as Harrison’s, Kumar and Clark, Davidson or Pathologic basis of disease into daily clinical practice. Conrad Fisher’s book enables you to do this.For example compare this book to parts of a Formula 1 car.If the pre-clinical and clinical years at Medical School, including the use of the above mentioned detailed medical textbooks, enable you to increase the size and power of your engine, Conrad Fisher’s book resembles the Pirelli tyres to translate your power onto the road. Without those tyres the engine is useless. There is no point knowing about a disease if you cannot recognise, consider or diagnose it.This book focuses on understanding general medicine (internal medicine).

Useless, same exact contents of "Master the Board," just purchase that one because it has all other branches of medicine. I regret spending a penny on this one.