Lange Q&A: Surgery (Lange's Q & A: Surgery) by C. Gene Cayten

Product Description


With 1000 USMLE-format surgery questions and answers, each with thorough explanations, and a bonus practice test, this resource provides an unmatched review of surgery. Students will find everything they need to ace the USMLE Step 2 and the surgery shelf exam.
Product Details
Amazon Sales Rank: #213087 in Books
Published on: 2007-05-21
Number of items: 1
Binding: Paperback
416 pages
Editorial Reviews

About the Author
C. Gene Cayten, MD., MPH is currently the Senior Associate Dean of New York Medical College for Our Lady of Mercy Medical Center and the Director of Surgery for Our Lady Mercy Medical Center.

Nanakram Agarwal, MD, MPH is Chief of the Surgical Intensive Care Unit for Our Lady of Mercy Medical Center. He is also a professor of surgery at New York Medical College and assistant professor in the Department of Community & Preventive Medicine at New York Medical College

Max Goldberg, MD, FACS, FRCSI, is Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery at Stonybrook University Hospital and Medical Center, Stonybrook, NY; and Surgical Attending at North Shore University Hospital, Manhasset, NY.
Customer Reviews

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lots of errors/poor editing in this "thoroughly updated and reviewed" 5th edition. even worse are the poor (and very brief) explanations that don't make sense and don't even address the questions. the cover touts "rationales for correct and incorrect answers", but this simply isn't true. just flip to the answers and you'll see that each explanation is incredibly short compared to other books and most of the answer choices are not mentioned.

i had a hard time figuring out which question resource to use during my surgery clerkship. both this book and pretest got mediocre/poor reviews, and there aren't any other dedicated surgery question books out there that i know of. i ended up using the 100 surgery q's from the kaplan qbook for step 2ck and the 200 surgery q's from blueprints q+a for step 2. so far, i think the blueprints questions are the most educational.

Excellent question book
I only used this and Lange Case files for my surgery shelf and got an advanced. I'm a crummy multiple choice test taker so I figure if I could use this book and get that score, most anyone could.
I still have to say that the best way to do well on the surgery shelf is to know your Internal medicine (i.e. do Lange Q&A for medicine). I even had a question on the surgery shelf that was exactly the same as one on my medicine shelf. But if you want a text that helps you understand surgery and questions you'll probably be pimped on this is the book.