Turbo Mnemonics for the Boards, 2004: Over 400 Memory Aids to the Most Commonly Asked Clinical Material on the USMLE and Medicine Boards, Second Edition

Book by MD Bradley D Mittman

Already being hailed as The Ultimate Review for Boards & Other exams, this book was designed to help you retain better and recall faster. Whether your goal is to nail your USMLE clinical steps 2 & 3 or your MEDICINE BOARDS, or you simply want to be the star on rounds & attending pimp sessions, we guarantee Turbo Mnemonics will markedly improve your study efficiency, win you a lot more points, improve your performance on rotations and teaching rounds, and help you reach that goal a whole lot faster and with a lot less headaches!

This book was created in order to make your study life and your medicine career easier. With over 400 anagrams and other mnemonics, tips, tricks, and shortcuts, this book LITERALLY spells out what you ll have to know for the medicine components of your USMLE steps 2 & 3, and the MEDICINE BOARDS. Indeed, if you re prepping now for the USMLE, you ll be way ahead of the game when it comes time to take your medicine boards.

As you browse this book, you ll find OVER 400 PRICELESS MEMORY AIDS on all your favorite subjects organized alphabetically by the disease or condition. In addition, you ll definitely want take advantage of the APPENDIX section, which features a SUMMARY of all 400 memory aids found in the book with their page numbers to help you QUICKLY LOCATE your favorite mnemonics or just the information you need!

Of course you may simply choose to take advantage of the well-designed and thorough Index section as a final means of look-up.

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All of us remember what a lifesaver mnemonics were during our basic sciences, particularly when it came time for exams and tensions were running high. Memory aids saved us tons of time and always improved performance. But there are astonishingly few such resources available in clinical medicine, particularly when it comes to board preparation, certainly not on this magnitude. Clinical mnemonics aren t only important because they help you remember better and recall quicker! They serve two other very important roles. First, they function as TEMPLATES to help you efficiently sort out, process, and even filter through information you ve either already acquired or will acquire post-Turbo Mnemonics. In their role as functional templates, you ll also be able sift through the junk and reach correct diagnoses much more quickly and with greater ease, particularly when faced with cases on the boards or the wards. Secondly, clinical mnemonics also provide a sound FRAMEWORK on which to build your ever-growing medical database. As you acquire new info, you ll know exactly where to hang it in on your framework and you ll see exactly how it fits into the bigger picture! That may even be the biggest advantage of all.

Most all of us would agree that intelligence & performance don t necessarily jive when it comes to standardized exams. Sure, brains matter. Of course, study time matters. Perhaps the most important element, however, is WHAT you study, that is, what MENTAL TOOLS you take into the exam with you. Speaking of having the right tools for the job, we highly recommend using Turbo Mnemonics in conjunction with NAIL THE BOARDS, an equally awesome and fully-outlined review of internal medicine for board exams in approx 350 pages. FRONTRUNNERS INTERNAL MEDICINE Q&A REVIEW is the Q&A COMPANION to Nail the Boards, and features over 1200 quick, content-driven Q&A to supplement your own board review. See the last page of this book for more information on these excellent resources.