Obstetrics And Gynecology

I bought this book because it was a known fact that our attending pimped students according to the material covered in each of its chapters.However, I soon learned that Beckman's is one of those medical books that tries to incorporate every fact into its chapters, but it does so by simply stating the fact. That is, the book would mention a procedure or disease process, but would not expand on it, it would simply list the process or procedure and move on. The book also tends to cover alternative procedures almost to a tertiary level without completely expanding on the first option presented. This is useful if you want a complete index so you can claim that the book covers everything. But when you are being questioned by an attending on the pathologies or reasoning behind a procedure, it makes you look quite stupid if all you can do is rattle off a list.I understand that most medical books need to be cross-referenced with others. But I believe in this scenario, Hacker and Moore's book is MUCH better. It covers all topics presented in Beckman's but explains why you do what you would do. I recommend comparing the two books before selecting one. I bought beckmans, but I constantly reread the Beckmans chapter with the hacker and moore I found in the school library. This allowed me to make a killing when being pimped. Both books are pretty easy to read. I would, however, say hacker and moore is even easier in terms of chapter layout and topics covered.

Got this book for my OB/GYN rotation, as our preceptor recommended it and the questions on his exam came directly from the questions in the back of this book (there's like 2,700 to choose from or something). The book is very detailed, giving you percentages on the incidence of everything and then some. In my opinion (and all of my fellow students in the rotation), the book is more aimed at residents, as much of the material is not necessary for a student to grasp or memorize. The book is very outdated (there's a newer edition...don't know if that one is better, though that edition doesn't have the questions in the back). Also, there are many typos throughout the book, as well as in the questions in the book. For example, one of the chapter's set of questions in the back had 7 wrong answers out of 22 or so total questions. That is, the answer for the question did NOT agree with the information in the chapter it was coming from. So...be careful with the questions. All in all, plenty of detail (to a fault in my opinion) and too outdated to recommend. Too dense for Step 2 studying as well.

As a medical student in clinicals I found this book very helpful. The attending for my OB/Gyn rotation highly recommended it. It's an easy read and explains things well without being too wordy or detailed. It has a ton of questions at the end of the book, divided into chapters for review. I gave it 4 instead of 5 stars because I did notice that a few of the questions are incorrect. I would find the answers in the chapter to be different than those in the back. This didn't happen often, but enough to make me second-guess the accuracy of some of them. Overall a great book.

If you're going into OB/Gyne, you'll need more than just this Jr/Sr med student level book.But, if you're not, I've kept this as a reference & found it concise & well written for reading during OBG clerkship. Would recommend.

Excellet

This book had a great summary of each of the disorders. It also has some great review questions in the back!

Bought this book for my Ob/Gyn rotation, thinking it would be the best resource because it's designed around the APGO learning objectives, which the shelf exam is also supposedly based on.Strengths:- coverage of all topics you might see on the exam- generally good resource for basic intro to ob/gyn- some useful tables and graphs- lots of multiple choice questions for testing recall after readingWeaknesses:- way too many typos and factual errors. This book has obviously been through multiple revisions over the years, without careful editing. For example, they say that you should get the tetanus booster shot once btw 14-16 yo. Most of us know that you should get this booster once every 10 years. There is way too much sloppiness in this book for it to be a reliable resource.- questions are mostly pure factual recall; there is very little clinical reasoning. The shelf exam is almost entirely clinical vignettes with long stems, requiring clinical reasoning. So the book's questions are pretty much useless for preparing for the shelf.- the questions on the CD-ROM are 95% the same as the back-of-chapter questions, but the answer choices are rearranged and there are more typos and incorrect answers marked. There is no reasoning given with the correct answer choice.- the 5% of other questions are often outdated and seem to be left over from previous editions (e.g. questions on Norplant or other things that are not mentioned at all in the text).- multiple diagrams seem to be left over from previous editions, not particularly clear; most of these should be redrawn. Some of the things you'd like to see in diagrams are not there.- multiple tables have duplicate entries, or things have slipped from one column to another. Very sloppy typesetting/layout; poor design makes the book hard to read.This is an OK resource for general background reading for the shelf. For better exam prep, I would recommend Case Files, which I used and liked very much; much easier read, with much better graphs and tables, organized for learning, understanding and retention.