First Aid for the USMLE Step 3

513 Pages·2010·11.81 MB·English

by  Tao Le

USMLE Step 3
Third Edition
TAO LE, MD, MHS
Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics
Chief, Section of Allergy and Immunology
Department of Medicine
University of Louisville
VIKAS BHUSHAN, MD
Diagnostic Radiologist
HERMAN SINGH BAGGA, MD
Resident, Department of Urology
University of California, San Francisco
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DEDICATION
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experience, advice, and humor for the benefi t of students.
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To our families, friends, and loved ones, who endured and assisted
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Contents
Authors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii CHAPTER 10. Infectious Disease . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Faculty Reviewers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
Preface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ix CHAPTER 11. Musculoskeletal . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
Acknowledgments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xi
How to Contribute. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xiii CHAPTER 12. Nephrology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
CHAPTER 1. Guide to the USMLE Step 3 and
CHAPTER 13. Neurology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
Supplement: Guide to the CCS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
CHAPTER 14. Obstetrics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
CHAPTER 2. Ambulatory Medicine. . . . . . . . . . . 15
CHAPTER 15. Gynecology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275
CHAPTER 3. Cardiovascular. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
CHAPTER 16. Pediatrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289
CHAPTER 4. Emergency Medicine . . . . . . . . . . . 49
CHAPTER 17. Psychiatry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331
CHAPTER 5. Endocrinology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
CHAPTER 18. Pulmonary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357
CHAPTER 6. Ethics and Statistics. . . . . . . . . . . . 91
CHAPTER 19. High-Yield CCS Cases. . . . . . . . . 375
CHAPTER 7. Gastroenterology . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Appendix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467
CHAPTER 8. Hematology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Index. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473
About the Authors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497
CHAPTER 9. Oncology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
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AUTHORS
Clarissa Barnes, MD K. Pallav Kolli, MD
Resident, Department of Internal Medicine Imaging Editor
Johns Hopkins Hospital Resident, Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging
University of California, San Francisco
Jonathan Day, MD
Resident, Department of Internal Medicine Heidi Reetz, MD
Saint Vincent Hospital Resident, Family Medicine
Santa Rosa Family Medicine Residency
Amar Dhand, MD, DPhil
Sapna Shah, MD
Resident, Department of Neurology
Resident, Department of Internal Medicine
University of California, San Francisco
University Hospitals Case Medical Center
Catherine R. Harris, MD
Shannon Shea, MD, MPH
Resident, Department of Urology
Resident, Department of Pediatrics
University of California, San Francisco
University of California, San Francisco
Sandarsh Kancherla, MD Benjamin Silverberg, MD, MS
Fellow, Department of Gastroenterology Resident, Department of Family Medicine
St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital University of Virginia
Nilay Kavathia, MD Alex Wu, MD
Resident, Department of Internal Medicine Resident, Department of Urology
Thomas Jefferson University University of California, San Francisco
FACULTY REVIEWERS
Charles Angell, MD Gregory C. Kane, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine Professor of Medicine, Vice-Chairman, Education
Johns Hopkins University Jefferson Medical College
Rizwan Aslam, MD Armand Krikorian, MD
Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Radiology and Assistant Professor, Division of Clinical and Molecular
Biomedical Imaging Endocrinology
University of California, San Francisco Case Western Reserve University
Lowell Lo, MD
Mitchell Conn, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine
Associate Professor of Medicine, Department of Gastroenterology
University of California, San Francisco
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
Andrea Marmor, MD, MSEd
Vanja Douglas, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Neurology
University of California, San Francisco
University of California, San Francisco
Charles J. Nock, MD
Aleksandr Gorenbeyn, MD, FACEP
Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Oncology
Assistant Professor, Department of Traumatology and Emergency
University Hospitals Case Medical Center
Medicine
Maria Isabel Rodriguez, MD
University of Connecticut
Clinical Instructor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Sharad Jain, MD University of California, San Francisco
Professor, Department of Clinical Medicine
David Schneider, MD
University of California, San Francisco
Faculty, Santa Rosa Family Medicine Residency
Gregory S. Janis, MD Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Family and
Associate Director, CCU Community Medicine
St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center University of California, San Francisco
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