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1. Sarah K. Milliron July 4th, 2010 10:35 pm

   Review by Sarah K. Milliron for Pharmacology : PreTest- Self-Assessment and Review, Twelfth Edition
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   This book contains several hundred pharmacology questions organized by topic. So, if you just want to review your knowledge of antineoplastics, you can do so with this book. This alone makes it much better than the various QBanks that are available. After each group of questions there are many pages devoted to the answers. All of the correct and incorrect answers are explained in detail.

   If you are preparing for pharm I highly recommend this book to test yourself on what you are learning. It helps you find your weak points and enables you to crush them. It’s a smallish book so you can throw it in your bag to test yourself whenever you have free time.

   The biggest downside to this book is that I didn’t get it last year and that there is no online access via student consult or something similar.

   Highly recommend.

2. wifeandmedstudent July 4th, 2010 10:50 pm

   Review by wifeandmedstudent for Pharmacology : PreTest- Self-Assessment and Review, Twelfth Edition
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   I haven’t taken USMLE yet; I just use this book to study for my school exams. It is a great way to take your understanding of the material a step higher.

3. James Min July 4th, 2010 11:20 pm

   Review by James Min for Pharmacology : PreTest- Self-Assessment and Review, Twelfth Edition
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   Good explanations, good questions…..explains the logic behind many of the correct answers and incorrect answers. I’ve learned a lot from using this book so far in cardiovascular section. However, a downside is that the if you haven’t finished almost the entire course of pharmacology you’ll be doing questions not knowing if you’ve learned the concept of the question until you’ve read it and the choices since each chapter addresses 4-10 different types of drugs. So, for an example a chapter called “central nervous system” has antidepressants, sedatives, opioids etc….. so it’s a good book to do a comprehensive check after learning all the drugs in each chapter. Or you can simply skip the questions you haven’t learned. However, if you are a med student and time is a premium, spending time to read the questions and realizing you haven’t learned it can be time consuming. Another huge problem is that some topics just aren’t very thoroughly covered. For an instance there are very very few virus related questions, respiratory, renal and GI questions (I really mean very few…about 20 for each of those topics).

4. Textbook Hawk July 5th, 2010 12:13 am

   Review by Textbook Hawk for Pharmacology : PreTest- Self-Assessment and Review, Twelfth Edition
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   This book has very good questions that cover everything. There were SEVERAL questions on my exams that came STRAIGHT from this book!

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