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Frontrunners' Internal Medicine Board Review Syllabus 2008: Core Review for the ABIM Certification & Recertification Exams!
Frontrunners' Internal Medicine Board Review Syllabus 2008 Core Review for the ABIM Certification Recertification Exams Author:Bradley D Mittman, MD BOOK DESCRIPTION:This review is aimed at practicing internists and residents of INTERNAL MEDICINE who have surely been searching for a concise, outlined, and one-of-a-kind review of internal medicine in all of its subspecialties for the INTERNAL MEDICINE CERTIFICATION AND RECERTIFICATION EXAMS administered through the American Boar... more »d of Internal Medicine. This book is concise, thorough, and fully-outlined, so you will clearly see the relationships between the concepts you'll have to know. It also features tons of great MNEMONICS you'll thank your lucky stars for. Speaking of stars, we know you'll appreciate our ample use of formatting, especially the use of *** STARRED ITEMS *** to help call attention to particularly important material. You should know, then,! that this book is an excellent companion to the Frontrunners' Internal Medicine Q&A REVIEW: Syllabus Companion for Board Review, which features over 1300 Q&A to prepare you for battle. We run promotions throughout the year, where you can actually get the Q&A book half-off with your Frontrunners' Syllabus Core Review when you call directly at:866-MDBOARDS (866-632-6273) or 866-IMREVIEW (866-467-3843). Equally important, we offer a number of packages / deals featuring all our T.O.P. (Take Out Package) board review books (includes these: Syllabus Core Review, 1300 Q&A book, Mnemonics book, and HIV and Blood Gas booklets for the boards--which are ALL of our printed board review materials in the curriculum), as well as our even more popular Audio Visuals CD packages for the Boards. Make sure you know all of our latest offerings and promotions. Call to find out about our various packages and ways to save OR for the most recent brochure featuring all of our offerings. We can even email it to you within minutes for your convenience or send it via snail mail. Currently, all AudioVisual packages automatically include all the TOP books (Syllabus Core Review, Q&A, Memory Aids, HIV and! ABGs for the Boards), and represent huge savings when you order directly. They're also ideal if you just can't make it out to our Weekend Marathon Reviews in California each August. If you're a mnemonics fan (and who isn't?), or you love the ones here, then you'll definitely want to check out TURBO MNEMONICS FOR THE BOARDS! : Over 400 MEMORY AIDS to the Most Commonly Asked CLINICAL Material! It features 100s of mnemonics that, we promise, will make your life a whole lot easier. At the same time these resources are outstanding study aids for medical students, residents, internists, and other health care professionals who simply want the best no-nonsense review of internal medicine. The course has been widely and enthusiastically received for its unconventional, no-nonsense approach to the review of internal medicine. Unfortunately, thousands of physicians, wanting to be board-certified, are simply unable to attend a formal board review course due to! time or geographic constraints. For those physicians especially this book will be a welcome review. All major subsections of the exam have been represented with each section bearing its own chapter. Aren't you tired of reading and rereading (or even falling asleep!) amid long-winded paragraphs from standard textbooks that never make it clear what's important to know for the exam? So were we, and that's how this syllabus core review came into being. This book is completely outlined, so that the relationship between concepts is crystal clear--no more guessing! You'll also find tons of key mnemonics you'll definitely be using on your exam, along with contributive formatting through the use of bolds, underlining, italics, boxed-in points, and of course, the *** STARRED ITEMS *** to help call your attention to particularly important material, an outstanding way to capitalize on those last few hours before your exam. A thorough and realistically designed Index section makes those look-ups, whether throughout your studies or just before! your boards, a cinch! Having said all this, we also realize that there are individuals who have, over the years, grown weary of tedious self-study and who want to take advantage of a sit-down, "feed-me" style of board review, with all the same core material, slides, cases, and more, even if the syllabus core review can come to them. For this reason we continue to offer our formal / sit-down board review course each year. This is an intensive, 18-hour, HIGH-YIELD-ITEMS-ONLY WEEKEND MARATHON REVIEW, offered each year in early August--ideal for most physicians who can't break away during the week. For upcoming dates or to register for any of these WEEKEND MARATHON REVIEWS, or to order 1) TURBO MNEMONICS FOR THE BOARDS, featuring > 400 anagrams and other mnemonics to markedly improve the efficiency of your board review studying; or 2) the Q&A REVIEW, featuring over 1300 realistic Q&A, see the "Quick Order Form" at the very end of this book or just call 866-MDBOARDs (866-632-6273) NOW to order or find out more. Why make your studying any harder than it actually has to be? If you can't make that weekend, the Audio CD Syllabus & Slide Shows for the Boards can be shipped out.You get the whole weekend, only without the added expense of hotel + airfair + tuition.We're confident that you'll find this an outstanding resource for your upcoming board exam (as well as your day-to-day practice of Internal Medicine). Our greatest hope, however, is that we've shown you an easier way to passing your boards! With best wishes for you, Bradley D. Mittman, MD
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ADDITIONAL HELPFUL HINTS FROM THE PUBLISHER: 1.HELPFUL TIPfrom FRONTRUNNERS BOARD REVIEW: Try to get thru the STARRED ITEMS several times before the exam. Those reflect the most commonly asked. Our 2008 Internal Medicine Q&A Review was designed as the Q&A Companion to this Syllabus. Syllabus Core Review and Q&A books have been completely updated, fully revised and reflect the latest on the boards. As the Publisher, we also offer deep discounts thru packages that incorporate these books along with other critical study aids and the Audio CD Syllabus and Slide Shows, straight out of our Weekend Marathon Review. 3. If you can't make it out, think about having the course shipped out to you. Call toll-free 866-MDBOARDS or 866-IMREVIEW and ask about our AV packages, latest promotions, and how you can save. These materials are designed expressly for you to pass the boards. They are not meant to be all-encompassing reviews of medicine. They are only for you to pass your ABIM. Call now for more information on our upcoming reviews and offerings, or just call for a brochure containing all of our packages and ways to save on the Audio CD Syllabus (17 Audio CDs); Slide Shows CD (covering 800 images you'll have to know for the boards: Heme/Onc, Ophtho, Derm, EKG, & all Radiology for the ABIM exam); books; and tuition. 4. You can also visit, and even order from, our WEBSITE: GOFRONTRUNNERS dot com for a nice summary of all of our latest offerings, packages, and deals. And check out the abundant free samples!
INTERVIEW WITH THE AUTHOR:In a recent INTERVIEW, Dr Mittman was asked about his philosophies on board review and how he feels Frontrunners has changed the field of medical board review for the INTERNAL MEDICINE BOARDS. He listed his philosophies this way: "Our slogan `FRONTRUNNERS--When all you wanna know is what you GOTTA know!' really tells it all." He went on to say, "Frontrunners is all about respect--respect for the physician's time and intelligence." Gone are the days of "the 800 pound gorilla", better known, from this day forth, as "the 800 page gorilla", meant to signify books that are just so big and cumbersome that they need review books FOR their review books! Larger books have fallen by the wayside, but have served their purpose well as support legs on drafting tables and heavy weights for dumbbells, pardon the pun." "In truth, the students themselves, we've found, are usually incredibly bright and highly motivated--they're just looking for SOMEONE to take the time to say, "We've done the research already for you and know the questions and the answers to the last 10 years of exams. Here it is. Just know it!" Today's student is seeking a more MODERN, stream-lined approach to board review. And she certainly doesn't want her intelligence insulted. We've found that if you treat a doctor like a monkey, he regresses to a monkey. If you treat him like a genius, he will become the genius and his board scores will reflect accordingly." Dr Mittman went on to say that, in the end, students just want to know what they GOTTA know. They want to know what's been on the exam lately. They don't just want an "internal medicine update". "There are luxury courses for that", Dr Mittman went on to say. "We've created all of our board review products...for the Internal Medicine Boards with the following criteria in mind: "What would I want in a review book?" The answer inevitably is what every busy physician seeks: 1) something CONCISE! ; 2) something that reflects RECENT & ACTUAL exam content; 3) something that is thorough, where you don't have to juggle 3 books at once; 4) something that does not insult his intelligence; and 5) something that offers memory aids. This recipe has proven highly successful for Frontrunners and, of course, its students' unparalleled pass rates.« less