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USMLE Step 2 Secrets

  • 6th Edition - October 15, 2021
  • Latest edition
  • Author: Theodore X. O'Connell
  • Language: English

Succinct, easy to read, engaging, and highly effective—the highly regarded Secrets Series® provides students and practitioners in all areas of health care with focused, enga… Read more

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Description

Succinct, easy to read, engaging, and highly effective—the highly regarded Secrets Series® provides students and practitioners in all areas of health care with focused, engaging resources for quick reference and exam review. Written by prolific author Dr. Theodore X. O’Connell, USMLE Step 2 Secrets, 6th Edition, offers practical, up-to-date coverage of the full range of topics on this high-stakes exam. This bestselling resource features the Secrets’ popular question-and-answer format that prepares you for the broad-based diagnosis, treatment, and management questions you’ll face on the vignette-style USMLE exam.

Key features

  • Completely revised and updated, now with additional content to reflect high-yield content on the USMLE Step 2.

  • Coverage includes essential questions and answers on the key conditions you will be expected to recognize, all specialty and subspecialty topics, and necessary clinical concepts.

  • New full-color images, including more dermatology photos, plus numerous figures, tables, and summary boxes throughout.

  • Top 100 Secrets, tips, and memory aids offer a fast overview of the secrets you must know for success in practice and on exams.

  • Review board composed of students and residents who performed highly on USMLE Step 2 and have experience with USMLE-style question development.

  • Portable size makes it easy to carry with you for quick reference or review anywhere, anytime.

  • Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.

Readership

Medical Students, Osteopathic Students

Table of contents

100 Top Secrets

1 Acid-Base and Electrolytes

2 Alcohol

3 Biostatistics

4 Cardiology

5 Cholesterol

6 Dermatology

7 Diabetes Mellitus

8 Ear, Nose, and Throat Surgery

9 Emergency Medicine

10 Endocrinology

11 Ethics

12 Gastroenterology

13 General Surgery

14 Genetics

15 Geriatrics

16 Gynecology

17 Hematology

18 Hypertension

19 Immunology

20 Infectious Diseases

21 Laboratory Medicine

22 Nephrology

23 Neurology

24 Neurosurgery

25 Obstetrics

26 Oncology

27 Ophthalmology

28 Orthopedic Surgery

29 Pediatrics

30 Pharmacology

31 Preventive Medicine

32 Psychiatry

33 Pulmonology

34 Radiology

35 Rheumatology

36 Shock

37 Smoking

38 Urology

39 Vascular Surgery

40 Vitamins and Minerals

Product details

  • Edition: 6
  • Latest edition
  • Published: November 17, 2021
  • Language: English

About the author

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Theodore X. O'Connell

Dr. Ted O'Connell is a family physician, educator, author, innovator, and speaker. He served as the founding director of Kaiser Permanente’s Napa-Solano family medicine residency program and serves as a clinical professor for UC San Francisco, UC Davis, and Drexel University’s schools of medicine. He also founded Kaiser’s community medicine and global health fellowship. has authored or edited over a dozen textbooks, written numerous textbook chapters and peer-reviewed journal articles. Among his most notable are USMLE Step 2 Secrets, USMLE Step 3 Secrets, Crush Step 1, and the Instant Workups series of books. He is the Editor-In-Chief for Elsevier’s Clinical Key Meded education platform.
Affiliations and expertise
Founding Director, Family Medicine, Kaiser Permanente Napa-Solano, Napa; Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Community and Family Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine, San Francisco, California, USA