Lange Q&A Surgery, Fifth Edition

I'm surprised of the 1-star reviews on here. I originally bought this book based on other med students' recommendations. I thought the book was excellent in preparing me for the Surgery shelf. Compared to Pretest, I thought the questions in this book was better representative of the actual shelf style type of questions. Yes, there are errors in the book, but these are extremely minor and very obvious (ie. Answer section writes choice B but actually meant A, and it was obvious because the explanation still correlates with choice A). I mainly used this for my practice questions (vs Pretest), coupled with NMS Surgery Case book, and I received a score of 1+ standard deviation above the national mean for the shelf.

This book already has it reputation. I purchased it for my exam. It contains board type surgical exams with explanations. I have the older edition which is excellent and found that there are much additions and updates on the newer edition. I advice anyone entering surgical board exam to have a copy of this excellent book.

I only used this and Lange Case files for my surgery shelf and got an advanced. I'm a crummy multiple choice test taker so I figure if I could use this book and get that score, most anyone could. I still have to say that the best way to do well on the surgery shelf is to know your Internal medicine (i.e. do Lange Q & A for medicine). I even had a question on the surgery shelf that was exactly the same as one on my medicine shelf. But if you want a text that helps you understand surgery and questions you'll probably be pimped on this is the book.