Physiology: Pretest Self-Assesment & Review

I used this book extensively (basically I did all of the questions) to prepare for my class exams and for the shelf exam. I found it extremely useful, especially when I could do the questions with friends. The questions are challenging and integrative (ie: cell physiology questions had cardio stuff in them) and are framed in the, "54 year old male complains of..." type of format, which is great practice. The only reason it's not a 5-star is that there are lots of mistakes in here. Mistakes ranging from things as simple as wrong answers (ie: answer is "e" but the explanation clearly says "a" is the answer) to utterly incoherent explanations. I would say this happened about once every 15 questions or so. This is also why it's great for group studying because you can go over difficult concepts and also try to catch errors. Haven't used the 12th edition but my friend had the 10th and the differences from that and the 11th were huge.

I used this book to prep for a physio miniboard exam (NBME subject exam). Very helpful for review and practice. The High Yield chapter was okay for review, but really not as helpful as the High Yield chapters in other Pretest books. Watch out for mistakes though. Many mistakes in gastro (i think... it was in one of the chapters, anyway). Start early so you have time to look up things that don't quite look right.

This is a great resource for Shelf Exam prep....my physio class didn't do an adequate job of preparing me for the shelf (the first one I took), but Pre-Test helped me get a very good score.