Step-Up to Medicine (Step-Up Series)

Step-Up to Medicine is your lifeline for the clinical years of medical school. This book was originally written by third-year medical students searching for the perfect review book—not finding it on the market, they wrote it themselves! Now in its third edition, Step-Up to Medicine boils down the full scope of tested pathology in a single ingenious tool.

Each element is tailored for immediate content absorption, and an all-new, full-color interior differentiate elements for even faster, more efficient review. And, Step-Up to Medicine, third edition provides two types of self-assessment—the kinds of questions you will ask yourself as a clinician plus USMLE-style practice questions. This review book gives you just the Step-Up to the medicine clerkship, accompanying shelf exams, and USMLE Step 2 that you need!

NEW Features for this blockbuster edition:

• Full-color, updated interior design brings the content to you in a rousing, memorable style.
• Full-color, updated art program illustrates concepts when a picture says it best—plenty of clinical images also supplement topics.
• New content on evidence-based medicine keeps you current and informed to guide your clinical decision making.
• Expanded content on drug dosing is added where relevant.

CLASSIC Features students swear by:
• Complete coverage of high-yield medical topics ensures you are test ready
• Clinical Pearls boxes help you “file away” clinical medicine connections for handy retrieval at test time
• Quick Hits glimmering in the margins highlight highly testable material—just see how the sparks fly at test time

BONUS Material and study resources:
• eBook with the fully searchable text is available via thePoint .
• NEW 300 USMLE-style questions provide another means of self-assessment and practice for those exams
• NEW Audio clips of breath and heart sounds also available on thePoint