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Swanson's Family Medicine Review |  | Authors: Alfred F. Tallia MD MPH FAAFP, Joseph E. Scherger MD MPH, Nancy Dickey MD
Publisher: Mosby
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ISBN: 0323055540
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 Not to be compared to Swanson 5th Edition! 2 New Editors that totally updated the book! February 25, 2009
Pre Certified PGY 3 (New York, NY)
21 out of 21 found this review helpful
I am currently studying for my certification in Family Medicine. I started off with the Swanson 5th Edition while waiting for the 6th Edition to be released. This 6th Ed. blows the 5th Edition out of the water! There are so many great things to say about this edition that I IMMEDIATELY stopped reading the 5th Ed. Some things about the 6th Ed:
*Pertinent clinical cases, relevant EVIDENCE BASED material, current and reliable sources, easy to read format and explanations:
The cases have sources from 2001 to 2006, most of them around 2003-2004. The information is so new that I am able to read from my collection of AAFP articles (2004-2008) when I need more information, and they are cited in the Suggested Reading sections. USPSTF guidelines are current, as well as current CDC guidelines. Other sources cited are mostly from Harrison, Nelson, USPSTF, New England Journal, Lancet, and other well cited authorities.
*Sections that focus on Palliative Care, Addiction Medicine, Geriatrics, Urgent Care, and the random things you get tested on but can't find anywhere to study them from.
*I am studying by using the ITE 2006-2008 and the topics are all there. Very little waste in this Edition.
*Errors: I have gone through and cross referenced other sources, and the errors of the 5th Edition are not in this edition. The only thing you will find is that the answers to the letter options (in less than 10 of the 2200 questions) would be a typo. So if you answered B, the answer would say that D is the option, but the prose would explain why B is correct. Easy to figure out even if you don't know what the right answer is since it will explain the right answer anyway.
Overall I HIGHLY recommend this book for the ITE and the Certification exam! It's a great source for review, and the suggested readings at the end of every chapter will give you more than you need to know about the topic.
Swanson's faminly medicine review is great! March 28, 2009
Ryan M. Kim
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
A lot of well written questions that helped a lot in the family medicine boards.
Board Review, Family Medicine, Life-Cycle approach, February 5, 2009
Gary E. Eddey (Morristown New Jersey)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This new edition is easy to read and is an easy reference for clinical cases as it promotes the underpinnings of the field of Family Medicine. A new section on the importance of the family in Family Medicine is superb and should be mandatory reading for all those who care for children and their families. The review book is organized around cases involving clinical conditions that involve every aspect of caring for patients of all ages. This book can serve as an excellent board review course in that it deals with contemporary clinical issues around the life-cylce perspective as well as being a great content review of clinical medicine.
Excellent review, even if you are not a family doctor October 9, 2009
Pinetree (MI)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I felt the need to review general medicine, and this book gives you a good dose of it. What I like is the frequent use of tradename of drugs in conjunction with generic names. I am tired of going to cme courses where lectors are forbidden to use tradenames. Then you wonder what drugs are your patients using. In real life, you have less than 10 minutes to see a patient, and not enough time to look up every drug you run across. So you can save yourself alot of time by only reading cme's that has both generic and tradenames.
I am about 1/3 of the way through the book. It is quite current, brief and to the point. The important points are hit 2 3 or 4 times. The details of the cases are discussed well, often important points are repeated 2 or more times. Yes, there are editorial typos, but you can catch it by reading the discussion (swapping choice a for e, etc).
I am not a family doctor, but do enough volunteering that I need to keep updated in family practice. I would strongly recommend this book for physicians of all specialties to keep current with changes in medicine - and be aware of the drugs that your patients are using. I am loving this CME activity - much better than the years of medical school and the dreaded internship.
As for paying $600 for 89 credits of cme - that is a bunch of poop. One can get tonnes of cme's on medscape for free.
Awesome review June 28, 2009
N. C. Ramos (Miami Beach, FL United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Excellent review in my case preparing for USMLE step 2. Very organized and case-oriented material. I haven't finished all of it, but what I have read make me have better medical insight.
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