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(More customer reviews)Background: I'm a general surgery resident who has taken the ABSITE four times.
After going through the Johns Hopkins, Schwartz, and Rush ABSITE reviews before, I would say this book is the best. The questions are reasonable with well explained answers. The chapters cover a variety of subjects. Many are based on clinical scenarios or no-BS quick fire questions on anatomy / physiology.
This book isn't perfect. There are some EXCEPT questions (i.e. all these are true regarding popliteal artery aneurysms EXCEPT...) which us a format that doesn't appear on standardized tests. There's a dearth of the dreaded Basic Science questions; maybe that's why I 'enjoyed' this book more than others. Statistics and Legal/Ethical questions are absent. There are no chapters specifically dealing with gynecology, urology, or ortho. On the real thing, I encountered one version with a LOT of gynecology (i.e. inappropriate amount), and another with a lot of urology. Some of these subspecialties, though, are briefly touched on in other sections like trauma (ureteral injury). Some of the answers are listed incorrectly (i.e. they put A when they meant D), though you'll be able to tell, and the authors err less than Hopkins or Schwartz.
Despite (or perhaps because of) the above, the book is quite doable and makes for a surprisingly quick way to do 1400 questions. I would contrast this to Rush where it takes 1-2 hours to slog through a chapter. Some people say the test is basically in Rush, but the test is also in Greenfield's or Sabiston's. I can read this book and remain sane.
The online version is cumbersome (and I'm a fan of on-line question banks), but it's nice to have it available so you don't want to lug the book everywhere.
My recommendation would be to use the good ol' ABSITE Review by Fiser (any edition) for an overall review with this as a way of pre-testing and solidifying information. The ABSITE Review does about as much Basic Science and subspecialty work as any general surgery resident can handle. A little bit before the test, review the ABSITE Killer if you can find a copy. Even though it's 10+ years old, there's still some trivial minutiae you can memorize from it (e.g. ENT stuff I will never treat). This book, though, was the best way for me to do questions. I would rank Schwartz second to this (Schwartz is broader) and then Hopkins. Rush is more of a textbook / Q&A hybrid.
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