Clinical Anesthesiology Board Review: A Test Simulation and Self-Assessment Tool by Chu

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First to Market: The Only Anesthesiology Board Review That Simulates the Actual Exam!

This one-of-a-kind resource provides detailed and thoroughly researched answers and explanations to actual exam questions used in previous American Board of Anesthesiology examinations. High-yield and relevant, this is the ideal review book to help residents pass the American Board of Anesthesia written certification examination.

• Answers are indexed by topic to help residents assess their strengths and weaknesses on the different components of the exam

Larry Chu, MD, MS is from the Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine.

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Reviewer:David B. Glick, MD, MBA (University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine)
Description:This publication includes the examination booklet for the 1993 ABA in-training exam with brief explanations of the answers to each question.
Purpose:It is designed to provide a test simulation for the ABA in-training exam that is as close as possible to the real thing. While this is a worthy objective, the problem is that the ABA protects its exams and the released exam used as the basis for the book is 12 years old.
Audience:This is intended for use by readers preparing to take the ABA in-training exam. The answers to the questions have been written by members of the Stanford faculty and their residents and fellows. The vast majority of the answers are well researched and efforts have clearly been made to bring current thinking to these decade-old questions.
Features:The book begins with a reproduction of books A and B of the 1993 ABA in-training examination. Answer sheets are provided for the reader to fill in. The majority of the book covers the answers to the questions on the exam. Each answer begins with an explanation of the correct response, followed by an evaluation of each of the possible responses. Finally, the key points are reiterated in the "Reasoning" section. The problem is that the authors are confined by the 12-year old questions. In addition, the structure of each answer section results in an extremely repetitive presentation as much of what is in the "Summary" section is repeated in the "Reasoning" section.
Assessment:There is a fairly limited collection of goodquestion-based review books for the ABA in-training exam. The use of a retired ABA exam certainly argues strongly for the validity of this particular collection of questions. Nevertheless, other books that have attempted to write questions that more accurately reflect current practice better represent the issues being tested on recent exams.

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