Physician Assistant Board Review: Certification and Recertification with online exam simulation | 
 enlarge | Author: James Van Rhee
Publisher: Saunders
Category: Book
List Price: $61.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  20 reviews
Sales Rank: 187077
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 448
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 10.7 x 8.2 x 0.7
ISBN: 1416025987
Dewey Decimal Number: 610.76
EAN: 9781416025986
ASIN: 1416025987
Publication Date: July 21, 2006
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Product Description
Whether you're a recent graduate or a seasoned professional, you understand how important obtaining and maintaining your certification is. Written by a Physician Assistant educator and director of an annual PANCE/PANRE board review program, this new interactive study guide embodies the practice-makes-perfect philosophy by offering you hundreds of questions along with the quickest and most thorough review of the material tested in PANCE and PANRE.
- Features questions on each page and at the end of every chapter - recall as you read helps you recall the information later on.
- Provides thorough explanations to strengthen your understanding of the rationale behind every answer. Incorporates extensive tables, charts, and photos to enhance learning and preparation.
- Includes access to a web site where you can take a 300-question, timed simulation of the Boards and score yourself to check your results
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I'd like to give this 5 stars but ... August 24, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I'd like to give this 5 stars but I can't because of some sloppy editing - crainial nerves misordered in the index, review questions presented before the topic is covered or answers not provided within the content of the review material. While I caught some or perhaps all of these errors, the frustration is that you have lingering doubts as to whether or not what you are learning is correct or not throughout the book - call it a lack of trust. This means that you have to cross reference the material eg the table of myocardial infarctions with other references to see if the information is good (it was good in this instance). Time that could have been spent just sucking in the information instead of verifying it.
So this keeps it from getting 5 stars. Now the rest of the story. The ordering sequence follows the PANCE outline quite accurately, which is exceptionally nice. The second part of the outline is only briefly mentioned in the index and could have been discussed in more detail IMO.
I also purchased Auth's book, Physician Assistant Review 3. In a head to head comparison, this book wins hands down and the Auth book comes in a distant second and ultimately was hardly used.
I purchased close to $1k of new medical books to review for this exam. Of all of them, this was the single most useful book. I literally wore the book out to where I had to restaple the book back together. Not a fault of the binder I suppose, but of the amount of use it received.
This book is the single most succint source of information for covering the required information out there. But it goes beyond that. Even if you were not studying for the PANCE exam, this is one of the most information packed sources of knowledge on general medicine I've seen.
I would strongly recommend using this book with a good medical dictionary alongside as many terms used are not defined. In practice, this forced me to do more work, but made the definitions of terms reinforced and expanded my medical vocabulary in the process.
So even though I have to reluctantly give it a 4 star rating for editorial quality, because of the exceptional quality of the content of this book, I consider it a superb book, one that should be bought both for the exam and as a reference afterwards.
I did not have a chance to use the online resources, so I can't comment on that for this review.
PA Board Review August 13, 2008
I like the way the book is organized with an outline format and periodic questions throughout. It is easy to follow and easy to find information from both the glossary and the table of contents. I hope I pass my board exam!
nice book, needs better editing February 3, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
For an "experienced PA educator" as the front page states, the author seems to have many problems with spelling, grammar, and overall editing. I was very disappointed to find little mistakes (at least several per chapter), however the information is organized nicely and so far it has been a great review. I'd recommend the author re-editing this book - other than the typos, it's nicer than any other PANCE study guide that I've found.
 Great Review book! December 30, 2007
Wow! This book really prepares the PA student for the boards! Its precise and gets down to the main points within each body system. This book was very helpful in reviewing topics and minor, yet important details! Recommended!
I like it December 7, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is the book I am pretty much using right now, to the point and exact PANCE blueprint is great.
A bit expensive $60 at the bookstore I found it at.
The on-line thing didn't work for me either a hassle.
It should have a CD ROM.
I wish the authors could make it in a flashcard product with fine comb editing, I would way buy it in flashcard form.
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