APPENDIX D

MEDICINE I: STUDY SUGGESTIONS

The NBME Subject Exam does cover:

a.  Differential Diagnosis

b.  Presentation

1. History and physical findings of disease

2. Laboratory/x-ray/EKG manifestation of disease

c.  Natural History of Disease

d.  Complications of Therapy

e.  Prevention of Disease

f.   Neurology, Medical Related Dermatology

The NBME Subject Exam does not emphasize:

a.  Controversial Topics

b.  Very New Topics (within 2 Years)

c.  Details of Therapy

d.  Non-Internal Medicine Except for as Above

Suggestions for Preparing for End-of-Rotation Shelf Examination

a.  Ask questions during rounds regarding history/physical findings, natural history of disease, laboratory/x-ray findings on patients you see.

  b.  Read extensively about the diseases of your own patients

c.  Fulfill all requirements of the clerkship including conferences

d.  Read systematically in Cecil Essentials of Medicine, 6th edition
Edited by Thomas E. Andreoli, C.J. Carpenter, Robert C. Griggs, and Joseph Loscalzo
Philadelphia: WB Saunders, 2004
      *****7th edition will be published in 2007 as            
      "Andreoli and Carpenter's Cecil Essentials of Medicine"

Additional Subject Exam Resourses:

Enter through UIC Library :
http://www.uic.edu/depts/lib/lhsu/resources/examrev.shtml

List of books available for test review from the library:
http://www.uic.edu/depts/lib/lhsu/resources/examrev/medicine.shtml

ACP online has information on how to study for boards which may help:
http://www.acponline.org/journals/news/jun03/boards.htm

MKSAP Version 3 (Jackie McCoy has a copy to check-out)