Pediatric Shelf: it's broad and occasionally frustrating. It seems like 85% a medicine exam but they reduced the ages. You can count on seeing the bread and butter pediatric content though: vaxx, developmental milestones, rashes, malignancy, *orthopedics. I had one repeat question on the shelf from the clinical science mastery form #3. No great textbook, but some used BRS pediatrics and liked it. Step 1 knowledge is helpful. UWorld questions are helpful. Click here for Amazon link to BRS pediatrics - http://amzn.to/2oxoTGi via @amazon
Psychiatry: super focused and can’t rely on knowledge from other clerkships to help necessarily. FA Psych is a fantastic book. They love to ask diagnostic criteria or give you a solid MDD vignette without all the criterion met and force you to assume and treat. Know the timelines required for diagnostics. Know intoxication symptoms. Know pharm. Probably most straightforward exam out of all of them. Check out this Amazon deal: First Aid for the Psychiatry Clerkship, Fourt... by Latha Ganti http://amzn.to/2tbstuP via @amazon
OB: again cant rely on other clerkship knowledge persay. For textbooks, people like Blueprints is dry but highly revered. Lots of focus on management of complications on the shelf. The ACOG Uwise bank was far far far greater than UWorld for this exam. Knowing Uwise very ver well will do you solid. I really felt like clinical science mastery form 3 and 4 were excellent and that 2 was tricky and 1 was garbage. Check out this Amazon deal: Blueprints Obstetrics & Gynecology by Dr. Tamara Callahan M.D. http://amzn.to/2F0iXQH via @amazon
Medicine: People recommend mostly IM UWorld, and SU2M. The SU2M book isn’t a fun read though. OnlineMedEd is super good for most topics. Also need to know ambulatory care and screening guidelines. Check out this Amazon deal: Step-Up to Medicine (Step-Up Series) by Steven S. Agabegi http://amzn.to/2t5mc3p via @amazon
Surgery: For textbook, I loved Pestansa's. DeVirgilio was also helpful but Pestansa's is most of what you'll need. Check out this Amazon deal: Dr. Pestana's Surgery Notes: Top 180 Vignette... by Dr. Carlos Pestana http://amzn.to/2tbtrXZ via @amazon
Family Medicine: no great textbook. If you liked NMS or case files before, try it now. The AAFP has questions available to students. I felt like these are pretty low yield sometimes and have very diminishing returns after about 400. Know your USPSTF guidelines. Review some peds/ob stuff if you haven’t had it yet.
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