Derived from a popular review course for residents and fellows at Yale University''s Department of Psychiatry, this comprehensive question-and-answer review book will prepare resident and practicing psychiatrists for all types of standardized examinations, including the PRITE, the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology written exam, and recertification exams
The book contains 2,000 multiple-choice questions divided into ten 200-question tests, and each test covers all psychiatry and neurology topics in the ABPN curriculum. An answer section with complete answers, explanations, and references for further review follows each test.All of the questions will be available on acompanion Website, so that readers can take the tests online.
I recently bought this book since it was new in the market and had one but high rating. I had completed doing all the old PRITEs and was wanting to practise more questions. I was disappointed though with the book. The questions do not reflect the PRITE style and so it does not resemble the ABPN style . Majority of the questions are written as, 'Which of the following is NOT TRUE', ''Which of the following is TRUE', 'All are correct EXCEPT' style.This makes the book boaring and uninteresting. Although they h..
Inaccurate on ME (CFS). For example, it says neurasthenia (which has overlap with ME) is a form of somatoform disorder (p.28, question 8). There are over 4,000 articles in peer reviewed medical journals showing frank biological pathology in ME. ME causes an enormous amount of morbidity and suffering. The propagation of falsehoods like these contribute to a huge amount of iatrogenic morbidity (and sometimes mortality) for people with ME.
