Resources
Up To Date
-For your patients-the more you read on your patients the better your overall preparation.
Rash Review
-A wonderful resource, great prep for the exam and the only peds specific resource for step 2.
USMLE World Pediatrics
-Unfortunately not all encompassing but worth doing twice if you time it correctly.
NBME exam: very helpful, some questions seemed to appear on the shelf however no explanations. Typically people perform much better on this than the actual pediatrics shelf.
Case files Pediatrics– gives clear cut pictures on basic presentations, no nuance or depth that shelf questions will often probe at. Case files-most normal presentations of the biggest disease, the breadth of coverage is insufficient, also clunky if you wish to reference a specific illness. Good if you want to see bread and butter cases explained in brief detail, not great for referencing.
Blueprints Pediatrics: great for a firm basis of pathology and knowledge for reference, not a quick read but more useful on this rotation than most.
Pretest Pediatrics-will provide questions on all the areas of surgery but not in SHELF format.
Pathoma: focus on childhood ailments usually at the beginning of each chapter. And the vasculitis diseases (HSP, Kawasaki) and renal (ITP/TTP, IgA Nephropathy, RSPGN). If you used this during step 1 preparation, reading over it should be more of a review process.
Kaplan Notes Pediatrics-time consuming but useful and more encompassing than most resources.
Goljan Rapid Review Pathology: very useful for quick reference of pathology. Just because it is year 3 does not make this useless! Many of your attendings will ask you basic physiology found in this book.
First Aid for Step 1
-often reviewing your basic pathophysiology will pay dividends on clinical medicine exams. Great place to quickly review your embryology and congenital malformations.
High Yield Topics
1. On a personal note, make sure to make photocopies of any papers to turn in for the rotation
2. Infections based on age group,
3. Differential for fever in children
4. Meningitis based on age group
5. Basic understanding of normal developmental milestones, at least 1-2 questions
6. Ages and changes accompanying puberty
7. Vaccines will not be more than 1-2 questions.
8. Jaundice types and etiology, see pathoma liver section
9. Trauma/choking
10. HSP
11. Strep pneumo
12. Abscess
13. C3 angioedema
14. Maybe, maybe a metabolic question
15. Hypothyroid baby
16. SIRS
17. Pneumonia
18. Otitis externa
19. Lyme disease
20. Pyloric stenosis
21. Trisomy 21
22. Ortho stuff-osgood-schlatter
23. Osteomyelitis
24. Osteosarcoma
25. Burkitts lymphoma
26. Congenital heart disease
27. Afebrile, staccato cough-chlamidya
28. Mycoplasma
29. Meningitis
30. Waterson-friederich
31. Constitutional delay
32. Endocrine growth issues
33. Lupus-
34. Steven Johnson
35. Erythema multiforme
36. Hemolytic anemia
37. ITP
38. Guillane barre
39. Juvenile arthritis
40. Teen with STD issues, PID
41. Immunosuppression
42. Rotavirus
43. Probably only one question regarding vaccines
44. Measles
45. Sub acute panencephalitis
46. Vaccines in the HIV child, live vs killed
47. Renal stuff: IgA nephropathy
48. Seizures surprisingly
49. Staphylococcus scalded skin
50. Asthma
Regarding Step 2
Uworld and the Rash review are your go to resources. The powerpoint from class is very high yield and then there are less than 100 pediatric questions but they are not easy, very similar to the Shelf.
Up To Date
-For your patients-the more you read on your patients the better your overall preparation.
Rash Review
-A wonderful resource, great prep for the exam and the only peds specific resource for step 2.
USMLE World Pediatrics
-Unfortunately not all encompassing but worth doing twice if you time it correctly.
NBME exam: very helpful, some questions seemed to appear on the shelf however no explanations. Typically people perform much better on this than the actual pediatrics shelf.
Case files Pediatrics– gives clear cut pictures on basic presentations, no nuance or depth that shelf questions will often probe at. Case files-most normal presentations of the biggest disease, the breadth of coverage is insufficient, also clunky if you wish to reference a specific illness. Good if you want to see bread and butter cases explained in brief detail, not great for referencing.
Blueprints Pediatrics: great for a firm basis of pathology and knowledge for reference, not a quick read but more useful on this rotation than most.
Pretest Pediatrics-will provide questions on all the areas of surgery but not in SHELF format.
Pathoma: focus on childhood ailments usually at the beginning of each chapter. And the vasculitis diseases (HSP, Kawasaki) and renal (ITP/TTP, IgA Nephropathy, RSPGN). If you used this during step 1 preparation, reading over it should be more of a review process.
Kaplan Notes Pediatrics-time consuming but useful and more encompassing than most resources.
Goljan Rapid Review Pathology: very useful for quick reference of pathology. Just because it is year 3 does not make this useless! Many of your attendings will ask you basic physiology found in this book.
First Aid for Step 1
-often reviewing your basic pathophysiology will pay dividends on clinical medicine exams. Great place to quickly review your embryology and congenital malformations.
High Yield Topics
1. On a personal note, make sure to make photocopies of any papers to turn in for the rotation
2. Infections based on age group,
3. Differential for fever in children
4. Meningitis based on age group
5. Basic understanding of normal developmental milestones, at least 1-2 questions
6. Ages and changes accompanying puberty
7. Vaccines will not be more than 1-2 questions.
8. Jaundice types and etiology, see pathoma liver section
9. Trauma/choking
10. HSP
11. Strep pneumo
12. Abscess
13. C3 angioedema
14. Maybe, maybe a metabolic question
15. Hypothyroid baby
16. SIRS
17. Pneumonia
18. Otitis externa
19. Lyme disease
20. Pyloric stenosis
21. Trisomy 21
22. Ortho stuff-osgood-schlatter
23. Osteomyelitis
24. Osteosarcoma
25. Burkitts lymphoma
26. Congenital heart disease
27. Afebrile, staccato cough-chlamidya
28. Mycoplasma
29. Meningitis
30. Waterson-friederich
31. Constitutional delay
32. Endocrine growth issues
33. Lupus-
34. Steven Johnson
35. Erythema multiforme
36. Hemolytic anemia
37. ITP
38. Guillane barre
39. Juvenile arthritis
40. Teen with STD issues, PID
41. Immunosuppression
42. Rotavirus
43. Probably only one question regarding vaccines
44. Measles
45. Sub acute panencephalitis
46. Vaccines in the HIV child, live vs killed
47. Renal stuff: IgA nephropathy
48. Seizures surprisingly
49. Staphylococcus scalded skin
50. Asthma
Regarding Step 2
Uworld and the Rash review are your go to resources. The powerpoint from class is very high yield and then there are less than 100 pediatric questions but they are not easy, very similar to the Shelf.