Appleton & Lange’s Review for the Physician Assistant
January 30, 2015 - Comment
This review prepares students for the certification and recertification examinations of the NCCPA with 1200 AAPA formatted questions and answers. Forty per cent of the material has been revised and updated to reflect exam content and format. Product Features Used Book in Good Condition
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Useful but not without plenty of typos and other errors I passed the NCCPA board exam using this book and 2 review books on Internal Medicine. I did not even review the NCCPA blueprint (which you should not do by any means). I put in a total of 4-5 weeks of good study. This book certainly covers all the terrain you will need in terms of scope. The questions are excellent and the answers are thorough enough. By the time you finish this and take the 200 Question test at the end (I scored 95% after reviewing the whole book…but would have done much…
Multiple Errors throughout. Needs to be re-edited I initially thought the book would be quite useful. After using to prepare for the PANCE, my classmates and I found many errors in the information. There were answers which were mislabeled as well as answers which were flat out incorrect. An example is its answer to “what is the most common hernia in females”, it states the answer is “femoral”, which is incorrect. Femoral is more common in females, but inguinal hernias remain the most common in both sexes. At this…
Buyer Beware This review concerns the 4th edition. As a new graduate, I am using this text, amongst others, to prepare for the PANCE. First of all, it is a productive study tool for that purpose, but despite what Anthony Miller, MEd, PA-C (one of the editors) states in an earlier review (see above), it is still littered with incorrect information. The authors state that 75% of the info is new, and maybe it is, but that doesn’t alter the facts. Some of these answers and explanations really make you…