McGraw-Hill Specialty Board Review Pain Medicine 1st Edition

Read and answered the test questions first as practice test cover-to- cover, then compared my answers to the explanation answers listed after each chapter, then took notes on the explanations (50 pages!). This was combined with pain board review course as well. Just found out that I passed the ABPMR/Pain Medicine subspecialty exam. Would recommend this book as useful review for practice-test taking, combined with other resources.

I am writing to reiterate many of the previous reviews. I am not stating anything new, but I feel compelled to emphasize how poorly executed this review book is. Just on the first page of questions there are so many contradictory statements, wrong or incomplete answers and inadequately reviewed answers that I fear that I am worse off for using this book. The problems remain consistently bad throughout the text. I would say that you are throwing away money by buying this, but it is worse than that. Since you are learning wrong or incomplete information, you would be better off using nothing at all. In that sense, I would pay money not to use this. Studying from this book is equivalent to engaging in a weight training program that makes you weaker.In short, do not buy this book.

Could be an excellent board review with relevant content. However there were ubiquitous errors throughout distracting from the otherwise interesting material. Question and answer format is fine but the written answers FREQUENTLY contradicted the letter in the answer key. Typos and numerous internal errors in the questions and answers made me give this book a poor rating. Problems begin in the first two pages and never let up.Doubt this book was seriously edited otherwise would not have so many double negativequestions, some long through answers and some with just letter values and no explainations etc. The authors need to redo it, eliminate errors and make it more internally consistant

There is definitely good material but A LOT of obvious errors. It's blatantly apparent no one proofread this thing. Surprised there wasn't a website devoted to rectifying the mistakes there are so many. Would only recommend this if used in conjunction with another book or else you risk memorizing the wrong info for the exam

I recently took the American Board of Pain Medicine recertification exam. I found this book to be very helpful. It has a great deal of good information covering all aspects of pain medicine. When I sat done to take the test I saw question after question regarding concepts that I had just studied from the book. I feel like I did well on the test, and that using this study guide contributed significantly. One of the best benefits was that I was able to move through the questions more quickly, because I had just seen that concept or answered a similar question in the days leading up to the exam. The information in the discussion of the answers is detailed and helpful. The topics covered are representative of the information covered in the test. The discussions often cover much more than the one or two concepts that a given question is designed to test. The questions are generally well-written, although in my ebook format I did find multiple questions with the wrong answer indicated. It was not difficult to detect an error, or to find information to confirm an answer was wrong. The book is very valuable in spite of the editing or proof-reading errors that created the wrong answers.

Very thorough though a few mistakes noted. I am still working through the book for ABA Pain Medicine recertification but very helpful so far and a good value. The fibromyalgia section needs to updated.

I recently took the ABA and the ABPM exams. I found the book extremely useful. In fact some of the material is so comprehensively written that I have been referring it to every so often. The questions cover a broad range of topics and key words. The explanations are concise and to the point. The book is good practice if you are preparing for any of the exams. It covers any topics or keywords you may have missed. I have been recommending the book to all my colleagues who are planning on taking the exams.I would also recommend trying this website for some great questions and review: [...]

I am a board certified anesthesiologist-pain practitioner with 20 years pain experience. I am reviewing for my 2nd 10 year re-cert, so this will be my 3rd time for pain boards. I want to agree in strongest possible terms with all prior negative one-star reviews. This book would be improved if all the answers were removed, and let the reader figure it out unaided. Even then, many of the questions are just goofy and unlikely to appear on an exam. It should not continue to be published.I am still looking for an excellent review resource. I am currently using the Dannemiller lectures which are good, not great. Going through a lot of questions seems to be important. Remember that the exam measures your ability to give correct answers to commonly asked questions, not your general fund of knowledge. Good questions are hard to write, so there is a finite number of them.