★ 颱灣孩子成為美國醫師！
★ 美國醫師執照USMLE考試最強教戰守策！
★ AMAZON網站同類書籍最高評級與評語！
真哪噠跨界齣版钜獻！
１. 本書收集瞭最新、最全麵、最豐富的臨床急診知識。
２. 對 USMLE Step 2 CK and Step 3中經常測試的大多數疾病和病癥進行係統、全麵和簡明的迴顧。
３. 內容條理清晰，格式易於記憶。800道USMLE格式的臨床問題，155張臨床彩色圖像，附帶簡要的診斷特徵，幫助你更深入地消化和記憶相關的基礎臨床知識。
徹底消化這本書，使用 UWorld.com 和 NBME.org 上最好的 Q-bank 自我評估進行練習，並做筆記，您就可以高分擊敗 USMLE Step 2 CK 和 Step 3，獲得 USMLE 和 ECFMG 的門票！
本書亦可成為美國和世界各地醫學院教育的強大學習輔助工具。
※ 本書內容為英文。
This new edition of Yale-G First Aid: Crush USMLE Step 2 CK & Step 3 has been continuously updated from the previous editions.
According to the large volume of feedbacks on Amazon and to our author team from medical students and doctors in the US and around the world, this book has collected the most up-to-date, comprehensive, and high-yield clinical knowledge (CK) for the USMLE Step 2 CK and Step 3 as the best-rated one in the USMLE market.
This book can be the equivalent of "First Aid for the USMLE Step 1" for the USMLE Step 2 CK. Important features of this book include:
1. Systematic, comprehensive, and concise reviews of most diseases and disorders that are frequently tested in the USMLE Step 2 CK and Step 3. They are composed of important concepts, etiologies, essentials of diagnoses, differential diagnoses, treatments, and preventive measures.
2. Well-organized contents in easy-to-remember formats, abbreviations, and more than 100 tables and figures with summaries and differential diagnoses, and with necessary details of high-yield “orderly steps” in the diagnosis and management of major diseases. Most important clinical points are in “PEARLS”, underlined, and bolded as priority contents.
3. 800 high-yield clinical questions in USMLE format to help you digest the fundamental knowledge.
4. 155 high-yield clinical color images with brief diagnostic features (in the back of book to cut cost) for deeper digestion and memory of the associated fundamental clinical knowledge.
After thorough digestion of this book followed by practice with the best Q-bank on UWorld.com and NBME.org Self-Assessments, with note-taking, you are ready to crush the USMLE Step 2 CK and Step 3 with high scores!
具體描述
徵途漫漫：內科住院醫師與執業醫師考試的全麵攻略與精深準備 在醫學教育的宏大圖景中，從醫學院走嚮獨立執業的醫師，必須經曆數個關鍵的知識與技能的檢驗，其中，美國醫師執照考試（USMLE）的Step 2 CK和Step 3無疑是裏程碑式的挑戰。這兩項考試不僅考察對基礎醫學知識的融會貫通，更側重於臨床決策能力、患者管理策略以及對醫學倫理和法律框架的深刻理解。 本指南，旨在為那些正步入臨床輪轉、籌備Step 2 CK，或已進入住院醫師階段，準備迎接Step 3的醫學生與住院醫師提供一個高度結構化、側重於臨床思維建構的復習框架。我們深知，市麵上充斥著大量碎片化的知識點匯編與純粹的題海戰術，但真正的臨床能力，源於對疾病本質的洞察、對復雜病例的係統性分析，以及在壓力下做齣最佳判斷的信心。 本書的獨特視角與核心目標： 本書並非傳統的、按學科劃分的百科全書式知識點堆砌。相反，它被設計成一個“臨床整閤思維的催化劑”。我們的核心目標是幫助讀者實現從“知道疾病是什麼”到“知道如何管理患有此疾病的病人”的飛躍。 第一部分：Step 2 CK——跨越知識廣度與臨床精度的鴻溝 Step 2 CK，通常被稱為臨床知識考試，是對已習得的醫學知識如何在真實世界中應用的終極測試。本部分將重點解決以下幾個核心問題： 一、係統性疾病管理流程的重建： 我們不隻是簡單羅列癥狀和體徵，而是深入剖析每一個常見和重要的疾病（如心血管疾病、感染性疾病、內分泌失調、血液腫瘤等）的診療算法。 初步評估與鑒彆診斷的藝術： 強調如何根據病史采集的細微綫索和體格檢查的發現，快速構建一個閤理的鑒彆診斷列錶。這包括對“紅旗”（Red Flags）的識彆，即那些暗示需要緊急乾預的臨床指徵。 診斷策略的優化： 探討各種檢查（實驗室檢查、影像學、病理學）的敏感性和特異性，以及如何運用成本效益原則，避免不必要的過度檢查或延誤關鍵診斷。我們將詳細分析何時選擇CT優於MRI，何時首選超聲，以及如何解讀復雜的病理報告。 治療方案的階梯化選擇： 針對慢性病和急性病，本書提供清晰的治療路綫圖。例如，在管理新診斷的2型糖尿病患者時，從生活方式乾預到一綫藥物（二甲雙胍）的選擇，再到二綫藥物（如SGLT2抑製劑或GLP-1受體激動劑）在特定閤並癥（如心衰或CKD）存在時的優先排序。 二、跨學科整閤的深度挖掘： Step 2 CK的難度在於其高度的臨床情境化。本書在每一個章節中都強行穿插不同學科的交叉點： 産科與內科的交集： 妊娠期高血壓疾病的管理、妊娠期感染性疾病的篩查與治療。 精神病學與普通內科的融閤： 軀體疾病引起的精神癥狀（如甲狀腺功能異常引起的抑鬱/躁狂），以及常見精神藥物在患有特定內科疾病（如QT間期延長）患者中的應用禁忌。 外科急癥的識彆與術前準備： 如何識彆需要緊急手術乾預的腹部急癥（如憩室炎穿孔、急性胰腺炎的嚴重程度分級），以及患者的圍手術期管理。 第二部分：Step 3——從知識掌握到獨立決策的蛻變 Step 3考試標誌著醫學生嚮獨立執業醫師的過渡。它不僅考察知識，更考驗臨床推理的成熟度和對係統性、長期患者管理的把握。本部分將聚焦於“係統性故障排除與連續性照護”。 一、基礎科學的臨床應用迴顧（The Clinical Translation）： Step 3要求考生能夠迴溯到基礎科學層麵解釋臨床現象。 藥理學與毒理學： 重點關注藥物相互作用的機製（酶誘導與抑製）、不良反應的生物化學基礎，以及常見中毒（如對乙酰氨基酚、一氧化碳）的拮抗劑選擇與給藥時機。 微生物學與抗生素策略： 不僅僅是記住“什麼細菌對什麼抗生素敏感”，更重要的是理解在特定患者群體（免疫抑製、腎功能不全）中如何調整劑量，以及如何根據當地的流行病學數據製定經驗性治療方案。 二、住院醫師日常的核心能力模塊： Step 3的案例題（Multiple Case Simulations, MCS）是其難點所在。本指南將提供應對這些模擬場景的結構化思維模闆： 1. 優先級排序（Triage & Stabilization）： 在一個多患者或單患者病情急劇惡化的場景中，確定最需要立即乾預的生命體徵或實驗室異常。 2. 風險分層與監測： 學習使用成熟的評分係統（如SOFA、APACHE II、CHA2DS2-VASc等）來客觀評估病情嚴重程度，並製定恰當的住院監測計劃（如ICU升級、降級標準）。 3. 齣院規劃與患者教育： 深入探討慢性病（如心力衰竭、COPD）的長期管理，包括何時可以安全齣院、需要哪些門診隨訪、以及對患者進行何種關鍵的依從性教育（如降鈉飲食、戒煙）。 三、臨床倫理、法律與醫療係統管理： Step 3極大地增加瞭對非技術性臨床技能的考察。 知情同意的深度理解： 在涉及高風險手術、實驗性治療或拒絕治療的場景中，如何確保患者的決策是“有能力”（Competent）且“知情”（Informed）的。 處理衝突與醫療錯誤： 學習在發生醫療差錯後，如何進行係統層麵的反思（而非僅僅是個人道歉），以及如何與難纏的傢屬或同事進行專業溝通。 結語：構建終身學習的基石 準備Step 2 CK和Step 3的過程，本質上是構建一個“以患者為中心”的、可信賴的臨床決策樹。本書提供的不僅僅是知識點，更是一種思考的範式：麵對未知或復雜的臨床難題時，如何係統地分解問題、應用循證醫學證據，並最終為患者製定齣最安全、最有效的管理路徑。通過精研本書提供的深度整閤內容，讀者將能夠自信地迎接考試的挑戰，更重要的是，為未來在臨床實踐中肩負起更大的責任做好充分的準備。
著者信息
作者簡介
Yale Gong
貢雲華，醫學博士，碩士，持有美國醫師執照考試（USMLE） 證書及美國醫學博士資格。為美國神經與臨床科學傢，擔任科學顧問近30年，曾任聯邦軍醫大學（USUHS）神經內科助理教授、賓夕法尼亞大學醫學院神經內科資深研究員、聯邦醫學研究與發展指揮部科學顧問。
Yale-G First Aid: Crush USMLE Step 2 CK and Step 3 （臨床醫學精華） 第八版是集其十年心血之作，主要基於美國醫學界權威的美國醫師執照考試委員會的要求和Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment等內容，第七版在同類書中獲得AMAZON 的最高評級與評語 （https://www.amazon.com/Yale-G-First-Aid-Crush-USMLE/dp/1637957580）。
本書堪稱全球醫學生畢業與執照考試的最佳工具書之一。
Yale Gong, MD, MS, USMLE-Certified, has been an Assistant Professor of Neurology in USUHS, Senior Research Investigator in the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Neuroscientist, Clinical Scientist, and Army Scientific Advisor for the past 30 years in the US. The latest 8th edition of Yale-G First Aid: Crush USMLE Step 2 CK and Step 3 under publication is the intelligent fruits after the author’s ten years of persistent efforts, based on the requirements of USMLE.org and authoritative Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment, etc. The 7th edition has gained the best rating and reader’s reviews among all similar books on amazon.com. This book can be one of the best tool books for all medical students’ graduating and licensing examinations around the world!
Yale Gong
貢雲華，醫學博士，碩士，持有美國醫師執照考試（USMLE） 證書及美國醫學博士資格。為美國神經與臨床科學傢，擔任科學顧問近30年，曾任聯邦軍醫大學（USUHS）神經內科助理教授、賓夕法尼亞大學醫學院神經內科資深研究員、聯邦醫學研究與發展指揮部科學顧問。
Yale-G First Aid: Crush USMLE Step 2 CK and Step 3 （臨床醫學精華） 第八版是集其十年心血之作，主要基於美國醫學界權威的美國醫師執照考試委員會的要求和Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment等內容，第七版在同類書中獲得AMAZON 的最高評級與評語 （https://www.amazon.com/Yale-G-First-Aid-Crush-USMLE/dp/1637957580）。
本書堪稱全球醫學生畢業與執照考試的最佳工具書之一。
Yale Gong, MD, MS, USMLE-Certified, has been an Assistant Professor of Neurology in USUHS, Senior Research Investigator in the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Neuroscientist, Clinical Scientist, and Army Scientific Advisor for the past 30 years in the US. The latest 8th edition of Yale-G First Aid: Crush USMLE Step 2 CK and Step 3 under publication is the intelligent fruits after the author’s ten years of persistent efforts, based on the requirements of USMLE.org and authoritative Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment, etc. The 7th edition has gained the best rating and reader’s reviews among all similar books on amazon.com. This book can be one of the best tool books for all medical students’ graduating and licensing examinations around the world!
圖書目錄
Chapter 1: INFECTIOUS DISEASES (Suggested range according to usmle.org: 7-8%) 1
PEARLS—High-yield Applications of Antibiotics 1
EYE, EAR, NOSE AND THROAT INFECTIONS 5
RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS 10
INFECTIONS OF THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM (CNS) 19
GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT INFECTIONS 23
VIRAL HEPATITIS 25
UROGENITAL INFECTIONS AND SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES (STD) 30
UROGENITAL INFECTIONS 30
SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES (STD) 34
OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS (OIs) 40
BLOOD INFECTIONS AND RELATED DISEASES 42
BONE, JOINT AND MUSCLE INFECTIONS 47
ARTHROPOD-BORNE AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIONS 50
Chapter 1: High-yield Questions (HYQ) 54
Chapter 2: CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES (Suggested range: 10-11%) 71
CARDIAC ARRHYTHMIAS 72
ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE (IHD)—CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE (CAD) 75
DYSLIPIDEMIA 88
SYSTEMIC HYPERTENSION 90
PULMONARY HEART DISEASE 94
ENDOCARDIAL AND VALVULAR HEART DISEASES 95
VALVULAR HEART DISEASES 95
CONGENITAL HEART DISEASES 104
MYOCARDIAL DISEASES 111
PERICARDIAL DISEASES 115
VASCULAR DISEASES 119
Chapter 2: High-yield Questions (HYQ) 122
Chapter 3: RESPIRATORY DISEASES (Suggested range: 7-8%) 134
GAS EXCHANGE DISORDERS AND RESPIRATORY FAILURE 135
OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASES 137
RESTRICTIVE AND INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASES 143
ALVEOLAR FILLING DISEASES 148
DISEASES OF THE PULMONARY VASCULATURE 150
PLEURAL DISEASES 153
NEOPLASMS OF THE RESPIRATORY TRACT 154
MISCELLANEOUS DISEASES 158
Chapter 3: High-yield Questions (HYQ) 159
Chapter 4: DIGESTIVE AND NUTRITIONAL DISORDERS (Suggested range: 9-10%) 166
DISEASES OF THE ESOPHAGUS 166
DISEASES OF THE STOMACH AND DUODENUM 173
DISEASES OF THE PANCREAS 178
DISEASES OF THE GALLBLADDER 181
DISORDERS OF THE LIVER 185
GENETIC BILIRUBINEMIA 192
DISORDERS OF THE INTESTINE 193
INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES (IBD) 197
NEOPLASMS OF THE INTESTINE 201
HEMORRHAGE OF THE DIGESTIVE TRACT 203
MISCELLANEOUS DISEASES 205
NUTRITIONAL MEDICINE AND DISORDERS 208
Chapter 4: High-yield Questions (YHQ) 215
Chapter 5: ENDOCRINOLOGY (Suggested range: 7-8%) 223
DISORDERS OF GLUCOSE AND FAT METABOLISM 223
PITUITARY AND HYPOTHALAMIC DISEASES 228
DISORDERS OF THE ANTERIOR PITUITARY LOBE 229
DISORDERS OF THE POSTERIOR PITUITARY LOBE 232
DISEASES OF THE THYROID 234
DISORDERS OF THE PARATHYROID GLANDS 242
DISORDERS OF THE ADRENAL GLAND 245
HYPOGONADISM 250
Chapter 5: High-yield Questions (HYQ) 252
Chapter 6: HEMATOLOGY AND IMMUNOLOGIC DISORDERS (Suggested range: 9-10%) 259
ANEMIAS 259
NEUTROPENIA (LEUKOPENIA) 270
COAGULOPATHY 271
PLATELET DISORDERS 275
HEMATOPOIETIC NEOPLASMS 276
MYELOID NEOPLASMS 282
MYELOPROLIFERATIVE NEOPLASMS (MPNs) 283
PLASMA CELL DISORDERS 289
IMMUNOLOGIC DISEASES 292
ALLERGIC DISEASES 292
PRIMARY IMMUNODEFICIENCY DISORDERS 293
TRANSPLANTATION MEDICINE 296
Chapter 6: High-yield Questions (HYQ) 298
Chapter 7: RENAL, UROGENITAL, ACID-BASE, AND ELECTROLYTE DISORDERS
(Suggested range: 8-9%) 307
ACID-BASE DISORDER 307
TUBULOINTERSTITIAL DISEASES 308
GLOMERULAR DISEASES 311
ELECTROLYTE DISORDERS 316
NEPHROLITHIASIS 320
RENAL CYSTIC DESEASES 321
UROGENITAL NEOPLASMS 322
MISCELLANEOUS DISORDERS 328
Chapter 7: High-yield Questions (HYQ) 330
Chapter 8: MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASES (Suggested range: 8-9%) 337
ARTHRITIS 338
DEGENERATIVE AND CRYSTAL-INDUCED ARTHRITIS 338
SERONEGATIVE ARTHRITIS 341
AUTOIMMUNE CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASES 342
VASCULITIS SYNDROMES 348
PAIN SYNDROMES 354
SPORTS MEDICINE — SPORTS INJURIES 362
MISCELLANEOUS DISEASES 365
ORTHOPEDIC NEOPLASMS 368
Chapter 8: High-yield Questions (HYQ) 371
Chapter 9: NEUROLOGY AND SPECIAL SENSES (Suggested range: 9-10%) 379
NEUROLOGICAL TRAUMA AND INJURY 379
HEAD TRAUMA AND BRAIN INJURY 379
SPINAL CORD INJURY (SCI) 381
CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASES (STROKE) 384
ISCHEMIC STROKE 384
HEMORRHAGIC STROKE 387
EPILEPSY AND SEIZURE DISORDERS 389
HEADACHE 392
NEUROCOGNITIVE DISORDERS 393
CENTRAL NERVOUS MYELINOPATHIES 399
PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHIES 401
CENTRAL NERVOUS MOVEMENT DISORDERS 403
INTRACRANIAL NEOPLASMS 406
MISCELLANEOUS DISORDERS 407
VERTIGO AND DISEQUILIBRIUM 409
HEARING DISORDERS 411
OPHTHALMOLOGY—VISUAL DISORDERS 412
Chapter 9: High-yield Questions (HYQ) 417
Chapter 10: DERMATOLOGY (Suggested range: 5-6%) 427
COMMON TERMINOLOGY AND LESIONS IN DERMATOLOGY 427
DERMATOLOGIC INFECTIONS 428
VIRAL INFECTIONS 428
BACTERIAL INFECTIONS 431
FUNGAL INFECTIONS 434
PARASITIC INFECTIONS 436
IMMUNE-MEDIATED SKIN DISEASES 437
DYSPLASIAS AND NEOPLASIAS 444
MISCELLANEOUS SKIN DISORDERS 450
Chapter 10: High-yield Questions (HYQ) 452
Chapter 11: GYNECOLOGY (Suggested range: 7-8%) 458
AMENORRHEA AND RELATED DISORDERS 458
ABNORMAL UTERINE-VAGINAL HEMORRHAGE 462
GYNECOLOGIC INFECTIONS 464
GYNECOLOGIC NEOPLASMS 466
UTERINE NEOPLASMS 466
CERVICAL AND VAGINAL NEOPLASMS 468
OVARIAN MASSES 471
OVARIAN NEOPLASMS 472
BREAST DISEASES 474
MISCELLANEOUS DISORDERS 477
CONTRACEPTION 479
Chapter 11: High-yield Questions (HYQ) 480
Chapter 12: OBSTETRICS (Suggested range: 5-6%) 487
PHYSIOLOGY OF NORMAL PREGNANCY 487
NORMAL LABOR 495
ABNORMAL LABOR 496
MEDICAL COMPLICATIONS OF PREGNANCY 499
OBSTETRICAL COMPLICATIONS OF PREGNANCY 504
POSTNATAL (PUERPERIUM) 509
TERATOLOGY 511
Chapter 12: High-yield Questions (HYQ) 512
Chapter 13: PEDIATRICS (Suggested range: 9-10%) 518
NEWBORN DISEASES 518
DEVELOPMENT AND RELATED PROBLEMS . 531
PEDIATRIC NUTRITION AND RELATED DISORDERS. 531
PEDIATRIC INFECTIONS 531
CONGENITAL INFECTIONS 531
VIRAL INFECTIONS IN CHILDREN 533
RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS IN CHILDREN 534
CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES 536
GENETIC SYNDROMES 540
GENETIC METABOLIC ABNORMALITIES 541
LYSOSOMAL AND GLYCOGEN STORAGE DISEASES 542
Chapter 13: High-yield Questions (HYQ) 544
Chapter 14: EMERGENCY MEDICINE (Suggested range: 5-6%) 551
SHOCK AND CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION 551
ALTERED MENTAL STATUS 552
ANAPHYLAXIS 554
TOXICOLOGY 555
INTOXICATIONS OF SPECIAL TOXIC SUBSTANCES 556
INTERACTION, INTOXICATION AND DETOXIFICATION OF DRUGS 561
THERMAL INJURIES 565
DROWNING 567
VENOMOUS BITES 568
Chapter 15: SURGERY (Suggested range: 10-11%) 569
TRAUMA AND INJURY 569
CHEST TRAUMA 570
ABDOMINAL TRAUMA 574
PELVIC AND UROGENITAL TRAUMA 576
EXTREMITY TRAUMA 579
ORTHOPEDIC TRAUMA AND INJURIES 579
PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION 585
COMPLICATIONS OF SURGERY 586
ANALGESIA AND ANESTHESIA IN SURGERY AND OBSTETRICS 587
VOLUME DISORDERS 588
ABDOMINAL SURGERY 590
Chapter 14-15: High-Yield Questions (HYQ) 596
Chapter 16: PSYCHIATRY (Suggested range: 9-10%) 610
BASICS 610
NEURODEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS 612
DISRUPTIVE, IMPULSE-CONTROL, AND CONDUCT DISORDERS 618
DEPRESSIVE DISORDERS 621
BIPOLAR AND RELATED DISORDERS 625
NEUROTIC, STRESS-RELATED, AND SOMATOFORM DISORDERS 627
ANXIETY DISORDERS 627
TRAUMA- AND STRESSOR-RELATED DISORDERS 631
PERSONALITY DISORDERS 633
SCHIZOPHRENIA SPECTRUM AND OTHER PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS 637
SOMATIC SYMPTOM AND RELATED DISORDERS 642
SUBSTANCE-RELATED AND ADDICTIVE DISORDERS 646
FEEDING AND EATING DISORDERS 652
SLEEP-WAKE DISORDERS 655
SEXUAL DISORDERS 660
MIX—SOCIAL SCIENCES: SUICIDALITY AND DEATH 667
Chapter 16: High-yield Questions (HYQ) 667
Chapter 17: EPIDEMIOLOGY, BIOSTATISTICS, PREVENTIVE MEDICINE, AND MEDICAL ETHICS
(Range: 5-6%) 675
EPIDEMIOLOGY AND LITERATURE INTERPRETATION 675
ASSESSMENT OF DISEASE FREQUENCIES 675
ASSESSMENT OF DIAGNOSTIC TESTS 677
ASSESSMENT OF RISK AND MEASURES OF EFFECT 679
TYPES AND EVALUATIONS OF STUDIES 681
BIOSTATISTICS AND LITERATURE INTERPRETATION 683
INFERENTIAL STATISTICS 683
PREVENTIVE MEDICINE 690
POPULATION HEALTH 690
IMMUNIZATION AND VACCINATION 696
MEDICAL AND RESEARCH ETHICS 698
ABUSE 703
Chapter 17: High-yield Questions (HYQ) 706
NORMAL LAB VALUES OF IMPORTANCE 715
INDEX 718
ABBREVIATIONS 725
HIGH-YIELD CLINICAL IMAGES 729
PEARLS—High-yield Applications of Antibiotics 1
EYE, EAR, NOSE AND THROAT INFECTIONS 5
RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS 10
INFECTIONS OF THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM (CNS) 19
GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT INFECTIONS 23
VIRAL HEPATITIS 25
UROGENITAL INFECTIONS AND SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES (STD) 30
UROGENITAL INFECTIONS 30
SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES (STD) 34
OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS (OIs) 40
BLOOD INFECTIONS AND RELATED DISEASES 42
BONE, JOINT AND MUSCLE INFECTIONS 47
ARTHROPOD-BORNE AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIONS 50
Chapter 1: High-yield Questions (HYQ) 54
Chapter 2: CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES (Suggested range: 10-11%) 71
CARDIAC ARRHYTHMIAS 72
ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE (IHD)—CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE (CAD) 75
DYSLIPIDEMIA 88
SYSTEMIC HYPERTENSION 90
PULMONARY HEART DISEASE 94
ENDOCARDIAL AND VALVULAR HEART DISEASES 95
VALVULAR HEART DISEASES 95
CONGENITAL HEART DISEASES 104
MYOCARDIAL DISEASES 111
PERICARDIAL DISEASES 115
VASCULAR DISEASES 119
Chapter 2: High-yield Questions (HYQ) 122
Chapter 3: RESPIRATORY DISEASES (Suggested range: 7-8%) 134
GAS EXCHANGE DISORDERS AND RESPIRATORY FAILURE 135
OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASES 137
RESTRICTIVE AND INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASES 143
ALVEOLAR FILLING DISEASES 148
DISEASES OF THE PULMONARY VASCULATURE 150
PLEURAL DISEASES 153
NEOPLASMS OF THE RESPIRATORY TRACT 154
MISCELLANEOUS DISEASES 158
Chapter 3: High-yield Questions (HYQ) 159
Chapter 4: DIGESTIVE AND NUTRITIONAL DISORDERS (Suggested range: 9-10%) 166
DISEASES OF THE ESOPHAGUS 166
DISEASES OF THE STOMACH AND DUODENUM 173
DISEASES OF THE PANCREAS 178
DISEASES OF THE GALLBLADDER 181
DISORDERS OF THE LIVER 185
GENETIC BILIRUBINEMIA 192
DISORDERS OF THE INTESTINE 193
INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES (IBD) 197
NEOPLASMS OF THE INTESTINE 201
HEMORRHAGE OF THE DIGESTIVE TRACT 203
MISCELLANEOUS DISEASES 205
NUTRITIONAL MEDICINE AND DISORDERS 208
Chapter 4: High-yield Questions (YHQ) 215
Chapter 5: ENDOCRINOLOGY (Suggested range: 7-8%) 223
DISORDERS OF GLUCOSE AND FAT METABOLISM 223
PITUITARY AND HYPOTHALAMIC DISEASES 228
DISORDERS OF THE ANTERIOR PITUITARY LOBE 229
DISORDERS OF THE POSTERIOR PITUITARY LOBE 232
DISEASES OF THE THYROID 234
DISORDERS OF THE PARATHYROID GLANDS 242
DISORDERS OF THE ADRENAL GLAND 245
HYPOGONADISM 250
Chapter 5: High-yield Questions (HYQ) 252
Chapter 6: HEMATOLOGY AND IMMUNOLOGIC DISORDERS (Suggested range: 9-10%) 259
ANEMIAS 259
NEUTROPENIA (LEUKOPENIA) 270
COAGULOPATHY 271
PLATELET DISORDERS 275
HEMATOPOIETIC NEOPLASMS 276
MYELOID NEOPLASMS 282
MYELOPROLIFERATIVE NEOPLASMS (MPNs) 283
PLASMA CELL DISORDERS 289
IMMUNOLOGIC DISEASES 292
ALLERGIC DISEASES 292
PRIMARY IMMUNODEFICIENCY DISORDERS 293
TRANSPLANTATION MEDICINE 296
Chapter 6: High-yield Questions (HYQ) 298
Chapter 7: RENAL, UROGENITAL, ACID-BASE, AND ELECTROLYTE DISORDERS
(Suggested range: 8-9%) 307
ACID-BASE DISORDER 307
TUBULOINTERSTITIAL DISEASES 308
GLOMERULAR DISEASES 311
ELECTROLYTE DISORDERS 316
NEPHROLITHIASIS 320
RENAL CYSTIC DESEASES 321
UROGENITAL NEOPLASMS 322
MISCELLANEOUS DISORDERS 328
Chapter 7: High-yield Questions (HYQ) 330
Chapter 8: MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASES (Suggested range: 8-9%) 337
ARTHRITIS 338
DEGENERATIVE AND CRYSTAL-INDUCED ARTHRITIS 338
SERONEGATIVE ARTHRITIS 341
AUTOIMMUNE CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASES 342
VASCULITIS SYNDROMES 348
PAIN SYNDROMES 354
SPORTS MEDICINE — SPORTS INJURIES 362
MISCELLANEOUS DISEASES 365
ORTHOPEDIC NEOPLASMS 368
Chapter 8: High-yield Questions (HYQ) 371
Chapter 9: NEUROLOGY AND SPECIAL SENSES (Suggested range: 9-10%) 379
NEUROLOGICAL TRAUMA AND INJURY 379
HEAD TRAUMA AND BRAIN INJURY 379
SPINAL CORD INJURY (SCI) 381
CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASES (STROKE) 384
ISCHEMIC STROKE 384
HEMORRHAGIC STROKE 387
EPILEPSY AND SEIZURE DISORDERS 389
HEADACHE 392
NEUROCOGNITIVE DISORDERS 393
CENTRAL NERVOUS MYELINOPATHIES 399
PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHIES 401
CENTRAL NERVOUS MOVEMENT DISORDERS 403
INTRACRANIAL NEOPLASMS 406
MISCELLANEOUS DISORDERS 407
VERTIGO AND DISEQUILIBRIUM 409
HEARING DISORDERS 411
OPHTHALMOLOGY—VISUAL DISORDERS 412
Chapter 9: High-yield Questions (HYQ) 417
Chapter 10: DERMATOLOGY (Suggested range: 5-6%) 427
COMMON TERMINOLOGY AND LESIONS IN DERMATOLOGY 427
DERMATOLOGIC INFECTIONS 428
VIRAL INFECTIONS 428
BACTERIAL INFECTIONS 431
FUNGAL INFECTIONS 434
PARASITIC INFECTIONS 436
IMMUNE-MEDIATED SKIN DISEASES 437
DYSPLASIAS AND NEOPLASIAS 444
MISCELLANEOUS SKIN DISORDERS 450
Chapter 10: High-yield Questions (HYQ) 452
Chapter 11: GYNECOLOGY (Suggested range: 7-8%) 458
AMENORRHEA AND RELATED DISORDERS 458
ABNORMAL UTERINE-VAGINAL HEMORRHAGE 462
GYNECOLOGIC INFECTIONS 464
GYNECOLOGIC NEOPLASMS 466
UTERINE NEOPLASMS 466
CERVICAL AND VAGINAL NEOPLASMS 468
OVARIAN MASSES 471
OVARIAN NEOPLASMS 472
BREAST DISEASES 474
MISCELLANEOUS DISORDERS 477
CONTRACEPTION 479
Chapter 11: High-yield Questions (HYQ) 480
Chapter 12: OBSTETRICS (Suggested range: 5-6%) 487
PHYSIOLOGY OF NORMAL PREGNANCY 487
NORMAL LABOR 495
ABNORMAL LABOR 496
MEDICAL COMPLICATIONS OF PREGNANCY 499
OBSTETRICAL COMPLICATIONS OF PREGNANCY 504
POSTNATAL (PUERPERIUM) 509
TERATOLOGY 511
Chapter 12: High-yield Questions (HYQ) 512
Chapter 13: PEDIATRICS (Suggested range: 9-10%) 518
NEWBORN DISEASES 518
DEVELOPMENT AND RELATED PROBLEMS . 531
PEDIATRIC NUTRITION AND RELATED DISORDERS. 531
PEDIATRIC INFECTIONS 531
CONGENITAL INFECTIONS 531
VIRAL INFECTIONS IN CHILDREN 533
RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS IN CHILDREN 534
CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES 536
GENETIC SYNDROMES 540
GENETIC METABOLIC ABNORMALITIES 541
LYSOSOMAL AND GLYCOGEN STORAGE DISEASES 542
Chapter 13: High-yield Questions (HYQ) 544
Chapter 14: EMERGENCY MEDICINE (Suggested range: 5-6%) 551
SHOCK AND CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION 551
ALTERED MENTAL STATUS 552
ANAPHYLAXIS 554
TOXICOLOGY 555
INTOXICATIONS OF SPECIAL TOXIC SUBSTANCES 556
INTERACTION, INTOXICATION AND DETOXIFICATION OF DRUGS 561
THERMAL INJURIES 565
DROWNING 567
VENOMOUS BITES 568
Chapter 15: SURGERY (Suggested range: 10-11%) 569
TRAUMA AND INJURY 569
CHEST TRAUMA 570
ABDOMINAL TRAUMA 574
PELVIC AND UROGENITAL TRAUMA 576
EXTREMITY TRAUMA 579
ORTHOPEDIC TRAUMA AND INJURIES 579
PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION 585
COMPLICATIONS OF SURGERY 586
ANALGESIA AND ANESTHESIA IN SURGERY AND OBSTETRICS 587
VOLUME DISORDERS 588
ABDOMINAL SURGERY 590
Chapter 14-15: High-Yield Questions (HYQ) 596
Chapter 16: PSYCHIATRY (Suggested range: 9-10%) 610
BASICS 610
NEURODEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS 612
DISRUPTIVE, IMPULSE-CONTROL, AND CONDUCT DISORDERS 618
DEPRESSIVE DISORDERS 621
BIPOLAR AND RELATED DISORDERS 625
NEUROTIC, STRESS-RELATED, AND SOMATOFORM DISORDERS 627
ANXIETY DISORDERS 627
TRAUMA- AND STRESSOR-RELATED DISORDERS 631
PERSONALITY DISORDERS 633
SCHIZOPHRENIA SPECTRUM AND OTHER PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS 637
SOMATIC SYMPTOM AND RELATED DISORDERS 642
SUBSTANCE-RELATED AND ADDICTIVE DISORDERS 646
FEEDING AND EATING DISORDERS 652
SLEEP-WAKE DISORDERS 655
SEXUAL DISORDERS 660
MIX—SOCIAL SCIENCES: SUICIDALITY AND DEATH 667
Chapter 16: High-yield Questions (HYQ) 667
Chapter 17: EPIDEMIOLOGY, BIOSTATISTICS, PREVENTIVE MEDICINE, AND MEDICAL ETHICS
(Range: 5-6%) 675
EPIDEMIOLOGY AND LITERATURE INTERPRETATION 675
ASSESSMENT OF DISEASE FREQUENCIES 675
ASSESSMENT OF DIAGNOSTIC TESTS 677
ASSESSMENT OF RISK AND MEASURES OF EFFECT 679
TYPES AND EVALUATIONS OF STUDIES 681
BIOSTATISTICS AND LITERATURE INTERPRETATION 683
INFERENTIAL STATISTICS 683
PREVENTIVE MEDICINE 690
POPULATION HEALTH 690
IMMUNIZATION AND VACCINATION 696
MEDICAL AND RESEARCH ETHICS 698
ABUSE 703
Chapter 17: High-yield Questions (HYQ) 706
NORMAL LAB VALUES OF IMPORTANCE 715
INDEX 718
ABBREVIATIONS 725
HIGH-YIELD CLINICAL IMAGES 729
圖書序言
- ISBN：9786269729203
- 叢書係列：Examination
- 規格：平裝 / 756頁 / 21.6 x 28 x 3.9 cm / 普通級 / 單色印刷 / 初版
- 齣版地：颱灣
- 本書分類：專業/教科書/政府齣版品> 醫藥衛生類> 醫藥
圖書試讀
Preface
This new edition of “Yale-G First Aid: Crush USMLE Step 2 CK & Step 3” has been continuously updated from the previous editions. According to the large volume of feedbacks on Amazon and to our author team from medical students and doctors in the US and around the world, this book has collected the most up-to-date, comprehensive, and high-yield clinical knowledge (CK) for the USMLE Step 2 CK and Step 3 as the best-rated one in the USMLE market. This book can be the equivalent of “First Aid for the USMLE Step 1” for the USMLE Step 2 CK. Important features of this book include:
1. Systematic, comprehensive, and concise reviews of most diseases and disorders that are frequently tested in the USMLE Step 2 CK and Step 3. They are composed of important concepts, etiologies, essentials of diagnoses, differential diagnoses, treatments, and preventive measures.
2. Well-organized contents in easy-to-remember formats, abbreviations, and more than 100 tables and figures with summaries and differential diagnoses, and with necessary details of high-yield “orderly steps” in the diagnosis and management of major diseases. Most important clinical points are in “PEARLS”, underlined, and bolded as priority contents.
3. 800 high-yield clinical questions in USMLE format to help you digest the fundamental knowledge.
4. 155 high-yield clinical color images with brief diagnostic features (in the back of book to cut cost) for deeper digestion and memory of the associated fundamental clinical knowledge.
After thorough digestion of this book followed by practice with the best Q-bank on UWorld.com and NBME.org Self-Assessments, with note-taking, you are ready to crush the USMLE Step 2 CK and Step 3 with high scores!
This book is your ticket to the USMLE and ECFMG Certification! It can also be a powerful study aid in medical school education in the US and around the world. The author’s team takes all feedbacks and corrections positively and thankfully with rewards and maintains frequent updates to make it better and better for the USMLE clinical knowledge.
Best wishes to all who appreciate this book!
Yale Gong, MD
Washington, D.C.
*www.usmle.org: “USMLE Step 3: Examinees are seeing increased numbers of items that assess an expanded range of competency-based content, including foundational science essential for effective healthcare; biostatistics, epidemiology, and population health; literature interpretation; medical ethics; and patient safety.”
This new edition of “Yale-G First Aid: Crush USMLE Step 2 CK & Step 3” has been continuously updated from the previous editions. According to the large volume of feedbacks on Amazon and to our author team from medical students and doctors in the US and around the world, this book has collected the most up-to-date, comprehensive, and high-yield clinical knowledge (CK) for the USMLE Step 2 CK and Step 3 as the best-rated one in the USMLE market. This book can be the equivalent of “First Aid for the USMLE Step 1” for the USMLE Step 2 CK. Important features of this book include:
1. Systematic, comprehensive, and concise reviews of most diseases and disorders that are frequently tested in the USMLE Step 2 CK and Step 3. They are composed of important concepts, etiologies, essentials of diagnoses, differential diagnoses, treatments, and preventive measures.
2. Well-organized contents in easy-to-remember formats, abbreviations, and more than 100 tables and figures with summaries and differential diagnoses, and with necessary details of high-yield “orderly steps” in the diagnosis and management of major diseases. Most important clinical points are in “PEARLS”, underlined, and bolded as priority contents.
3. 800 high-yield clinical questions in USMLE format to help you digest the fundamental knowledge.
4. 155 high-yield clinical color images with brief diagnostic features (in the back of book to cut cost) for deeper digestion and memory of the associated fundamental clinical knowledge.
After thorough digestion of this book followed by practice with the best Q-bank on UWorld.com and NBME.org Self-Assessments, with note-taking, you are ready to crush the USMLE Step 2 CK and Step 3 with high scores!
This book is your ticket to the USMLE and ECFMG Certification! It can also be a powerful study aid in medical school education in the US and around the world. The author’s team takes all feedbacks and corrections positively and thankfully with rewards and maintains frequent updates to make it better and better for the USMLE clinical knowledge.
Best wishes to all who appreciate this book!
Yale Gong, MD
Washington, D.C.
*www.usmle.org: “USMLE Step 3: Examinees are seeing increased numbers of items that assess an expanded range of competency-based content, including foundational science essential for effective healthcare; biostatistics, epidemiology, and population health; literature interpretation; medical ethics; and patient safety.”
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