Welch Medical Library Guides: Medical Education: USMLE/Board Review Resources

Bate's Visual Guide to Physical Examination

Bates' Visual Guide features head-to-toe and systems-based physical exam videos to help you prepare for boards, OSCE exams, and patient encounters.

Board Vitals

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BoardVitals is an interactive board review tool that can be used by practicing physicians, medical students and residents. With BoardVitals, you have the ability to create customized practice tests using many options including number or questions, subjects and more. Also included are detailed, up-to-date explanations with each answer, with references and links to applicable sources. Subscription includes USMLE Step 1-3, Emergency Medicine, Otolaryngology, Pain ... etc exam questions. Requires registration with your Johns Hopkins email address. JHU email domains included on subscription are jhmi.edu, jhu.edu and jhuapl.edu

Additional Review Resources

AccessMedicine, and other Access products, have study tools to help with exam preparation:

Review Questions - generate multiple choice quizzes for basic sciences, clinical practice, and board review from references such as Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine and Ganong's Medical Physiology Examination & Board Review.
Flashcards - interactive flashcards which are chosen by specific topic or resource
Clerkship Topics - highlights chapters and cases from clerkship areas and topics.
Showdown - Quiz-bowl style challenge you can play with your colleagues or challenge the computer.

To access the study tools, save assessments, progress, and favorite content, and link to books directly you will want to make a MyAccess Account. To make a MyAccess Account:

Go to AccessMedicine
In the upper right hand corner, click on Sign In >> Sign in or Create a Free MyAccess Profile
In the bottom left of the MyAccess box, click on Create a free MyAccess profile
Fill in the required fields and click Create Profile