Advice On Neuro Shelf Exam

[voltron77]

Does anyone have any advice on how to study for the Neuro shelf exam? Any comments/suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

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[jdh71]

Does anyone have any advice on how to study for the Neuro shelf exam? Any comments/suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

Covers a lot of territory, and you are definitely at a disadvantage taking it early IMHO. It seemed to me the test was much more the basic neurology you would see mostly in other specialties and not so much hard-core neurology. Did that make sense? Probably not. Pretty much know your commony disease that will present neurologically or with definite neurologic symptoms as a component that you would likely see in the ER, especially infections. Know stroke cold and be able to locate the lesion - generally. Know the usual suspects ALS, guillain barre, tabes doralis, syringomyalia, etc - this stuff is easy to ask questions about. Peripheral neuropathy showed up in a primary care type of questioning than I would have expected, and obviously the cuases for this DM2, alcoholism, b12 defic, etc. They love to ask you seizures types and drugs. Man that's about all I can remember. Hope it helps. Good luck.

 

[CanIMakeIt]

Covers a lot of territory, and you are definitely at a disadvantage taking it early IMHO. It seemed to me the test was much more the basic neurology you would see mostly in other specialties and not so much hard-core neurology. Did that make sense? Probably not. Pretty much know your commony disease that will present neurologically or with definite neurologic symptoms as a component that you would likely see in the ER, especially infections. Know stroke cold and be able to locate the lesion - generally. Know the usual suspects ALS, guillain barre, tabes doralis, syringomyalia, etc - this stuff is easy to ask questions about. Peripheral neuropathy showed up in a primary care type of questioning than I would have expected, and obviously the cuases for this DM2, alcoholism, b12 defic, etc. They love to ask you seizures types and drugs. Man that's about all I can remember. Hope it helps. Good luck.

I took it a few days back and I can say that you are right on the money. It was my first shelf and it sucked. I have been told that if you can get in your Medicine shelf early on, all other shelf are so much easier but I didn't have the luxary.

Know whatever jdh71 said cold....they tend to ask al ot of questions about no so many things.

 

[osar92]

what books do you guys recommend to study for the neuro shelf?

 

[lord_jeebus]

I thought this was one of the only subjects where Blueprints was a good choice. Pretest was also quite good for this one.

 

[voltron77]

I used Blueprints, Pre-Test and then looked over Boards and Wards (Neuro section) as a quick review the morning of the shelf exam. Overall, I think Blueprints was pretty good for Neuro, which I just took this past Thursday. Best of luck to you!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[mdphd2b]

I used Blueprints, Pre-Test and then looked over Boards and Wards (Neuro section) as a quick review the morning of the shelf exam. Overall, I think Blueprints was pretty good for Neuro, which I just took this past Thursday. Best of luck to you!!!!!!!!!!!

We had only 12 days of Neurology, then the shelf I did Pretest Neuro as many times as possible, and filled in w/ Kaplan Step2 Neuro notes.