McGraw-Hill Specialty Board Review Pain Medicine

Good book overall but questions are way too easy. It's OK to use as quick review BEFORE you start studying for the pain boards to see what areas you are more deficient in, but do not use to study from or as a single source, it is not enough. I passed the boards comfortably but the actual exam questions were much longer and much more difficult than questions in this book.

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

Lots of errors there are much better books out there

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

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 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.

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 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.