Family Medicine Board Review Book: Multiple Choice Questions & Answers, 2nd Edition

Packed with more than 1,000 multiple choice questions and answers on topics commonly found on ABFM board examinations, The Family Medicine Board Review Book, Second Edition, edited by Dr. Robert A. Baldor, helps you make the most of your study time and achieve exam success. It provides valuable background information on ABFM in-training, board certification, and recertification examinations and their formats before presenting questions that are weighted and structured to mimic the ABFM exam. This unique, cost-effective review tool is ideal for testing your knowledge in every area of family medicine and identifying areas that may require further study. 

• Offers nearly 1,100 multiple choice questions that follow the ABFM Exam blueprint—the best question-to-cost ratio of any Q-bank available for Family Medicine 

• Features dozens of new questions throughout, as well as more questions in the form of clinical vignettes, to mimic the evolving exam format  

• Provides an interactive eBook quizzing platform to test your knowledge online 

• Includes an atlas with clinical images and lab smears, reflecting the types of illustrations that are included on the exam 

• Contains additional reading suggestions for each answer, a Study Grid to help diagnose areas for improvement, practical test-taking tips from Family Medicine Residency Program directors, and highlighted key points throughout 

• Ideal for use with Dr. Frank J. Domino’s Fast Facts for the Family Medicine Board Review for a comprehensive board exam preparation experience

Contents

Preface vii
The ABFM Board Certification Process ix
ABFM Continuing Medical Education Requirements xiii
Preparing for the Examination xv
T est - T aking Skills xvii
Using This Book xix
CHAPTER 1 Adult Medicine 1
CHAPTER 2 Care of Children and Adolescents 124
CHAPTER 3 Care of the Female Patient (Including Maternity Care) 177
CHAPTER 4 Mental Health/Community Health 220
CHAPTER 5 Emergent and Surgical Care 253
CHAPTER 6 Care of the Elderly Patient 287
CHAPTER 7 Pict or ial Atlas 316
STUD Y GRID 341
INDEX 343
Contents