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New Resource - AMBOSS!
What is AMBOSS?
AMBOSS is a comprehensive study tool designed to support your USMLE and COMLEX preparation. It offers an extensive library of medical knowledge, 8,600 Step practice questions with explanations that are linked to the library, and tools to enhance test-taking, such as Attending Tips and Key Info Highlights.
AMBOSS is a comprehensive study tool designed to support your USMLE and COMLEX preparation. It offers an extensive library of medical knowledge, 8,600 Step practice questions with explanations that are linked to the library, and tools to enhance test-taking, such as Attending Tips and Key Info Highlights.
How to access AMBOSS:
- First, create your PCOM AMBOSS account.
- After creating your account, you can login using the PCOM AMBOSS Login.
- Enter your PCOM email address, including the @pcom.edu
- Click “Log in through Institution.”
- Note! If you experience problems logging in, contact AMBOSS Customer Support.
How to access AMBOSS question banks:
- Log into AMBOSS
- Click Qbank
- Click New Custom Session
- Select your exam

USMLE
- Official USMLE siteInformation about the exam, preparation, scores, transcripts, practice tests, and more.
PCOM Exam Preparation Databases - USMLE Step 2
- AMBOSSAMBOSS is an online platform designed to help medical students and professionals prepare for board exams. It offers a comprehensive medical knowledge library, which includes detailed explanations of medical concepts, clinical scenarios, and high-yield facts, and tips for test-taking strategies and exam format insights. If you need help accessing or setting up your account, contact AMBOSS Customer Support at hello@amboss.com.
- BoardVitalsBoardVitals is an online platform that provides practice questions and study resources for medical professionals preparing for board exams, certification, and licensure exams in various specialties. It offers question banks, detailed explanations, and performance analytics for exams in areas such as internal medicine, surgery, psychiatry, pediatrics, and many others. BoardVitals is widely used by medical students, residents, and practicing clinicians to help improve knowledge retention, test-taking skills, and exam performance. The platform is designed to be a comprehensive study tool for those aiming to pass their medical exams and maintain certification. Click "Register" at top right upon access to register for a free account with your PCOM email.
- Draw it to Know It - USMLE / COMLEX - Step 2Draw it To Know It is an interactive online educational platform that teaches foundational scientific concepts, particularly anatomy, through interactive drawing tutorials, accompanied by narrations and self-testing exams, enabling users to learn medical and biological sciences effectively. This module includes-seven modules covering topics seen on the USMLE / COMLEX 2 board exams.
- ExamMasterExamMaster is an online platform designed to help students and professionals prepare for medical and healthcare certification exams. It offers a range of study tools, including question banks, practice exams, and detailed explanations, covering subjects like medicine, nursing, pharmacy, and dentistry. ExamMaster allows users to simulate real exam conditions, track their progress, and focus on areas where they need improvement. It is widely used by medical students, residents, and healthcare professionals to prepare for board exams, licensing exams, and other assessments. Includes question banks for USMLE Steps 1-3, Certification Review Series, PANCE/PANRE Certification Review, and NAPLEX Pharmacy Review/Supplemental Medical Sciences for Pharmacy. To create an account and access content, contact the Library eResources Librarian, Jim Panacio.
- Thieme MedOne Education USMLE® ResourcesThieme MedOne Education USMLE® Resources is an online platform offering a collection of high-quality educational resources designed to help medical students prepare for the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE). The platform includes textbooks, study guides, practice questions, and multimedia content across various medical topics relevant to the USMLE, such as anatomy, physiology, pharmacology, and pathology.
Test-Taking Strategies for the USMLE STEP 2 Exam: Proven Methods to Succeed by Julia I. Reading
ISBN: 9781264258758Publication Date: 2023-01-12Build the test-taking skills you need to ace your coursework and USMLE exams. The very first resource of its kind, this innovative resource helps you build the skills specifically required to pass the first two years of coursework and the USMLE exams. Test-Taking Strategies for the USMLE Step 2 walks you through the process of how to generally approach questions, how to approach specific types of questions (i.e., those with labs or images), and how to review questions and their answers.Thieme Review for the USMLE®: a WIN for Step 2 and 3 CK by Manoj Gurung; Yayra Musabek
ISBN: 9781626239258Publication Date: 2021-03-26A one-stop board prep for acing the USMLE® Step 2 and Step 3 CK exams. Allopathic and osteopathic medical students preparing for the USMLE® Step 2 and 3 CK or COMLEX-USA Level 2-CE and Level 3 will benefit from this must-have study guide.The Radiology Survival Kit : What You Need to Know for USMLE and the Clinics by Hayet Amalou, Robert D. Suh, Bradford J. Wood
ISBN: 9783030843656Publication Date: 2021This textbook provides a basic introduction to radiology and imaging along with the minimum required knowledge written from a practical clinical perspective. Presenting essential definitions and critical images, this textbook offers key references in a welcomed concise format, targeting medical students and interns undertaking the USMLE and house staff of any specialty desiring a resource for practical and useful information relevant to and including medical imaging of common diseases and conditions.General Pathology Student Guide : With AMBOSS Shortcuts by Jessica Claus, Linda Corey Hanley, Joyce Ou
ISBN: 9783662679623Publication Date: 2024The General Pathology Student Guide was developed ‘by medical students for medical students' for use in preparing for their pathology course, shelf exams and medical licensing exams. In cooperation with American Educators from Brown University, this book was adapted to the American Curriculum for the USMLEs. The book combines high resolution histological images with condensed related clinical information, and is linked to the AMBOSS learning platform (subscription required), giving access to regularly updated online content, helping students reinforce and deepen their knowledge. The book chapters cover the most relevant basics of pathology, such as infectious diseases, immunopathology, cellular adaptation, and pathologic regeneration. Each chapter includes selected histology slides that show classic findings; these are presented uniformly across chapters to emphasize a stepwise approach to tissue findings and classic disease presentations.The histopathology is displayed in different magnifications and with descriptions, to help students recognize classic patterns of common disease processes. Key histopathologic findings are further integrated with pathophysiology and high-yield clinical knowledge, including imaging, treatment, and clinical outcomes, closing the loop from structure to function to patient impact. This system-based approach highlights pathology's interdisciplinary connections and the impact of the histopathologic diagnosis on patients.This concise volume is ideal for learning and understanding high-yield general pathology concepts in a short period of time. It can be also used as a guide for microscopy in histology slides. This makes learning effective!
PCOM Exam Preparation Resources - General
ScholarRx
ScholarRx is a modular learning platform designed to support medical education with interactive content and assessment tools. It helps medical students study and review essential topics through flexible, structured units. Note! ScholarRx is available to DO M1 and M2 students, only, who will receive an email with login instructions at the start of their M1 academic year.
ScholarRx is a modular learning platform designed to support medical education with interactive content and assessment tools. It helps medical students study and review essential topics through flexible, structured units. Note! ScholarRx is available to DO M1 and M2 students, only, who will receive an email with login instructions at the start of their M1 academic year.
AMBOSS
AMBOSS is an online platform designed to help medical students and professionals prepare for exams like the USMLE (United States Medical Licensing Examination). It offers a comprehensive medical knowledge library, which includes detailed explanations of medical concepts, clinical scenarios, and high-yield facts, and tips for test-taking strategies and exam format insights.
AMBOSS is an online platform designed to help medical students and professionals prepare for exams like the USMLE (United States Medical Licensing Examination). It offers a comprehensive medical knowledge library, which includes detailed explanations of medical concepts, clinical scenarios, and high-yield facts, and tips for test-taking strategies and exam format insights.
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- Draw it to Know It - USMLE / COMLEX - Step 2
- Draw it to Know It - USMLE / COMLEX - Step 3
- ExamMaster Best Bet
- LWW Health Library - Board Review Series Best Bet
- LWW Health Library - Premium Pharmacy Best Bet
- Thieme MedOne Education USMLE® Resources
PCOM Exam Preparation eBooks - General
First Aid for the Medicine Clerkship, Fourth Edition by Matthew S. Kaufman; Latha Ganti; Dennis Chang; Alfredo J. Mena Lora
ISBN: 9781260460629Publication Date: 2021-02-05Hundreds of high-yield topics you'll find on the shelf exams and the USMLE Step 2 CK. Reviewed by medical students who aced the clerkship NEW diagnostic algorithms, as well as expanded content on medical management, pathophysiology, and diagnosis and treatment NEW content on core areas, including ophthalmology, renal and acid-base disorders, and ambulatory medicine NEW full-color images, illustrations diagrams, and flow charts Summary boxes highlight high-yield information needed for exam success.
USMLE Resources - Limited Availability
PCOM provides limited, one-time access to select UWorld eresources for M2 and M3 students in the DO program. Contact your instructor or department chair for more information.
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