Alvah R. Cass – författare

Since 1975, the Oklahoma Notes have been among the most widely used reviews for medical students preparing for Step 1 of the United States Medical Licensing Examination. Completely revised and updated, these new editions of the Notes feature: More self- assessment questions, geared to the current USMLE format; more tables and figures to promote rapid self-assessment and review; low prices; and coverage of just the information needed to ensure Boards success.

Since 1975, the Oklahoma Notes have been among the most widely used reviews for medical students preparing for Step 1 of the United States Medical Licensing Examination. Completely revised and updated, these new editions of the Notes feature: More self- assessment questions, geared to the current USMLE format; more tables and figures to promote rapid self-assessment and review; low prices; and coverage of just the information needed to ensure Boards success.

There are five separate sections to this book, and they are arranged in a logical sequence. Section One covers normal phenomenology of human behavior, including issues of learning and growth and development. Section Two addresses the theories of human development (which has implications for problem behavior) as well as the psychosocial issues in health care delivery. The latter are those issues that clearly are not psychopathology, but which represent problems in health care delivery that physicians encounter in the no~mal practice of medicine. Section Three is an overview of psychopathology in both children and adults, and Section Four deals with the diagnosis and treatment issues involved in various forms of psychopathology and problems of living. Section Five is the overview of the different systems of health care delivery and the incidence/prevalence of different health care problems. This is a review text and should not be substituted for more complete texts. The authors do not recommend that this book be used as a course text except in those academic offerings that are specifically directed to an overview of the behavioral sciences and psychiatry. To use this book effectively, the beginning student should begin with the first section and progress through the text in a systematic fashion. For the more advanced student, e. g. a psychiatric resident, the basic information in Sections One and Two might be skipped, and the resident could proceed directly to Sections Three and Four.

Oklahoma Notes / Behavioral Sciences, second edition, is a review and study guide suitable for second-year medical students preparing for the National Board of Medical Examiners, foreign medical school graduates preparing for the Foreign Medical Graduate Examination in the Medical Sciences (FMGEMS), and students preparing for the Medical Sciences Knowledge Profile (MSKP), as well as interns and residents preparing for certification examinations. Like the first edition, Oklahoma Notes / Behavioral Sciences, second edition, covers normal phenomenology of human behavior; theories of human development and psychosocial issues in health care delivery; psychopathology in children and adults; diagnosis and treatment issues connected with both psychopathology and the problems of living; and different health care delivery systems and the prevalence of different health care problems. The second edition offers substantive updating and expansion in several areas, specifically, DSM-III-R terminology, psychopharmacology, growth and development, and psychosocial issues.