Library of the Health Sciences - Urbana

Below are instructions for accessing a variety of online resources with practice questions. This information is also available on our Exam Review Handout in a printable format.

Harrison's Online Self-Assessment & Board Review

Contains over 800 online multiple-choice questions. You can test yourself online, view your score, the answers, and linkouts to the chapters within Harrison's Online that provide coverage of the topics.

To access this resource:

1. Select AccessMedicine.
2. Select Harrison's Online.
3. At Lower Right of Screen, Select Self-Assessment.

Lange Educational Library

This section of AccessMedicine contains approximately 30 online full-text review books covering the basic sciences and clinical medicine.

To access this resource:

1. Select AccessMedicine.
2. In the center of the screen, view the listing of the review books.
3. Select the discipline you need and link out to the full text.

USMLEasy.com

This resource contains about 3,000 practice questions for both Step 1 and Step 2. It also contains about 300 questions for Step 3. The questions can be answered online, with immediate scoring and links to answers/explanations.

To access this resource:

1. Select AccessMedicine.
2. Select LANGE Self-Assessment Tool at the lower middle portion of the page.
3. At the login pop-up screen, link to "Sign up for a Free Personal Account".
4. Use the ID/password you established to login to Self-Assessment Tool. You may need to select the LANGE Self-Assessment Tool link from the main page a second time.
5. Select USMLE Step 1 (lite) or Step 2 (lite) or Step 3 (lite).
6. Select Practice Exams.
7. Select the type of test you wish to take, the number of questions, etc.

Ebrary - PreTest Series

Ebrary is an online library of over 25,000 full-text books across all disciplines. Many of PreTest books are available through ebrary.

To access this resource:

1. Select ebrary.
2. You will need to download the ebrary reader to view the books. If it is not already installed on your computer, you will be prompted to do so.
3. In the simple search screen type "pretest" and click the Search button.
4. Alternatively on the advanced screen type "examinations, questions" (or just "questions") as a subject word. Adding a subject in an additional subject box (i.e. obstetrics) will help narrow down results.
5. On the results page, click on the title of the book to view the contents. There is a menu bar at the top which provides options for paging forward, searching the text, and highlighting passages.

William's Obtetrics Study Guide
Online Self Assessment

Contains over 2,600 online multiple-choice questions and answers. You can test yourself online, view your score, the answers, and linkouts to sections of AccessMedicine that provide coverage of the topics.

To access this resource:

1. Select AccessMedicine.
2. Select William's Obstetrics.
3. At Lower Right of Screen, Select Self-Assessment.

AccessSurgery - Board Review

Online multiple choice questions derived from Schwartz's Principles of Surgery: Self-Assessment and Board Review and from Surgery Review Illustrated.

To access this resource:

1. Select AccessSurgery.
2. From the grey menu bar in AccessSurgery, select Board Review.

Exam Review Books

The Library owns and actively collects exam review books across various disciplines. To see a list of exam review books owned by the Library of the Health Sciences-Urbana:

1. Select the Exam Review Books.
2. Select a specialty area. Note that USMLE materials are located in the MEDICINE category.
3. View a list of the recently-published books owned by the Library in that category.
4. Click on the call number to check availability through the Library's catalog, UICCAT. Through the catalog entry you will see the availability of the item (whether or not it is currently checked out). You can also use the catalog to request items from other sites or place Save Requests on those books that are checked out to other users.