Online Exam Review Materials
Below are instructions for accessing a variety of online resources with
practice questions.
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:
Click Here.
Then click the "Take a Test Now" button.
Lange Educational Library
This section of AccessMedicine contains approximately 40 online full-text review books covering the
basic sciences and clinical medicine.
To access this resource:
- Select
AccessMedicine's Textbooks Section.
- Scroll down the screen, view the listing of the review books.
- 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:
- Select
AccessMedicine's Self-Assess Section.
- Select USMLEasy.com from the top portion of the page.
- At the login pop-up screen, link to "Sign up for a Free Personal Account".
- 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.
- 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:
- Select ebrary.
- 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.
- In the simple search screen type "pretest" and click the Search button.
- 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.
- 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: Click Here.
Then click the "Take a Test Now" button.
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:
- Select
AccessSurgery's Assessment Home Page.
- Click the link to "sign in" to take a test.
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:
- Select the
Exam Review Books.
- Select a specialty area. Note that USMLE materials are located in the MEDICINE category.
- View a list of the recently-published books owned by the Library in that category.
- 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.
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