Epilepsy Board Review

very helpful review.I wish the ILAE would stop changing the names... Jiminy jiminy...the questions are hard to answer correctly, but then the reviews and explanations given are excellent, many times, more complete and insightful than other sources.thanks guys.PS. I took the board a couple days ago. Reviewing the questions and answers, and looking it up in sources like Wyllies and the articles quoted, gives you an understanding of the subject.If you just want a shortcut, with questions and answers to memorize, then you may always feel that one question may have several diferent answers. Having used this book, and the Hospital Physician board review for epilepsy, and Wyllies and its 500 questions, and taken the GWU review course, and studied it all for the last year, I felt that I was prepared for the boards. There will be a new book comming out in Feb 2017, from the GWU guys, it should make for a good addition to the tool box to prepare for the boards.There are no shortcuts here, you need to study each item and be ready for the questions being aked in a vatiety of ways.Pradeeps book was super helpful, but more as a study guide than as a bank of old questions to just memorize. I will tell you, this book explains some concepts that for me were hard to grasp in other sources, like magnetic source imaging, polarity of eye movements, amplitude aEEG, and neuropsychological testing applications, to just name a few. But my advice is to get all the sources you can, and study all of them, and cross check, and by finding their errors ir disagreements you super-learn. There are just too many subjective opinions out there to get too hang up on a" correct" or "wrong" answer.

I think this book is excellent for the Epilepsy board.I graduated in 2011 and been in practice for several years. I read this book ( all of it)and read the comments. I indeed studied the comments and reviewed them few time. There is a lot of information to remember especially those gene names and the medications. You need to study those comments. NOT just solve the questions.I recommend this book highly.I also recommend taking the online questions on The AES. Make sure you study those comments.This book along with the AES website questions is all what you need to pass the board.Thank you for the authors and good luck.

I must thank the authors for putting together a first version of their book that will clearly help many readers preparing for their epilepsy board exam, but this book clearly needs revision! Many of the questions are poorly formulated and confusing and some of the "correct" answers are actually quite wrong. Authors ought to ask several epileptologists review the questions and answers and soon publish a revised and edited versions of their book. Otherwise, the book will leave the best reader simply annoyed many times. Having said this, the book is a great first attempt!!!

I used it and I passed. Has very good, relevant questions. As a word of advice for those who want to pass the ABPN's Epilepsy board - I would pair this with the "Epilepsy Board Review" by Koubeissi, and throw in the AAN's SAE on Epilepsy and a few select chapters from Wyllie's textbook.

This book has it's merits but it is not the best text for the ABPN Epilepsy Board Examination. As others have already stated it badly needs more editing. I recall questions about autosomal recessive conditions in pediatrics and inheritance of JME that are outright incorrect. The strength of this book is that the answers section to each chapter is nicely referenced. It's obvious the authors put a great deal of time into this and it is much appreciated. I actually learned a lot about MEG and QEEG from going through the references. The downside of using it as a text however is that topical information is scattered throughout the book. The major weakness is that the questions tend to be much more arcane than the actual Board exam and the format is not at all similar. For example, many of the questions are "all of the folllowing except" and "which of the following is not." There were very few, if any, of these question on the actual exam. The authors also chose a 4 answer (A-D) multiple choice format while the exam is 5 (A-E). If you want really good, Board style epilepsy questions, Get the 6th edition of Wyllie's Treatment of Epilepsy. The online version contains over 500 questions and it is much closer to the actual test format. I did pass the Epilepsy Board Exam, and this review helped, but my advice for anyone taking boards this year would be to wait for Epilepsy Board Review: A Comprehensive Guide by Drs. Koubeissi and Azar before you decide to purchase Dr. Modur's text.

I felt that this book was an invaluable part of preparing for the epilepsy board exam. Some of the questions were more challenging than others, at times quite difficult to choose the correct answer; however, the explanations were very thorough and provided a solid foundation to succeed on the real exam.

I liked this book in general. The question and answer format helps maintain focus while reviewing, and the answers are detailed and informative, and contain citations to more detailed texts. The format of the questions is less similar to the exam than I wanted - more EXCEPT-type answers and more focused on minutiae than the real test seemed to be. Still, overall this was a helpful study-aid in conjunction with more traditional textbooks and other online question banks. I do not think it would be sufficient on its own.

One of the best and if not the only fully comprehensive epilepsy board review resources on the market. I have done the epilepsy board a couple months ago and this book was my saving grace