Benefit: The PBL organization complements how most instructors are teaching clinical content within the integrated curricula. (Format is similar to the successful case-based format of Korf)

* brief 5-10 page chapters cover core subjects followed by review questions.

Benefit: The brief chapters allow the student to focus on what is important without having to sift through extraneous information.

* a medical student wrote all end-of-chapter review questions after sitting the USMLE Step 2 exam.

Benefit: Questions are targeted at the exact information that will be included in questions on the USMLE exam.