The MedMaster Mission

The increasingly massive body of medical information is a leading frustration of medical students and other health professionals: "There is too much to know and not enough time to learn it." MedMaster has a remedy:

MedMaster publications carefully select the material that is most clinically relevant to the medical student and other health professionals. Certain information in the basic sciences may be important to the basic scientist but not important to the clinician. MedMaster publications focus on information that is important for the clinician and strives to present it in a brief and interesting manner that gets to the point, thereby saving the student much time, eliminating information that is not clinically helpful and emphasizing information that is clinically relevant.

Humans, unlike computers, are much better at remembering concepts than at rote memorization of isolated facts. Moreover, by first focusing on concepts, and thereby obtaining an overall understanding of the subject at hand, it becomes much easier to learn and recall important individual facts. MedMaster books provide such a conceptual view, offering understanding rather than just isolated facts.

Medical students of course need reference texts, but there is also a great need for the smaller book that provides the student with a clear conceptual understanding of the subject as a whole, along with those clinically relevant facts that are important to learn. MedMaster provides this. MedMaster's conceptual books differ from other small books which do not attempt to weed out functionally relevant information from clinically relevant information, and differ from books that simply provide isolated facts for rote memorization in order to pass exams. The small conceptual books that MedMaster publishes look beyond simply passing the next exam. While useful for exam and Board review, they also seek to impress the concepts, knowledge, and understanding that the student needs to become an excellent clinician.

There is a brief window of several months in which the student wants to rapidly review material in preparation for the USMLE, NCLEX and other Board exams. MedMaster provides a different sort of book for such Board review. MedMaster's books, Medical Boards Step 1 (and Step 2 and Step 3) Made Ridiculously Simple and NCLEX-RN Made Ridiculously Simple, provide the most rapid and efficient way to review for these exams. Although crammed with information, these books not only have very few words and can be read quickly, but are arranged in charts. This enables the student to cross-reference information on a page and thereby more quickly attain a solid organization of a large body of facts.

MedMaster was founded by Stephen Goldberg MD in 1979. A graduate of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, he subsequently trained in Neurology, becoming Board certified in Ophthalmology and Family Medicine as well. As a faculty member (presently Professor Emeritus) at the University of Miami School of Medicine, in both the Family Medicine and Cell Biology/Anatomy Departments, he has been involved in the education of medical students and residents for 25 years. Dr. Goldberg has received the George Paff Award for Teaching Excellence at the University of Miami School of Medicine eleven times since its inception in 1985. He has authored a number of titles in the MedMaster series and has worked with other authors in an editorial capacity. His first book, Clinical Neuroanatomy Made Ridiculously Simple has sold over 350,000 English edition copies. MedMaster books are used by numerous students within and outside the United States and have been translated into a number of languages (Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese, Chinese, Greek, Turkish, Bulgarian, Polish, Hungarian, Korean and Farsi).

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