This title includes 1000 board-type question that build confidence and get you ready in the least possible time! No other book prepares you for the Ob/Gyn shelf exam and Ob/Gyn-related questions on the USMLE Step 2 as efficiently and thoroughly as this one! "LANGE Q&A[trademark]: Obstetrics & Gynecology" gives you 1000 USMLE-format questions, covering all subjects on the shelf exam and Ob/Gyn sections of the USMLE Step 2. You also get correct answers to each question, and detailed paragraph-length explanations for answers, right or wrong! This review book in the popular "LANGE Q&A[trademark] series" offers unparalleled assistance for those preparing for the USMLE Step 2 and the Obstetrics/Gynecology shelf exam. It includes comprehensive Practice Test for accurate self-assessment and simulation of the exam experience. This title is a time-effective tutor for Obstetrics & Gynecology sections on the USMLE STEP 2 AND the Shelf exam. "LANGE Q&A[trademark]: Obstetrics & Gynecology" is the most comprehensive, authoritative, and up-to-date review available. This complete, timely review helps you: build confidence with 1400+ USMLE Step 2-type questions; evaluate your areas of strength and weakness Learn more in less time; review one subject at a time, for focused attention where you need it most Use Q&As to improve your recall of female reproductive anatomy, histology and pathology, embryology, genetics, and teratology Reinforce your knowledge of physiology of reproduction, maternal physiology of pregnancy, normal labor and delivery, and abnormal labor and delivery; master material you need to know in surgical obstetrics, newborn assessment and care, and clinical endocrinology; update your understanding of contraception, infertility, gynecologic and breast oncology, and other common gynecologic problems; be ready for any Ob/Gyn topic on the actual exam; and, excel in the Ob/Gyn clerkship, using this review as a study guide!

This resource calls on head teachers to create a viable, sustainable school culture using the professional community, organizational learning and trust to affect teaching and learning. This addition to the Leadership for Learning series presents an Intensification of Leadership approach that integrates teachers, parents, and community members into a coherent team. The authors examine schools that have achieved lasting cultural change and present practical strategies for: "diagnosing and shaping a school culture "revising leadership functions to broaden the decision-making processes "rethinking organizational structures "supporting continuous improvement while ensuring stability

School-based professional community is a concept that portrays teachers as working together towards a set of shared goals of improved professionalism for themselves and increased learning opportunities for students. Attempts to put this into practice in urban schools in the United States have met with varying degrees of success. Using case studies, the contributors to this book examine the reasons for this inconsistency, focusing on the structural, social and human relations conditions of schooling.

This resource calls on head teachers to create a viable, sustainable school culture using the professional community, organizational learning and trust to affect teaching and learning. This addition to the Leadership for Learning series presents an Intensification of Leadership approach that integrates teachers, parents, and community members into a coherent team. The authors examine schools that have achieved lasting cultural change and present practical strategies for: "diagnosing and shaping a school culture "revising leadership functions to broaden the decision-making processes "rethinking organizational structures "supporting continuous improvement while ensuring stability