Have many of you heard of many people NOT using BRS Phys? Is it really that necessary?


How about for Pharm and using ONLY First Aid + Qbank?

yeah, you're pretty much describing me. i've prepared using first aid, qbank, and my actual lecture notes. i'm not a big fan of review books in general and never used them during my first two years though. i don't feel like i'm missing out on anything by not using BRS - there's only 12-14 hours a day i can study and stay sane, and BRS wouldn't have fit in with first aid and qbank.

yeah, you're pretty much describing me. i've prepared using first aid, qbank, and my actual lecture notes. i'm not a big fan of review books in general and never used them during my first two years though. i don't feel like i'm missing out on anything by not using BRS - there's only 12-14 hours a day i can study and stay sane, and BRS wouldn't have fit in with first aid and qbank.


I mean...

you're using your syllabus? Why? Well, if you really know it then fine, but otherwise I would imagine in any case that it would be better to do BRS; if you are confident enough that you can use the syllabus, you might as well rely on what Castanzo has decided are the most board testable concepts. I was frustrated w/ BRS phys because I have gone through it once, and then went through qbank respiratory phys and found massive discrepency between the two sources and decided qbank is likely more accurate.

The whole process is so frustrating because I only want to do the most high yield things. BRS phys is something that you can read as many times as you want and still miss little things here and there so I was really wondering if I could just do without another read through.

I mean...

you're using your syllabus? Why? Well, if you really know it then fine, but otherwise I would imagine in any case that it would be better to do BRS; if you are confident enough that you can use the syllabus, you might as well rely on what Castanzo has decided are the most board testable concepts. I was frustrated w/ BRS phys because I have gone through it once, and then went through qbank respiratory phys and found massive discrepency between the two sources and decided qbank is likely more accurate.

The whole process is so frustrating because I only want to do the most high yield things. BRS phys is something that you can read as many times as you want and still miss little things here and there so I was really wondering if I could just do without another read through.

It just depends on your lecture notes too. I'm not a lecture note kinda person, I'm using review books, but for resp phys, our pathophy class had some really great graphs, all of which showed up on Qbank.

You can read physiology as many times as you want, nothing beats doing questions on it though - its the only way the material and all its details sinks in, and from what other people say they rarely test pure phys concepts. Everytime I got a phys question with some chart/concept I was weak in, I would write it in the BRS and FA.