Originally Posted by medicinednh09

thanks. i did usmleworld, kaplan q bank, and usmle rx. i didn't finish any of the three, but i tried to rotate them so that i could get a good range of question types and difficulty. i found usmle rx much more helpful in the end, as it solidified my knowledge of First Aid. For practice exams, I just used NBME. For books, i liked the following:

Lippincott's biochemistry
Clinical microbiology made ridiculously simple
Costanzo's physiology
How the Immune System Works (i forget the author, very short and good background)
First Aid as main book
High Yield Embryology
BRS review series Neuroanatomy

I can't remember the rest right now, but those were the main ones. Essentially, I found that having a thorough understanding (i.e. reading the entire lippincott's biochem book) was better for me than using outline-based review books.