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Apollo will be giving away Six (6) "USMLE Step 1 Total Audio Packages" and Six (6) "USMLE Step 2 Total Audio Packages" to 12 lucky members! Winners for each raffle will be drawn from among the members who post questions about the product or otherwise meaningfully contribute to the discussion on the Apollo Audiobooks USMLE-related forums. Step 1 Audio products will be raffled for posts on Step 1-related threads, and Step 2 Audio packages will be raffled for posts on Step 2-related threads. Each Total Audio Package is approximately a $350.00 value.


At Apollo Audiobooks, we have taken your feedback and reviews and combined that with our medical school experiences to create a comprehensive list of Best USMLE Books for Step 1 of the USMLE, complete with reviews of each book. As Apollo is not the publisher of the texts, we can provide you with a relatively unbiased review and rating of each. When we do have any "bias," we'll let you know in the review straight-up.

Read Reviews for the Best USMLE Books for The USMLE Step 1 Here

Here's a the short list of Step 1 USMLE Books Reviewed at the ApolloAudiobooks.com site:

The Best USMLE Books - Must Have Books for the USMLE Step 1

  • First Aid for the USMLE Step 1 2011
  • Clinical Microbiology Made Ridiculously Simple
  • BRS Pathology
  • Lippincott Pharmacology
  • And More...


The Best USMLE Books - Highly Recommended Books for the USMLE Step 1

  • USMLE Help Step 1 Biochemistry
  • USMLE Help Step 1 Anatomy Q&A
  • High-Yield Biostatistics
  • First Aid Q&A for the USMLE Step 1
  • Rapid Review Pathology
  • BRS Physiology
  • First Aid Cases for the USMLE Step 1
  • And More...

The Best USMLE Books - Other Great Recommended Books for the USMLE Step 1

  • USMLE Step 1 Recall
  • Lippincott Biochemistry
  • Clinical Neuroanatomy Made Ridiculously Simple
  • Clinical Pharmacology Made Ridiculously Simple
  • High Yield Gross Anatomy
  • High Yield Embryology
  • And More...


In order to view the complete list and read all the reviews of Best USMLE Review Books for the USMLE Step 1 - please visit ApolloAudiobooks.com.
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Using the Best USMLE Books-Step 1 Discussion Forum

1. Feel free to discuss any of the USMLE Books-Step 1 Discussion Forum Review Programs found at ApolloAudiobooks.com or discussed in this forum thread.

2. Have you used any of the review programs listed on the Apollo site? Leave your feedback! Tell us, other students, and the rest of the world what you thought.

3. RAFFLE: The USMLE Audio raffle prizes are discussed at the top of this thread. Check out these SDN forum threads to learn more about the raffle prizes: The USMLE Step 1 Total Audio Package & The USMLE Step 2 Total Audio Package.

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5. Most of all, Join the Apollo Email List!

At ApolloAudiobooks.com our opt-in email subscribers get some of the best benefits on the web! These include:
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Would these still work if I listened to them while going to sleep? or while doing other chores? OR is it really necessary that you are looking at a book/ taking notes while listening for the information to sink in?
 
purple pearl said:
Would these still work if I listened to them while going to sleep? or while doing other chores? OR is it really necessary that you are looking at a book/ taking notes while listening for the information to sink in?
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You should use the USMLE Audio both ways
1. while doing chores and other tasks and
2. while sitting with a book open in front of you and taking notes. I did both.


You will find that when you listen to the audio while doing tasks, chores, or even going to sleep that you will retain information each time you go through the program. When I was in medical school that is exactly what I did. A strange thing that happened was that I could remember exactly what I was doing when I would remember a part of the audio. That is to say, if I listened to congestive heart failure while vacuuming the office. I would remember vacuuming the office while recalling factoids about Heart Failure.

Listen to this Free Podcast from the Medical Mastermind community in which I am interviewed by Dr. Dan. There is a lot of info about using audio in medical school for both active and passive learning.

The podcasts are:

Time Management and Study Techniques
&
Gold Standard USMLE


Can I Learn While Asleep?

Unfortunately, the answer is no. You can learn while going to sleep, but not while actually asleep. I've tried it. See the "Using USMLE Audio to Learn Q&A for Students Here"


Sitting with a book open and using USMLE audio

Retention of USMLE audio material is indeed maximized when you are in a quiet place focusing only on the USMLE audio or the USMLE Audio along with a printed text and/or taking notes. The more engaged you are and the more senses you can stimulate the more you will retain. When the USMLE exams were getting closer, I would simply go to a quiet room and turn on the audio with or without a book/notes open to really focus on the audio.

Wishing you USMLE Success!

www.ApolloAudiobooks.com

ApolloUSMLE
 
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Do the audiobooks come with an actual book to follow along with? I saw in the previous post that you said it should be done with a text. How many hours of audio is there? Is it all high yield?
 
DoctaJMa said:
Do the audiobooks come with an actual book to follow along with? I saw in the previous post that you said it should be done with a text. How many hours of audio is there? Is it all high yield?
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DoctaJMa - Currently none of the USMLE Audio Reviews actually come with a book to follow. However, there is a PDF electronic copy of a Reference Manual for Gold Standard Step 1 and books are available for the USMLEHelp Audio reviews - sold separately by the publisher. In short, here's how the USMLE Audio Reviews break down:


USMLEHelp Audio USMLE Reviews

  • Each Apollo USMLE Audio Review that is based on a "USMLEHelp" book is an unabridged audiobook version of the textbook. The textbooks are not included with the audio (thus we name them "Audio" reviews or "MP3 Audio"). However the textbooks can be purchased from Amazon via any of the program listing pages found at Apollo's USMLE Audio Title List Page Here.


Gold Standard USMLE Audio Reviews - Step 1, Step 2, and Foundations of Medicine

  • Gold Standard Step 1 USMLE Audio - this does come with a 300 page "Reference Manual" in electronic PDF format included with the audio that follows the USMLE Audio review fairly closely. You can take notes in the margins and "reference" some of the hard-to-remember material. Also there are some essential diagrams like the brachial plexus. This is NOT a word-for-word transcription, but an outline format of the topics covered in the majority of the audio.
  • Gold Standard Step 2 USMLE Audio and Gold Standard Foundations of Medicine USMLE Audio - currently there is no text or book or PDF that accompanies these programs. At Apollo Audiobooks we are working to fix this deficiency by having real medical students transcribe all of the audio into a working transcript that can be used for future program updates or to create a text for students. This project is ongoing. You can Learn More about the Gold Standard Medical Student Transcription Project Here. So for now, these two programs are without printed material.


Wishing Everybody USMLE Success!

http://apolloaudiobooks.com/index.php

Stark
 
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Can you speed the lectures up?
 
Do most of your students/customers utilize this in conjunction with their classes or is it "more catered" just to fast and quick Step 1 studying
 
IntelInside said:
Do most of your students/customers utilize this in conjunction with their classes or is it "more catered" just to fast and quick Step 1 studying
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Students have reported using Apollo's USMLE Audio Reviews in both situations. However, most students prefer to get the programs early and use them throughout medical school to fill up their "down time" at the gym, commuting, walking the dog, et cetera. Those same students then focus more time on the audio reviews as the USMLE approaches.

I would equate students' use of the USMLE Step 1 and USMLE Step 2 Total Audio Packages, in some ways, to the way that First Aid for the USMLE Step 1 is used. As a resource, the sooner you are familiar with First Aid for the USMLE Step 1, the sooner you have a framework of knowledge upon which to build your USMLE Study program. While First Aid does not contain every bit of minutia that you will be tested upon in your classes, it contains many of the high-yield topics. Thus, if you go through First Aid with your classes - you will be more familiar with it and more prepared to use when "cramming" for the USMLE.

The same goes for Using Apollo's Gold Standard or Total Audio Packages. If you start listening to them casually, or when sitting to study, or when you just can't sleep - you grow more and more familiar with the material. This helps you with your classes and in prep for the USMLE. Thus you are more prepared to use the material in your USMLE "cramming" when the time comes.

In general, in medical school classes, each professor has their favorite set of minutia upon which they like to test students. There is no way that either Apollo's USMLE Audio Reviews or First Aid could read the minds of the professors at every med school - so you are stuck with your notes or videos or audios from your classes as an essential resource to pass those exams.

Wishing You USMLE Success!

http://www.apolloaudiobooks.com

ApolloUSMLE
 
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