According to this blog: https://blog.hsl.virginia.edu/karen/?p=361 it's recommended, while others find it to be a waste of time.
I just started studying for the Step 1 with plans to take it in June/July. I have the newest 2013 copy of First Aid in a 3 inch binder. I'm trying to stick to key resources because I find anymore can become a distraction (E.g. First Aid, UWorld, Rapid Review, Kaplan Qbank, etc.).
I'm particularly confused about Pathology. During the school year, I used Rapid Review from Goljan and watched Pathoma videos. I found Rapid Review to be more useful for the school exams, but Pathoma to be an absolutely vital learning tool for understanding the material. I also would occasionally listen to Goljan audio if I had the time, but mostly avoided it since I enjoyed Pathoma more.
Now that I'm sitting down to study for the Step, I'm at a crossroad where I'm not sure how to attack Pathology. I have not yet purchased UWorld. I am currently subscribed to Kaplan Qbank and was hoping to get at least 60-70% of it done before moving onto dedicated UWorld. Still not sure if this is wise or not.
Having already gone through Pathoma and marked up my Rapid Review book and made it an excellent Path resource - I'm now listening to Goljan audio with First Aid open and Rapid Review open next to it - and I find myself drawn to annotating First Aid with Goljan's lectures. The key points from each Pathology are already in First Aid, but he mentions additional details or points. Obviously, I'm not going to copy RR into First Aid word for word, but I mean First Aid does leave out some details from RR. For example, when discussing Aortic Aneurysms, it's mentioned in RR in the small blue wording the clinical manifestations, while this isn't mentioned at all in First Aid.
Basically, I'm confused about how much to actually annotate. I keep hearing/reading that "First Aid is enough! It has everything that's necessary to know for the exam!" So, I'm concerned that if I start annotating, I'll just make the book a bloated resource with extraneous info not necessary for the exam. On the other hand, I see First Aid as just a resource with just enough points with no tying them together so I feel it necessary to annotate and explain.
Or should I just say, "**** it" and stick to Rapid Review for pathology since that's been my go-to book for Pathology for the past few months? Argh, so confused.
I just started studying for the Step 1 with plans to take it in June/July. I have the newest 2013 copy of First Aid in a 3 inch binder. I'm trying to stick to key resources because I find anymore can become a distraction (E.g. First Aid, UWorld, Rapid Review, Kaplan Qbank, etc.).
I'm particularly confused about Pathology. During the school year, I used Rapid Review from Goljan and watched Pathoma videos. I found Rapid Review to be more useful for the school exams, but Pathoma to be an absolutely vital learning tool for understanding the material. I also would occasionally listen to Goljan audio if I had the time, but mostly avoided it since I enjoyed Pathoma more.
Now that I'm sitting down to study for the Step, I'm at a crossroad where I'm not sure how to attack Pathology. I have not yet purchased UWorld. I am currently subscribed to Kaplan Qbank and was hoping to get at least 60-70% of it done before moving onto dedicated UWorld. Still not sure if this is wise or not.
Having already gone through Pathoma and marked up my Rapid Review book and made it an excellent Path resource - I'm now listening to Goljan audio with First Aid open and Rapid Review open next to it - and I find myself drawn to annotating First Aid with Goljan's lectures. The key points from each Pathology are already in First Aid, but he mentions additional details or points. Obviously, I'm not going to copy RR into First Aid word for word, but I mean First Aid does leave out some details from RR. For example, when discussing Aortic Aneurysms, it's mentioned in RR in the small blue wording the clinical manifestations, while this isn't mentioned at all in First Aid.
Basically, I'm confused about how much to actually annotate. I keep hearing/reading that "First Aid is enough! It has everything that's necessary to know for the exam!" So, I'm concerned that if I start annotating, I'll just make the book a bloated resource with extraneous info not necessary for the exam. On the other hand, I see First Aid as just a resource with just enough points with no tying them together so I feel it necessary to annotate and explain.
Or should I just say, "**** it" and stick to Rapid Review for pathology since that's been my go-to book for Pathology for the past few months? Argh, so confused.
