Step I behavioral science- first aid (step1)

[atropinedoc]

Hey guys, is the first aid enough to answer the q`s on step 1 or do you need some other review book? 😕

 

[theodore]

No, it s not enough. But I don t know any book that would be enough. The Kaplan Q bank seemed very close to the real thing for me, and some qs were close to being repeats, but I still hit rock bottom in behavioural, so don t take this for granted.

 

[Santiago]

Originally posted by atropinedoc
Hey guys, is the first aid enough to answer the q`s on step 1 or do you need some other review book? 😕

Beh Science is a big headache.None of the sources seem adequate though BRS still is the best.If you are an IMG you def need to brush beh scence coz that's the one thing in which all IMG's get screwed royally.There's this ethics website link I am pasting below which helped me a bit..

http://eduserv.hscer.washington.edu/bioethics/toc.html

Hth.

 

[Smurfette]

I used High-Yield Behavioral Science and First Aid for it and that was more than enough. The patient communication/ethics type questions are what are tough, so check out Q-bank's explanations on those as well as the section in High Yield. ( These are the "patient comes in with blah-blah-blah going on...what do you say/do next" questions. ) Review developmental landmarks and defense mechanisms too. Symptoms of intoxication and withdrawal of the different drug categories are also worth looking over.

Our school recommended to us that we use High-Yield B.S. for our quick review (it's a one day read, unlike BRS) and everyone I know had B.S. as one of their best sections. Don't sacrifice studying for other subjects to overload on the B.S. questions. The majority of B.S. questions are NOT psychiatric in nature, so don't spend time memorizing DSM-IV criteria (they never give you that much info in the questions to be able to check off criteria. Pick the obvious choice for the psychiatric disorder questions, you'll be right 95% of the time).

 

[Global Disrobal]

I took my step 1 a loooooooong while ago (year and a half) but I too used High Yield and Q-Bank for Beh Sci and it was enough. I agree that First Aid is not enough.

On a side note, I thought First Aid was enough for Immuno and Micro.

Good Luck

 

[Renovar]

It's not enough but I think HY+1st aid+QB is good enough.

Just know everything in 1st aid cold, there were so many sensitivity and specificity and positive predictive value questions on my test it isn't funny. And so many "what would you do if _________" questions