Best NBME Review Text for Immunology

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My school does shockingly poor job of teaching immunology (we have still never been taught complement). We had immuno in the first year and now we are about to start microbiology. In the past, students have had so much trouble with the immuno concepts in micro because we get such poor instruction in it, so the administration has decided to offer an optional "review course" of immuno running alongside micro. Unfortunately, they are the exact same slides as the last time we learned it (still no complement). This class is optional and has no exam at the end, but we will be taking the combined micro/immuno NBME. Ive decided it would be more efficient to self-study during the daily 2 hours of class time allotted for this immuno course.

All that being said, what is the best text to semi-learn and review from? I am a big Anki fan, so I was thinking about using a more detailed text to read like "How the Immune System Works" and making decks out of something more to the point like a BRS text. Anybody have suggestions on a text or combination of texts for the situation?

 

[W19]

I think LANGE review of MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY and IMMUNOLOGY by Warren Levinson is a good book.... The immunology section is very condense (around 50 pages) and the book has more than 200 questions of Immunology... My school also does a poor job in Immunology and this book along with Kaplan questions saved my butt in NBME exam.

 

[OnePunchBiopsy]

I learned a lot from Kaplan HY lectures. I used them, Pathoma, FA, and Goljan to review basic immunology and i felt good overall.

 

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I think LANGE review of MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY and IMMUNOLOGY by Warren Levinson is a good book.... The immunology section is very condense (around 50 pages) and the book has more than 200 questions of Immunology... My school also does a poor job in Immunology and this book along with Kaplan questions saved my butt in NBME exam.

My significant other is also a med student and that book happens to be sitting on the bookshelf. Maybe I'll give it a try.

So does this micro/immuno shelf basically just cover immuno as it applies to micro or does it cover all aspects of immuno?

 

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I learned a lot from Kaplan HY lectures. I used them, Pathoma, FA, and Goljan to review basic immunology and i felt good overall.

I could see that. So far I feel like I have picked up quite a bit of immuno just from my early foray into path using Pathoma/Robbins/FA.

 

[W19]

My significant other is also a med student and that book happens to be sitting on the bookshelf. Maybe I'll give it a try.

So does this micro/immuno shelf basically just cover immuno as it applies to micro or does it cover all aspects of immuno?

I did immuno during MS1 so our shelf covered all aspect of immuno... Doing micro as MS2 now.