Best study material for ms1?

[jojo24]

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I'll be starting ms1 in a traditional curriculum. What are good books or qbanks that I should use in addition to the lecture material for my first year?

 

[bashwell]

I'll be starting ms1 in a traditional curriculum. What are good books or qbanks that I should use in addition to the lecture material for my first year?

Eventually you'll need FA and UWorld. But you don't really need these your first year. If you're really keen you could get FA now and use it alongside your lectures so you familiarize yourself with FA (you'll have to buy FA again when you're in dedicated), but otherwise I wouldn't really worry about getting any books. So many books and other resources are a waste of money, unless your curriculum is really bad or lacking somehow.

 

[LyMed]

I wouldn't buy any textbooks. What I always recommend to my students is to buy the newest First Aid, and follow along with your lectures. There will inevitably be some material in FA that you won't cover in class. In that case, just Wikipedia/Youtube/Google it and fill in the gaps with some notes. That's it!

 

[FindMeOnTheLinks]

Physiology by Costanzo, BRS physiology by Costanzo, BRS Anatomy, High Yield Neuroanatomy, High Yield Embryology, Kaplan Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics were the books I used and found helpful

 

[Styrene]

I'll be starting ms1 in a traditional curriculum. What are good books or qbanks that I should use in addition to the lecture material for my first year?

Never used a textbook during MS1. Just my two cents.

 

[sovereign0]

First Aid Organ Systems and First Aid Basic Sciences are great for M1 and M2. They do a good job of straddling the border between reference material (too much info) and review material (too little info).

Reference textbooks for M1 and M2, all you really need is Costanzo's Physiology and Robbins and Cotran for Pathology. As I said, these are references and are best used to solidify concepts that require more explanation.

Alternatively, Dr. Najeeb lectures is a good option for difficult Physiology. Pathoma provides a good outline of Path, but IMO is more geared towards board studying than first-exposure learning.

First Aid is board review material. Some people follow it along with their curriculum which isn't a bad idea, it's just not a primary learning source.

UWorld is a QBank that may be useful. Personally, I'm saving UWorld for dedicated and following my classes with Kaplan, which is basically like a QBank with highly detailed explanations.

 

[tyrsa]

Pathoma is great

 

[jcorpsmanMD]

Any books you guys would recommend if my exams are NBME?

 

[Styrene]

Any books you guys would recommend if my exams are NBME?

BRS series

 

[xClashx]

Only resources you will need: FA, Pathoma, Uworld, and maybe BRS Physiology (Rapid Review)

 

[Styrene]

My school uses customized NBME, and the only thing I used was uworld, USMLE RX Qbank (FA in q form), and the small group seminar case-based learning that we did like twice a week.

 

[mk2015]

I think it largely depends on the school and your learning style. I would also preface this by saying don't actually buy anything until you get started and decide how you are going to study and what you need - you may not need any outside resources.

My school uses instructor-written exams (as well as NBME for some blocks). There were some blocks where I found the material in the lectures was sufficient and others where I used quite a few outside resources.

Some of the things I found useful were:
Gray's Anatomy (I preferred the actual text over an atlas, but I also used the Netter atlas to an extent), Costanzo Physiology (I also used Guyton Hall Physio for some topics and review questions), BRS Series (mostly Physio, some Biochem, Gross Anatomy, Neuro, and Path), Robbins (+ Robbins Review), Pathoma, and FA. I thought some of the Dr. Najeeb videos were really useful (particularly for physio and neuroanatomy). I also occasionally used Junqueira's Basic Histology text to be useful on occasion, though I wouldn't recommend actually buying any histology text. I plan on starting USMLE Rx for systems and saving UWorld until a little later this year.

Clearly, I fall on the other side of the spectrum as compared to many of my colleagues. That's probably just because I discovered I retain information better when I see it in multiple iterations from different sources.

 

[TL34]

Sorry I don't agree with "Lyman", that philosophy goes against the Hippocratic Oath in medicine which is a dedication to a life time of learning and accepting on Professors teachings is wrong. After medical school and residency your learning does not stop. A doctor that does not promote some independent reading (learning) is not a doctor that thinks. I have to go with mk2015 and sovereign0 on their recommendations and add that the books recomended are great and add that their are others used and if the student finds those books easier to understand use them in addition to the class texts. Please remember that we are all students at whatever level we are at in medicine.

 

[NotASerialKiller]

Sorry I don't agree with "Lyman", that philosophy goes against the Hippocratic Oath in medicine which is a dedication to a life time of learning and accepting on Professors teachings is wrong. After medical school and residency your learning does not stop. A doctor that does not promote some independent reading (learning) is not a doctor that thinks. I have to go with mk2015 and sovereign0 on their recommendations and add that the books recomended are great and add that their are others used and if the student finds those books easier to understand use them in addition to the class texts. Please remember that we are all students at whatever level we are at in medicine.

Yeah a med-1 who doesn't kill herself studying from 4 textbooks on top of lectures is definitely going against the Hippocratic oath. You also seem to be arguing against the statement "You don't have to learn anything after med school", which nobody made in this thread. Strong first post...

 

[Lost in Translation]

Pathoma is great

+1

Once you have biochem out of the way, start using Pathoma as an adjunct to your regular lectures. Chances are he explains the topic 100% more clearly than your lecturers will. Pathoma starts with immunology and inflammation basics and goes from there.