biochem: high-yield

[kellysmith]

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this book seems pretty skimpy to me. is it really enough to go through this book (and FA) together? brs or the lippincott seems so much more complete....

 

[Dukes]

this book seems pretty skimpy to me. is it really enough to go through this book (and FA) together? brs or the lippincott seems so much more complete....

I didn't like this book too much. As you said it is pretty skimpy. I read all of BRS which was pretty good but not the greatest. I felt BRS's clinical correlations throughout the book were rather weak but it wasn't nearly as hard to get through as Lippincott. After reading BRS I read selected sections in HY which I found somewhat useful as a last minute (last week) review. So basically I think HY as the primary source (especially if you are weak in biochem) isn't enough. It's really a quick review book if you have a good background in the subject. All in all I'd say BRS is the way to go. This is just my personal opinion and there isn't a great consensus out there in what to study when it comes to biochem. Lastly I'll say that I didn't get a whole lot of biochem on step I which I took in June. What does everyone else think?

 

[Brian Pavlovitz]

I concur with Dukes: My Step 1 had literally only a couple "straight" biochemistry questions (like irreversible steps in a pathway); the rest was more pathology based. I only used FA and Lippincott's (Lippincott's is pretty long, but that was what I used when I first began studying about 5 weeks before).

Good luck!

 

[Hawk22]

I thought that the Kaplan notes in Biochem were the best thing I saw/used, with the Lippencott book a close second. I used larger, more comprehensive books for biochem because I was especially weak in this area and ended up having it be one of my stronger scoring areas.

I highly recommend that you sniff around for a used copy of the Kaplan notes. I think they were excellent.

 

[ys]

I used FA and High Yield Cell and Molecular Biology and some of HY biochem, found the above resources easy and good enough for step 1. Good luck.