BRS or High Yield

[erin682]

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What to people recommend for Biochemistry, high yield or BRS? I've found high yield for cheaper than BRS but I don't know how it compares. Any past experiences would be great.

 

[typeB-md]

it seems that high yield is almost a verbatim 'outline' of BRS. if you want a stand alone text, get BRS. if you want a great supplement get high yield.

basically HY = BRS - extra facts - practice questions

 

[SoulRFlare]

Lippincott is also a great one to have...If you're curriculum is like mine, you'll find all the major points/diseases/in-born-errors-of-metabolism that they talk about in class in Lippincott

 

[Sweet Tea]

i loved lippencott for biochem. 👍

 

[kate88]

i loved lippencott for biochem. 👍

I agree, lippencott is the way to go. great pictures/diagrams, just the right amount of detail. Plus, its in COLOR, which is a lot easier on the eyes 🙂

 

[uclacrewdude]

I agree, lippencott is the way to go. great pictures/diagrams, just the right amount of detail. Plus, its in COLOR, which is a lot easier on the eyes 🙂

dude, i think brs is published by the same company as lippencott ... which makes brs like the exact same info, minus all the bull****. why buy a textbook when you need a review book, you guys? plus, all the critical diagrams in brs are pretty clutch, and you have a good spread of necessary knowledge from their practice questions. go with brs.

 

[quideam]

yup, lippincott is awesome, and you can review w/ BRS. I used both, and I found that BRS didn't have enough detail for some of the course, but overall (when used w/ lippincott) was great.

 

[erin682]

So is lippincott's a review book or a text book? I've got a great text book already from undergrad (and I don't use it). What I need is a good review book.

 

[Man In The Box]

I think Lippincott makes a textbook. They make lots of review books including NMS, BRS, HY and the series that most people just call "Lippincott's" plus a few more. BRS biochem is great. The HY series is also good but has no questions. Working lots of questions is really a must for biochem if you want to have more than a superficial understanding of the subject. Go with BRS + lots of old test questions and either go to class or read the class powerpoints.

 

[SoulRFlare]

So is lippincott's a review book or a text book? I've got a great text book already from undergrad (and I don't use it). What I need is a good review book.

The lippencott book is soft-cover, and isn't much thicker than the BRS...so i'd say it's between a review book and a text. the nice thing about the new lippencott edition are the color pictures/figures as well as the clinical correlations. My advice is to get as many references as you can afford (buy used, get hand-me-downs) your only in med school once, and the more "angles" you can get on the material, the better...
It's funny--when i started med school, i thought i'd be mired in voluminous tomes, but while i do carry around a lot of books (most of the weight comes from the anatomy texts--rohan and netter are key btw), most of the suggested books for each committee are thin soft-backs. (lippencott biochem, or vander for renal) another good text to buy, though it's thick and expensive, but highly versatile (you buy this book and you have all of year one physio) is the boron and boulpep medical physiology...

 

[monstermatch]

Lippencott's for the Biochem course, First Aid for the shelf & step 1

 

[SoulRFlare]

I think Lippincott makes a textbook. They make lots of review books including NMS, BRS, HY and the series that most people just call "Lippincott's" plus a few more. BRS biochem is great. The HY series is also good but has no questions. Working lots of questions is really a must for biochem if you want to have more than a superficial understanding of the subject. Go with BRS + lots of old test questions and either go to class or read the class powerpoints.

The one I'm talking about is just called "Biochemistry" with the Lippencott name prominently displayed (a soft back book...not a graduate text)...high yield is good for board review, but it's too "outline format" for an MS1 course. I say go with Lippencott biochem, and if you can supplement it with BRS and HY, go for it.

 

[Ologist]

I'm using Lippincott & FA for Biochem. HY Molecular Bio for the other "biochem"ish stuff. Also might want to take a look at the Kaplan book.

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[omarsaleh66]

What to people recommend for Biochemistry, high yield or BRS? I've found high yield for cheaper than BRS but I don't know how it compares. Any past experiences would be great.

If i could do biochem over again i would have used lippincott and no text book.
Just lippincott and lecture notes, and master both. although BRS or Pretest would be good for questions. U gotta do questions.

gluck

edit: also the Underground Clinical Vignettes for biochem would be good too.