COMLEX study materials?

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Can anyone recommend a list of books/study materials for COMLEX I?

 

[DragonWell]

This list, kindly posted by taus, is pretty much what I plan on using.

I learn well by drilling lists of questions, so I'll probably also add in Osteopathic Medicine Recall and Pharm Recall.

I also can't stand MMRS, so I'll be using my professor's book - Problem-Based Micro.

Review Books and Other Materials:
* Using ebay, half.com, amazon, etc for used copies will save tons of $$

• FA 2007 (or most current edition…comes out each December)
• Rapid Review Pathology (by Goljan)
• Goljan audio and slides (available in bootleg only)
• High Yield Behavioral Science
• High Yield Neuro (some sections are too detailed….but basics and pics are good)
• High Yield Cell and Molecular (1999 edition…new one has way too much bs detail)
• Rapid Review Biochem (way more succinct and clinical then Lippincott and co-authored by Goljan)
- alternatively: the Kaplan Biochem book by Hansen is excellent and by far the best of the Kaplan series....if you can get it cheaply….do it
• Lange Review of Medical Micro and Immuno by Levinson (only for Immuno section ~80 pages)
• Micro Made Ridiculously Simple (edition 3 is fine)
• Savarese OMT Review
• BRS Physio

Question Sources:

• Reference and/or write wrong answers or anything you were even remotely unsure ofFA
• use questions primarily as a learning tool and don’t worry about your % til near the test

Books:
• Robbins Review of Path
• Savarese (OMM)
• Kaplan Qbook
- this will sound nuts…but its worth it: the book is subject based (ie path, phys, micro, etc….so take an hour or so to go through this book and mark which system each question fits into within each subject….it will be worth it when you need system-specific q’s later

Computer Based:
• UsmleWorld (~2000q)
• Webprep: http://library.med.utah.edu/WebPath/EXAM/EXAMIDX.html

*purposefully not using Kaplans QBank… most questions do not represent the current style on the exam and are too minutia based…you will still get the benefits of Kaplan w/ Qbook

 

[ShyRem]

I've heard a bare minimum is First Aid (or StepUp), Savarese, and Goljan.

And of course a QBank of some sort. Word is USMLEWorld and Kaplan are both pretty good with loud voices on both sides stating theirs is better than the other.

 

[KateGia]

Can anyone recommend a list of books/study materials for COMLEX I?

If your status is updated and you are a premed.. then my suggestion is get first aid, annotate it during your first year. Buy either BRS or Rapid review for physio and path, and read those as you do each thing. Get flashcards too. You aren't going to "study" for the boards during first year. You're really just going to prepare your study stash, to make it easier during 2nd year.