Do we need to know the FAB Classifications for Lymphomas and Leukemias?

[surfdevl02]

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Do we have to know the FAB classifications for lymphomas and leukemias (M1, M2, M3, etc...) on pg 236 of First Aid for Step I? I keep looking at this chart on this page and it confuses me more every time. Also, for those that have taken the exam, how much were antibiotics stressed on it? Thanks!

 

[Row Jimmy]

Do we have to know the FAB classifications for lymphomas and leukemias (M1, M2, M3, etc...) on pg 236 of First Aid for Step I? I keep looking at this chart on this page and it confuses me more every time. Also, for those that have taken the exam, how much were antibiotics stressed on it? Thanks!

No FAB ?'s on my exam and I am glad b/c I didn't bother to memorize them.

AB's were certainly on my exam and the questions were quite detailed. I found Pharm and Micro questions to be the most specific questions on the exam I had. FA and Q-Bank was enough BUT every word is important.

RJ

 

[smgilles]

Do we have to know the FAB classifications for lymphomas and leukemias (M1, M2, M3, etc...) on pg 236 of First Aid for Step I? I keep looking at this chart on this page and it confuses me more every time. Also, for those that have taken the exam, how much were antibiotics stressed on it? Thanks!

I had to know M7 on my exam, so I would know them. In the Kaplan course we were told to know M3, M5, and M7 being they are the most heavily tested on.

 

[katieb]

At least know M3 (promyelocytic, the one with the most Auer rods).

 

[DHMO]

None on my exam, but like others have said, it's probably worthwhile to know M3, M5, and maybe M7.
I thought the pharm and micro sections were definitely the most straightforward parts of the exam. For my exam, you didn't need to know all the side effects of the drugs--just the distinctive side effects. I think that list of side effects at the end of FA pharm is money--memorize that.

 

[Ramoray]

dude that chart is absolutely ridiciulously bad in FA, if its the oneim thinking of from my 04 eidtion. It is so confusing to me i crossed it out and just put a page number to a Robbins page that had a summary page of the FABs and each one in a nice clear manner. If you havef robbins just look it up in the WBC chapter and use that one page as a chart. some times the **** they choose to add to FA is ******ed, if indeed this is the same chart we are thinking of

 

[4CDirect]

Romoray, do you have the page in Robins? Thanks much! I find the FA chart useless myself, but doesn't know of another source until your post.

 

[DW]

I would maybe glaze over it, but if you don't have it memorized entirely, don't spend a lot of time doing so. It seems much like HLA types, you may be looking at a couple questions tops out of 350. I did not get a single question on either topic, but I new some of the big ones along with all the chromosome translocations, et cetera.

 

[idq1i]

Romoray, do you have the page in Robins? Thanks much! I find the FA chart useless myself, but doesn't know of another source until your post.

670, 671, 688, 693

 

[4CDirect]

670, 671, 688, 693

I have Robbins 6th Ed. The FAB table is on pg 676, if anyone cares. Thanks all the same! 🙂