First Aid 2010 vs FA 2009/2008

[omarm]

Hello guys,
Did anybody notice any major changes or additions between First aid 2010 and the previous two editions.. 2009 or 2008!!
I have a limited time and can't go through a new First Aid, I'm using 2009!

Can anybody list some new additions from FA 2010!! We would really appreciate it .

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[vicinihil]

Comparing it to my friend's FA 2009 and it seems like they are ~95% similar with the exception of the addition of MORE images in 2010 than in 2009

 

[omarm]

Thanks for your reply..
Anything else other than images?? any new tables or new topics??
Appreciate your help a lot we are IMGs waiting for it but the 2010 FA will arrive to bookshops by the end of this month.. no time!!!
Thanks again

 

[go lakers]

Added more detail on pneumoconioses, a breast pathology diagram, stuff on healthcare payment in behavioral science.

 

[omarm]

Thank you go lakers, we appreciate you comments
Anything about pharmacology?? or significant add in micro!!
Thanks a lot guys..

 

[k87]

From what Ive seen, theyve just organized the date they previously had, ofcourse adding new pictures etc. And I saw few tables (similar to what they have in the kaplan books) and some info from UW in there. I guess if u do UW, ulll pretty much cover everything that the new FA has.

 

[omarm]

Thank you k87..
Yea, seems UW will always be the king !!! I'll do it thank you..

But there are many kaplan tables!!! which subject do you mean??
Thanks again

 

[k87]

Just go to barnes and nobles, borders, or ur med school library and check out that book and see for urself and decide weather its worth getting or not.

 

[omarm]

Thanks again k87
Unfortunately IMGs do not have barnes and nobles or borders.. you are lucky guys to have these bookshops
Even the med school library will only have it by the end of this month.. which is too late!!

Thanks anyways... you already helped a lot and we appreciate it a lot

 

[jojoshabadoo]

yea well we pay out the ass for all of it, inlcuding insane loans and tuition so dont go feeling too bad for yourself

 

[go lakers]

Thank you go lakers, we appreciate you comments
Anything about pharmacology?? or significant add in micro!!
Thanks a lot guys..

micro: expanded on red rashes of childhood by adding clinical presentations of rubella, measles, mumps, VZV, etc.

pharm: nada

 

[Rabbit Hole]

micro: expanded on red rashes of childhood by adding clinical presentations of rubella, measles, mumps, VZV, etc.

pharm: nada

According to a friend of mine, the herbal agents section has been completely excised from the general principles of pharmacology section of the book.

 

[Rabbit Hole]

Here is a list of new topics in First Aid 2010 from the DIT website:

Approximately 63 topics have been added to the 2010 Edition of First Aid, and DoctorsInTraining.com has been teaching most all of them for a least two years and some of them since we started in 2002! If you want to know what will be in next year's edition of First Aid, take the Doctors In Training Step 1 Review this year. We will tell you what is high-yield before anyone else!

Below are the topics added to the 2010 edition of First Aid for the USMLE Step 1:

Health Care Payments- pg 58
Piaget's stages of cognitive development- pg 62
Enzyme terminology- pg 95
Sorbitol- pg 104
Catecholamine synthesis- pg 107
Hartnup disease- pg 108
Glycogen regulation by insulin and glucagon/epinephrine- pg 109
Truncus arteriousus- pg 123
GI embroyology- pg 132
Kidney Embroyology- pg 133
E. Coli- pg 153
Red rashes of childhood- pg 180
Bugs affecting HIV-positive adults- pg 182
Bugs affecting unimmunized children- pg 183
Bug hints (if all else fails)- pg 183
Ataxis-Telaniectasia- pg 212
Erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR)- pg 225
Varicose veins- pg 273
Vascular tumors- pg 276 (also pg 385)
Antihypertensive therapy- pg 276
Digestive tract histology- pg 304
Aorta and its branches- pg 305
Molecular pathogenesis of CRC- pg 324
Physiologic Neonatal Jaundice- pg 326
Biliary tract disease- pg 328
Thrombogenesis (formation of insoluble fibrin mesh)- pg 340
Pathologic RBC forms- pg 342
Normocytic, normochromic anemia- pg 344
Nonhemolytic normocytic anemia- ACD- pg 345
Intrinsic hemolytic normocytic anemia- G6PD- pg 346
Intrinsic hemolytic normocytic anemia- PK- pg 346
Intrinsic hemolytic normocytic anemia- HbC- pg 346
Platelet disorders- pg 349
Hereditary thrombosis syndromes leading to hypercoagulability- pg 350
Leukemia vs. lymphoma- pg 350
6-Thioguanine- pg 360
Causes of mononeuropathy- pg 370
Myoclonus- pg 397
Dystonia- pg 397
Central pontine myelinolysis- pg 399
Recurrent laryngeal nerve injury- pg 399
Eye pathology- pg 417
Vestibular apparatus- pg 421
Differential diagnosis of brain lesions- pg 426
Epilepsy drugs- Tiagabine- pg 428
Epilepsy drugs- Bigabatrin- pg 428
Epilepsy drugs- Levetiracetam- pg 428
Huntington's drugs- pg 433
Erickson's stages of psychological development- pg 437
SNRIs- pg 453
Calculation of reabsorption and secretion rate- pg 458
Potassium shifts- pg 462
Glomerular disorders- pg 465
Composition of Semen- pg 478
Diagnosing disorders of sex hormones- pg 484
Most common causes of anovulation- pg 487
Breast pathology- pg 492
Tamsulosin- pg 497
Pneumocioses- pg 509
Bosentan- pg 514

 

[omarm]

micro: expanded on red rashes of childhood by adding clinical presentations of rubella, measles, mumps, VZV, etc.

pharm: nada

Thank you very much go lakers for your help and concern, wish you all the best

Here is a list of new topics in First Aid 2010 from the DIT website:

Approximately 63 topics have been added to the 2010 Edition of First Aid, and DoctorsInTraining.com has been teaching most all of them for a least two years and some of them since we started in 2002! If you want to know what will be in next year's edition of First Aid, take the Doctors In Training Step 1 Review this year. We will tell you what is high-yield before anyone else!

Below are the topics added to the 2010 edition of First Aid for the USMLE Step 1:

Health Care Payments- pg 58
Piaget's stages of cognitive development- pg 62
Enzyme terminology- pg 95
Sorbitol- pg 104
Catecholamine synthesis- pg 107
Hartnup disease- pg 108
Glycogen regulation by insulin and glucagon/epinephrine- pg 109
Truncus arteriousus- pg 123
GI embroyology- pg 132
Kidney Embroyology- pg 133
E. Coli- pg 153
Red rashes of childhood- pg 180
Bugs affecting HIV-positive adults- pg 182
Bugs affecting unimmunized children- pg 183
Bug hints (if all else fails)- pg 183
Ataxis-Telaniectasia- pg 212
Erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR)- pg 225
Varicose veins- pg 273
Vascular tumors- pg 276 (also pg 385)
Antihypertensive therapy- pg 276
Digestive tract histology- pg 304
Aorta and its branches- pg 305
Molecular pathogenesis of CRC- pg 324
Physiologic Neonatal Jaundice- pg 326
Biliary tract disease- pg 328
Thrombogenesis (formation of insoluble fibrin mesh)- pg 340
Pathologic RBC forms- pg 342
Normocytic, normochromic anemia- pg 344
Nonhemolytic normocytic anemia- ACD- pg 345
Intrinsic hemolytic normocytic anemia- G6PD- pg 346
Intrinsic hemolytic normocytic anemia- PK- pg 346
Intrinsic hemolytic normocytic anemia- HbC- pg 346
Platelet disorders- pg 349
Hereditary thrombosis syndromes leading to hypercoagulability- pg 350
Leukemia vs. lymphoma- pg 350
6-Thioguanine- pg 360
Causes of mononeuropathy- pg 370
Myoclonus- pg 397
Dystonia- pg 397
Central pontine myelinolysis- pg 399
Recurrent laryngeal nerve injury- pg 399
Eye pathology- pg 417
Vestibular apparatus- pg 421
Differential diagnosis of brain lesions- pg 426
Epilepsy drugs- Tiagabine- pg 428
Epilepsy drugs- Bigabatrin- pg 428
Epilepsy drugs- Levetiracetam- pg 428
Huntington's drugs- pg 433
Erickson's stages of psychological development- pg 437
SNRIs- pg 453
Calculation of reabsorption and secretion rate- pg 458
Potassium shifts- pg 462
Glomerular disorders- pg 465
Composition of Semen- pg 478
Diagnosing disorders of sex hormones- pg 484
Most common causes of anovulation- pg 487
Breast pathology- pg 492
Tamsulosin- pg 497
Pneumocioses- pg 509
Bosentan- pg 514

Many many thanks Rabbit hole, thats awesome you made it easier for everybody to check the added material as soon as we got the book..
Thanks a lot for your msg too... you did a great job
Wishing you all the best...

 

[sswang00]

Great info, thanks for the help!!

 

[whtdasheezy]

a friend of mine was showin me his 2010 FA pdf file. Comparing it my 2009 FA, (endocrine and GI section only) i saw a new entry on insulin and prolactin. Also saw a new african burkitts lymphoma high yield image in the "high-yield" section. Im sure there is more.

Ok, just saw the DIT website post, there is definitely alot more!

 

[Rabbit Hole]

Hello everyone...the Errata First Aid 2010 is up on their website now.

 

[deleted103644]

Might as well add a sort of correction - in "Key Associations" they list medulloblastoma as the most common brain TUMOR in kids, it's not. It's the most common primary brain malignancy, but astrocytomas are more common (usually pilocytic astrocytomas I believe).

Actually, they don't even say "primary", so mets might be up there as well (not sure how frequent they are in kids vs. primary, for adults mets are definitely the most common benign or malignant brain tumor).

EDIT: They do it again... Neoplasm (kids): 1. ALL 2. Medulloblastoma. They really need to put the word "malignant" in there somewhere.

 

[natureboy]

In the psychiatry chapter, numerous topics/subtopics that were bolded in FA 2009 are no longer bolder in FA 2010. I wonder if that was a mistake on their part or if those topics are less HY than they used to be...

 

[starkcrazy]

I have a 2009 version, planning to get 2010 soon. I read in another thread that there are errata in the renal high yield facts section of 2010 http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=709106

if so, could someone specifically post the errors?

 

[rishi718]

DOes anybody know why the took out the HIGH YIELD VIGNETTES intro part of each section from the 2008 FA, so now the 09 and 2010 ones dont have?

does anybody find these useful? useless? worth printing?

anybody have answer to post below about unbolding of psych section?

 

[omarm]

DOes anybody know why the took out the HIGH YIELD VIGNETTES intro part of each section from the 2008 FA, so now the 09 and 2010 ones dont have?

does anybody find these useful? useless? worth printing?

anybody have answer to post below about unbolding of psych section?

Well for me, I found them usefull!! However, you'll not be missing anything after reading each part! Well you can just read them so that you don't feel guilty!
good luck

 

[Rabbit Hole]

DOes anybody know why the took out the HIGH YIELD VIGNETTES intro part of each section from the 2008 FA, so now the 09 and 2010 ones dont have?

does anybody find these useful? useless? worth printing?

anybody have answer to post below about unbolding of psych section?

First Aid 2008 - "High-Yield Clinical Vignettes" intro at the beginning of each chapter.

First Aid 2009/2010 - "Classic Presentations" in the Rapid Review portion of the book.

I think they just reorganized the 2008 vignettes and put it in the rapid review section of 2009/2010.. the format is a little bit different but it is essentially the same. Probably makes it easier to "rapidly review" when it's all in one place.