for those who bought MedEssentials - online part?

[pepotonoto]

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Some very old posts about this but what exactly does the online portion of medessentials offer? Questions any good? Was it worth it? Was it free with purchase?

I wanted to use this because I could not find an indexed organ system breakdown of the original 2008 lectue notes (I have the blue ones from a friend.) Unless it's somewhere in one of the books. I can use the index for each book book but figured medessentials would be a good read after completing the subjects except for path and some micro (subbing in CMMRS for some parts)

I am talking about this :
http://store.kaptest.com/catalog/templates/product.jhtml?PRODID=kprod9781427797162&rcid=T00200000

This isn't a substitute for first aid but more for a review of the kaplan notes while/after going through them subject wise. It seems easier than re-reading all those pages again!

 

[pepotonoto]

I'm still curious about the other online part with medessentials as mentioned in the first post. Any other comments are welcome too! It's arriving today! 😉

 

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[pepotonoto]

Well the book itself is great! I think the ones who will find it most useful are those doing something from kaplan already. It's perfect after going through the kaplan lecture notes. The first half highlights all the basic science stuff, and the latter half goes through all the organ systems. All the sections are divided and organized well. ~500pgs.

Most of the sections are taken from the lecture notes itself and feature all the important points, so it's perfect for revising rather than re-reading the enormous stack of lecture notes again.

It's a good resource for those using/studying kaplan. I'm not saying it's a substitute for first aid, but more like a recap of what you read from the kaplan lecture notes.

The online part is somewhat silly. You have this grid of subjects and disciplines. They have random (high/low yield) topics that are presented in Q&A format (not usmle style from what I saw) , labeling/matching and some corny games. Some scattered topics, but they have have explanations to the answers. So I wouldn't recommend the online thing. You can see for yourself if you're still curious.

Stick to the kaplan lecture notes and questions at the end of each chapter/qbook+ question bank and you can slap on this book to review as a 2nd or 3rd pass revision of your kaplan notes.

 

[confuse]

Don't know about the online part but the book is great. What I do is unbind FA and Medessential. Before I read over a section in FA, I compare against Medessential and take out the pages with graphs and charts from MedEssentials that explains FA better or make up for what FA misses and put them together.

 

[msundi83]

The medessentials book it more indepth and better organized than first aid in my opinion. It doesn't have many tricks to help you remember stuff, but I use it alongside first aid. The online part has potential, but the exercises are low yield and many of them don't have explanations so if you don't get why the questions are wrong you have to dig through the book. Kinda annoying. I'm not using the online part anymore.