Help! Help! Help! (COMLEX)

[Yasmina]

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Hey everyone...I will be taking Comlex I in June...

Many upper classman have suggested the First Aid and Step Up books (along with the green OPP book). I have the Step Up book and it seems soooo concise! Is the material in these books really sufficient to do well on boards OR should I be going through my lecture material???

Any suggestions on how to study will be appreciated!

 

[electra]

OMM review by Simmons. Number one section is the innervations. Know those like the back of your hand. Number two is sacrum, it's alweays huge on Step I. Know something about cranial (the dysfunctions, the holds).

Savarese questions. I think the book is worth the money just in questions. The more you practice, the more prepared you will be.

Micro made ridiculously easy. Xerox the charts and work on learning them. Remember that the "most common" is **usually** the most likely.

Katzung pharm review. I thought the pharm on Step I was really easy. It was all about classes and reactions. Anything with a weird reaction, you should likely know. The questiosn weren't "Which flurorquinolone?" but "which class (anti-virial, antimicrobial gram (-), antimicrobial gram (+), anti- fungal.

Don;t spend any more time or resources on biochem or genetics than are in First Aid or Step UP. There is little of these topics on the test. DO KNOW YOUR ANATOMY and YOUR NEUROANATOMY. The anatomy and OMM are hand in hand.

This test sucks overall. It's poorly written and there will seem to be more right answers than you need. Sometimes you need to take the question, get to the **real** stem and then put all the answers in and see what fits.

Good luck. I'm glad to say I have only one Step left of COMLEX at this point.

 

[Idiopathic]

Number two is sacrum, it's alweays huge on Step I.

Couldnt have been farther from the truth last June. I had one sacral Dx/Rx question out of ~750 total. Anatomy of lower leg and forearm was about the most high yield topic though (~40 questions).

I agree with what the poster said about Katzung, also, but I like the Lange Micro book (Levinson and Jawetz), and FA ended up being pretty disappointing, (although it is money for the USMLE).