For those that have already taken it, how many nutrition/vitamin questions? Theres a pretty dense chapter in rapid review biochem and I just don't know how in depth we need to know this...
How high yield is nutrition???
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I haven't taken step 1 yet, so I really can't speak from experience... but, I believe Goljan's exact words in the mp3's were "don't blow it off." He gave the impression that it was pretty high yield. Of course, those tapes are from a while ago, so I don't know if this is still true. In terms of RR biochem, I didn't learn all the details, but annotated important stuff (focused on margin notes) into RR goljan/FA. I'm hoping it'll magically come to me in the next few weeks 
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I don't know that you have to labor through all of the small details provided in Rapid Review about trace minerals (other than copper and Wilsons). I would definitely know the fat soluble vitamins (A, D, E, K) and what happens when they're lacking/in excess, which vitamin is deficient in breast milk (D), what the K dependent clotting factors are, and what deficiencies with the B vitamins look like and when you'd find them (pelagra for niacin, Wernicke's with B1/thiamine, certain drug interactions with B6, et cetera). It was a few weeks ago (hopefully getting score tomorrow! 😱) but I had at least 3 straight nutrition questions not counting those in hematology related to megaloblastic and iron deficiency anemias and all of the stuff about vitamin D and calcium in endo - which was fairly high yield on my test between the parathyroid glands, intestines, liver, and kidney!
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Not that high yield. Focus on manifestations of deficiencies (and overdose in some cases), and memorize the malnutrition dz. Good luck!
