How much does First Aid change from year to year?

[dizzyorange]

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I want to buy this year's FA to use during my MS1 classes this upcoming Fall. Will the 2010 book be essentially the same book as this 2008 version?

Or should I try to get a used/beat-up copy for 2008 and get a clean copy of 2010 to make notes in?

 

[HIJay]

i am currently using 2005 FA to study for my usmle, the 2008 version does contain stuff not in my 2005 version, but it doesnt contain anything that i have never seen or dont know already.

when i first bought my FA during MS1, it was bc i wanted to annotate it along with my course notes and stuff, so thats a benefit for buying a FA early on.

every yr i think they add more stuff to FA, but it shouldnt be stuff that you never seen before from your classes. i think probably by 2030, FA will probably contain everything from every class, as each edition seems to get bigger and bigger

 

[doctorFred]

i think probably by 2030, FA will probably contain everything from every class, as each edition seems to get bigger and bigger

yeah. kinda defeats the purpose of FA in the first place.

to answer the original question, not much. errors are corrected, but new errors pop up, even on material that was correct in previous versions. i'm using the 2006 for this year's usmle.

 

[lilnoelle]

I hope it doesn't change much because I'm using the 2006 edition I bought a couple of years ago.

 

[HIJay]

i dont think the materials change, just they add more stuff to it! its becoming a freaking textbook!!

 

[Doctor Bagel]

I'm not planning on updating my 2007 edition. From what I've heard here, the changes are usually pretty minor.

 

[Powel6016]

Prob by 2030 everything will be high yield, haha

 

[HIJay]

and you have to know all the molecular bio of every disease as the human DNA mapping would be complete.

am i glad that im taking usmle now
...wonder if there was usmle 50 yrs ago, what qs they would ask?

 

[doctorFred]

and you have to know all the molecular bio of every disease as the human DNA mapping would be complete.

am i glad that im taking usmle now
...wonder if there was usmle 50 yrs ago, what qs they would ask?

how many liters of bile must be drained from the body to correct the humoral imbalances that lead to major depressive episodes?

and in 50 years, SSRIs will probably look as stupid to them as the above question looks to us.