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Hey 🙂
I shared this with an old IMG - she found it helpful.
So.. I thought I'd share it with more student and doctors studying for the USMLE..
I got those words from one of the guys who tought biochemistry at Falcon's course.
"Memorizing all the minute details of thee pathways i not an efficient way to study for the boards. Instead, it is better to focus on the important details of each pathway.
Inputs and Outputs:
What is the starting material?
What are the products?
Are there required co-factors that are important?
How doe the pathway fit into the bigger picture of the metabolism?
Key enzymatic steps:
What is the rate-limiting step?
Which steps are regulated?
How are they regulated?
Know the enzyme, inputs, and output for these steps.
Diseases:
Which enzymatic steps have known genetic deficiencies causing the disease?
Which steps have other known dysfunctions causing disease (including co-factor deficiencies)?
What is the pathophysiology, the signs and symptoms, the inheritance, and the treatment of each disease?"
Keep working hard! you can do it!
I shared this with an old IMG - she found it helpful.
So.. I thought I'd share it with more student and doctors studying for the USMLE..
I got those words from one of the guys who tought biochemistry at Falcon's course.
"Memorizing all the minute details of thee pathways i not an efficient way to study for the boards. Instead, it is better to focus on the important details of each pathway.
Inputs and Outputs:
What is the starting material?
What are the products?
Are there required co-factors that are important?
How doe the pathway fit into the bigger picture of the metabolism?
Key enzymatic steps:
What is the rate-limiting step?
Which steps are regulated?
How are they regulated?
Know the enzyme, inputs, and output for these steps.
Diseases:
Which enzymatic steps have known genetic deficiencies causing the disease?
Which steps have other known dysfunctions causing disease (including co-factor deficiencies)?
What is the pathophysiology, the signs and symptoms, the inheritance, and the treatment of each disease?"
Keep working hard! you can do it!
