I've got more detail on this in another post and with so many separate posts on this topic in the last few days that I run the risk of cross posting anyways, but here goes:
Step 1: Pathoma along with its respective book, the latest Kaplan MedEssentials as well as a 6 month subscription or more to USMLE World(I believe that this is the minimum to get one free reset to go through the whole thing again) when you've gone through your first year of school will help you with your NATIONAL shelf exams and get you ready for the Step with a good chance of passing in the 80th percentile or above depending upon how many times you can go through them. Get the PASS Program Clues for free on FlashCardExchange.com and Quizlet.com and know them by heart. PP Clues, Clues, PASS or any derivation of the above and a particular exam subject should be enough to find the good stuff.
Teachers:
Goljan: Great teacher that is still at the top of his game and teaches for Falcon and OSU. His classes and materials are golden and often expensive and the most stolen. There are transcriptions of his lectures available if online through Google if you want to skip listening to them. If you had to choose one book by him, it would be the newer Biochemistry book since Pathoma will prep you best for Pathology:
http://www.amazon.com/Rapid-Review-...8871/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1343509135&sr=8-3
Fisher: Incredible MIND that will keep you engaged with the material that he keeps the entire Kaplan Medical program he's in charge of alive with. His classes and materials are also golden and much of it has new editions out this year and improve greatly on items released even in the last 2 years. Kaplan, as we all know, is horribly expensive. He's been involved in the editing of all of these in one way or another:
Step 1:
http://www.amazon.com/medEssentials...=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1343509431&sr=1-2
Steps 2 and 3
http://www.amazon.com/Kaplan-Medica...=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1343509234&sr=1-2
http://www.amazon.com/Master-Boards...=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1343509234&sr=1-1
Sattar: Provides Pathology review through his Pathoma series in the most accessible format; PowerPoint with great histology slides and clear voice-overs that one can access from almost anywhere for around $100. If you could gold-plate this guy's white-board sessions, you still won't touch the value of them and he practically gives his program away for nothing. Limits on lecture views are far more reasonable than other programs and often are reset for you if you don't abuse the system:
http://www.pathoma.com
Pesta: Class notes from his Surgery lecture series are available in most Kaplan Surgery materials printed over the last few years and will really solidify the information for you.
Dishonorable Mention:
Francis Ihejirika: One of the greatest people ever to teach medicine to all levels, unfortunately that is saddled with an entirely corrupt school (P.A.S.S.) that lost its way years ago.
DIT's Jenkins: How many posters have you seen that did DIT and/or used FA/SU2S2 and didn't get the results they wanted? There is a new post almost every single day about this on SDN, you have to accept there must be a fundamental flaw with one or both parts of this combination, so I can't recommend either one. You can have a study partner call you 10 minutes before you're supposed to start studying and 10 minutes after you're supposed to stop every day if you really need a method to maintain focus. I bet you won't even spend $7, definitely nowhere near $700, especially if you use Skype. Have your friend ask you what topics you studied that day, what you found the most interesting, what lunch was like and how the afternoon went then quiz you on a few things for a while and you'll be shocked at the results without listening to that famous DIT-J 'remixed' voice butcher the material.
Have a great weekend!
