Immunology Practice

[PNWisBest]

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Does anyone have advice on how to navigate Immunology? Specifically review books or practice sources? It's an overwhelming amount of material per lecture (sometimes up to 60 slides) and I'm having trouble condensing and figuring out the essentials. The clinical examples seem so far removed from how we built our knowledge base- at least in my testing situations. I did search the forum and track down a copy of the "USMLE Road Map- Immunology" but the question volume was quite low. Any advice would be much appreciated.

 

[W19]

Pretest Immunology

 

[68PGunner]

Does anyone have advice on how to navigate Immunology? Specifically review books or practice sources? It's an overwhelming amount of material per lecture (sometimes up to 60 slides) and I'm having trouble condensing and figuring out the essentials. The clinical examples seem so far removed from how we built our knowledge base- at least in my testing situations. I did search the forum and track down a copy of the "USMLE Road Map- Immunology" but the question volume was quite low. Any advice would be much appreciated.

Are you having trouble w/ the basic science or the minutiae when it comes to the disease and clinical presentation?

 

[PNWisBest]

Are you having trouble w/ the basic science or the minutiae when it comes to the disease and clinical presentation?

The minutiae- we learn the basic science but never practice it in a clinical sense, if that makes sense..

 

[68PGunner]

The minutiae- we learn the basic science but never practice it in a clinical sense, if that makes sense..

SketchyMicro is your best bet. I literally peruse through the details for each video. There's a pdf file for sketchy videos somewhere on the net. I then watch the video at 1.5 x speed. My third time is to watch the video at 2.0 x speed. At this third time, I already know the order that the picture is going to be drawn. When I study for an exam, I just pull up the sketchy micro pic and details from the professor slides in order to solidify the association. I always score 88-89%+ when it comes to disease dx and clinical presentation from this practice.

As for the basic science, it blows ball. Just go through it. Your brain will filter out what's important and what's not important down the line through repeated associations for stuff learned down the line.