Step I is 'microbiology made ridiculously simple' enough?

[Dire Straits]

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people tell me to study this book and the microbio section in FA. do you think this will cover enough microbiology info for step1?

 

[ZigZag]

people tell me to study this book and the microbio section in FA. do you think this will cover enough microbiology info for step1?

I think it is more than enough.

 

[streetdoc]

i like the last 40+ pages of the lange text (exam and board review). it hits the microbes and deficiencies and has some questions....it was a paper weight all semester, so i might as well use it now.
streetdoc

 

[CUBuffsgrad98]

You dont even need to read MBMRS. Just look (and memorize) the charts at the end of each chapter of that book. Combine that with FA and that is plenty. Make sure you look at those charts though, as there is some info in the charts that isnt in the text. Good luck!

 

[bababuey]

Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[caribsun]

no u need to read MMRS thats what i've heard because it has mnemonics throughout.

 

[streetdoc]

You dont even need to read MBMRS. Just look (and memorize) the charts at the end of each chapter of that book.
Yeah, i hear understanding is not important on the USMLE... 🙄

Don't believe everything you hear!
streetdoc

 

[chicamedica]

read the micro section in FA in addition to micro made rid simple. There are some points in FA that are not mentioned in the latter. With those 2 you'll be set.

 

[Harrie]

yes! I also supplemented with bug card review every other night for 30 min.

 

[Hercules]

You dont even need to read MBMRS. Just look (and memorize) the charts at the end of each chapter of that book. Combine that with FA and that is plenty. Make sure you look at those charts though, as there is some info in the charts that isnt in the text. Good luck!

I would recommend against this. Read MBMRS because (1) it's such a quick and easy read and (2) it has some of the best mnemonics I've ever seen. As a fading 4th year student I can still recall with perfect detail a lot of those cartoons. I think I would know more about medicine as a whole if the first two years could have been exclusively textbooks in cartoon format like MBMRS!

 

[CUBuffsgrad98]

You dont even need to read MBMRS. Just look (and memorize) the charts at the end of each chapter of that book.
Yeah, i hear understanding is not important on the USMLE... 🙄

Don't believe everything you hear!
streetdoc

Im not sure if streetdoc feels looking at a diagram of a bug being shot out of a cannon contributes to "understanding", but if you truely want to understand it, then there are several 1000+ pages of micro texts you can use for understanding. For the USMLE though, I read MBMRS, micro cards (which I thought were very good), FA, knew the charts cold from MBMRS, and had the Kaplan lecturers come to our class and video Kaplan online. I can tell you all you really need, especially if pressed for time, are those charts from MBMRS and FA. No way of saying for sure, but I dont think I missed a single micro question. If you want to add to it, I recommend micro cards, nice little clnical vignettes, and well organized info on them.

However, if the pictures help you in MBMRS help you (and they do for a lot of people) then make sure you look those over. A crude drawing of a bug getting run over by a car never helped me or contributed much to my understanding though. Im sure you will do well with however you prep, and good luck!

 

[north2southOMFS]

You dont even need to read MBMRS. Just look (and memorize) the charts at the end of each chapter of that book.

Yes but then it wouldn't be rediculously simple. It would be rediculously boring.

 

[CUBuffsgrad98]

Yes but then it wouldn't be rediculously simple. It would be rediculously boring.

haha, but ridiculously short and effective too.....by the way, I dig your picture with Napoleon Dynamite

 

[streetdoc]

Im not sure if streetdoc feels looking at a diagram of a bug being shot out of a cannon contributes to "understanding", but if you truely want to understand it, then there are several 1000+ pages of micro texts you can use for understanding. For the USMLE though, I read MBMRS, micro cards (which I thought were very good), FA, knew the charts cold from MBMRS, and had the Kaplan lecturers come to our class and video Kaplan online. I can tell you all you really need, especially if pressed for time, are those charts from MBMRS and FA. No way of saying for sure, but I dont think I missed a single micro question. If you want to add to it, I recommend micro cards, nice little clnical vignettes, and well organized info on them.

However, if the pictures help you in MBMRS help you (and they do for a lot of people) then make sure you look those over. A crude drawing of a bug getting run over by a car never helped me or contributed much to my understanding though. Im sure you will do well with however you prep, and good luck!

i know what you are getting at, CUBuff, but this poster may have no background or a lacking background and would spend countless hours strictly memorizing random facts. it will go much faster and stick better if there is a frame to put that stuff in. that's all i was saying....
best of luck to the OP!
streetdoc