Indeed. I'm just a first year, but our tests so far have contained a great deal of knowledge application questions. Do you need to memorize some things? Absolutely, but you are going into medicine, and the human body cannot just be conceptually understood at every level. Learning conceptually still helps a great deal, but you need to supplement with memorization of important facts. I just don't get how people think that "oh I'm a smarter student who's only focused on the big picture" aka Step 1 and "real clinical practice" when 1. so many schools have shown that preclinical grades are associated with Step 1 scores, and 2. these students are preclinical medical students with NO idea what it takes to be a successful doctor. How can you possibly know what material is most important at this stage? I think the best route is to actually eat a slice of humble pie, realize that you are just an upcoming student, and do your best to understand and learn the material presented to you even if it means you have to sacrifice some time to extra studying for memorization of some of those details that may seem unimportant now. If you want to supplement your studying with review resources, go ahead, but don't skip out on what you are being taught.
Finally, there really isn't that much info in a review resource compared to a preclinical course. I just looked through first aid section for Biochem (we have our final on Friday) and there's like 50 pages of material. Even if this is all the high yield great details, that seems like a tiny amount of information compared to the >2000 slides of class material we have. I don't care if you know FA cold, you are not going to ace a class exam covering all that other information if you don't study it as well, so why would you expect a different result and then come onto SDN complaining about it?
(on an unrelated note, our exams are NBME questions, but I bet that those who learn the in-class material well will still do better than those who just focus on the HIGH YIELD concepts, which will be an interesting data point in this whole conversation).