kaplan videos

[baraa123]

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hey guys

what kaplan videos u think it's must to see ?
not just for usmle -LN will be enough for that - , but for excelent understanding of the materials and gives good integrations of the principles
i want Internal medicine , so the basic sciences is very important
i heard that : biochem & pharma is invaluable
any suggestions ?

 

[Phloston]

I never used the Kaplan videos. I wouldn't say they're necessary. However other people on this forum will chime in and tell you which ones they liked...

 

[ijn]

I used the Kaplan videos (and Pathoma) as my primary study resource. You can't really go wrong with them.

 

[JoshSt]

hey guys

what kaplan videos u think it's must to see ?
not just for usmle -LN will be enough for that - , but for excelent understanding of the materials and gives good integrations of the principles
i want Internal medicine , so the basic sciences is very important
i heard that : biochem & pharma is invaluable
any suggestions ?

The pharm, microbiology and immunology videos are excellent, most of the physiology videos are great, biochem is very good, biostats videos are very excellent but long, the anatomy/histo/embryology videos are mediocre and pathology videos are mostly bad.

Overall, these videos take commitment as they are quite long if you watch all the lectures. They are definitely not necessary but if you take the time to watch and understand them, they are very good.

All that being said, make sure Pathoma is your #1 video source. Pathoma>>>>>>anything else.

 

[stronghold]

do you need to watch them if you have the kaplan lecture notes? or there are additional info in those videos?

 

[CDI]

I'm not on Phloston or ijn's level but...I'll share my opinion since I did give Kaplan a fair shot. (I haven't yet taken my exam...so take this with a grain of salt.)
I'm a few years removed from pre-clinical so I used physio, biochem and immuno from Kaplan - strictly as a refresh.

These are subjects I felt some real understanding would've helped, and certainly wouldn't hurt. Everyone says pharma is probably the best one but I stuck to FA for that, since in the end it's just memorization and I assumed the Qbanks would cover that well enough. I feel that they do.

After completing those 3 subjects, I felt like my retention was too low though and I couldn't make the connections needed when doing UW even if I had understood the material. In other words (for me) it just took too long and I needed something more condensed. That being said I have a friend who just read Kaplan LN 3 times, with only a cursory glance of FA and managed to get a 260+ in the end. It comes down to how you prefer to study.

I think if you've just finished second year you really don't need them. However, Pathoma is awesome.

 

[baraa123]

thanks alot doctors for your opinions

 

[RIPSanto]

Is this thread referring to kaplan high yield videos?

 

[JTster]

Hi Guys,

Some help here. I have the Kaplan 2010 Pharmacology book and plan on using it. Do you think it is much different from the 2012 or 2013 version?

Thank you!

 

[by604]

any other opinions on these vids?

 

[Daodejing]

any other opinions on these vids?

watch em if you have em and have the time. skip path, and focus on step-relevant material for micro.

 

[tonberry]

Is there a kaplan teaching schedule floating around somewhere, or do we just pick a subject and run it cover to cover?

 

[Mattinthehat250]

Is this thread referring to kaplan high yield videos?

Yeah I have the same question. I keep seeing references to kaplan videos and not sure if people are talking about the high yield course videos or the longer more in-depth videos.