Latest Consensus on BRS Physio for Step 1 Prep

[sharklasers]

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Necessary to go through the entire book during dedicated time, or is that superfluous?

I'm sure at the very least, I would use it for reference on things I might not understand from First Aid/UWorld, but I'm just wondering if its necessary to dedicate time every day to read BRS Physio.

Planning out a study schedule seems almost as daunting as taking the actual exam 🙁

 

[Phloston]

Don't go through BRS Physio during dedicated study time.

It's fine as an adjunct text during the MS1/2 school years, but during prep-time, you need to focus on memorizing FA and doing thousands of practice questions. Done deal.

I read BRS Physio and it didn't particularly help me for my exam. The vast majority of the physio questions on the real deal are answerable based on pure intuition. They're mostly arrow-questions.

 

[FIREitUP]

I would say only use BRS to clarify something you don't understand in FA, but I do agree with Phloston that it is too in depth and has a lot of extraneous details.

 

[Bouddha]

Don't go through BRS Physio during dedicated study time.

It's fine as an adjunct text during the MS1/2 school years, but during prep-time, you need to focus on memorizing FA and doing thousands of practice questions. Done deal.

I read BRS Physio and it didn't particularly help me for my exam. The vast majority of the physio questions on the real deal are answerable based on pure intuition. They're mostly arrow-questions.

Phloston, what do you mean by arrow questions?

 

[Charlie Hustle]

Phloston, what do you mean by arrow questions?

They'll give you a clinical scenario and ask you how various physiological parameters will change compared to a normal patient.

For example, they might give you a patient who was just started on a diuretic that acts on the ascending loop of Henle (they won't tell you it's furosemide), and they'll ask you to pick which answer choice reflects the changes in the patient's urine electrolyte concentration (i.e. what electrolytes will be increased/decreased in the urine compared to baseline).

 

[normtheniner]

I'll probably do a quick read through cards/pulm physio in the first day or two. I read BRS almost three times M1 year so I'm hoping it'll be a quick read in 2 days. Pulm was my lowest score on the CBSE we took in March. (in addition to reading through those sections in FA on those days)