M2s: reannotatting FA2018 or sticking with '17?

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Really would love to see more responses. I have been annotating 2017 FA throughout Med School but from the changes that I've seen so far in the 2018 it would be better to switch over the annotations. I feel as though the errata (Major issues) would be minor. Anyone else feel the same?
 
A second year here - I'm just sticking to my guns. How could I switch now when I am already familiar/have notes everywhere + all the corrections complete?

Medical science has not changed THAT much. Plus, the questions for this year's step were written a year ago.
 
PREMEDitated22 said:
Really would love to see more responses. I have been annotating 2017 FA throughout Med School but from the changes that I've seen so far in the 2018 it would be better to switch over the annotations. I feel as though the errata (Major issues) would be minor. Anyone else feel the same?
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I kinda feel the same and have been slowly transferring my annotations but I'm worried about the errata. Anyone know when it comes out? I test mid April
 
piii said:
I kinda feel the same and have been slowly transferring my annotations but I'm worried about the errata. Anyone know when it comes out? I test mid April
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that must be annoying especially if you use pen.. you can’t flip the page that soon or it smears haha

EDIT: plus wont you want room to annotate more when doing UWorld, etc.?
 
jcorpsmanMD said:
that must be annoying especially if you use pen.. you can’t flip the page that soon or it smears haha

EDIT: plus wont you want room to annotate more when doing UWorld, etc.?
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Hasn't been a problem, no smudging yet. Well most of my annotations are from Uworld + pathoma/sketchy. Re-annotating takes a while but it lets me review and re-organize my annotations which is nice.
 
I took Step 1 a few years ago, but personally I would switch over to the new FA. An alternative approach would be to buy FA18, figure out what is different in it, and annotate that back into your FA17. From what I can tell, in part based on personal experience, material that gets added is often pretty HY.
 
Damn... i've been using my FA 2016 since first year...

should I switch to the 2017 version? Wonder how many pages they added to it
 
operaman said:
This is the correct response.
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I mean, the mistakes in FA 2017 were pretty significant (especially in the Renal physiology chapter). Not risking it with buying the 2018 version. Many of us forget that First Aid is edited mostly by residents (not even attendings or PhDs or pathologists/pharmacologists). I'm sticking to my 2017. I may stop by a Barns and Nobles sometime in February and just run through a new one and make a note of new additions but that's about it.
 
Henry101 said:
I mean, the mistakes in FA 2017 were pretty significant (especially in the Renal physiology chapter). Not risking it with buying the 2018 version. Many of us forget that First Aid is edited mostly by residents (not even attendings or PhDs or pathologists/pharmacologists). I'm sticking to my 2017. I may stop by a Barns and Nobles sometime in February and just run through a new one and make a note of new additions but that's about it.
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this is a very valid point. at least you know all the mistakes in 2017 at this point and have corrected them most likely
 
It still baffles me that after so many editions, there are STILL major errata. If it's errata from new research in science that would contradict what we previously understood about something, then fine. But I've heard bad things about even the 2017 edition...
 
I stuck with the same version for M1 and M2. The changes weren't that great, you know the errata from the previous version, plus I'm a visual learner and recognized the same pages during the second year. Having a new visual aid would have likely made it harder for me. Imo, you might as well stick with your same copy and get more passes in than trying to re-annotate and reformat.
 
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