Hey cowboy...I feel your pain man. I took my Step I right after dental school as my program requires that I pass the stupid exam before the start of residency....in case you're wondering, I go to case western. Here's how I stuided. I read BRS path and physiology cover to cover. BRS phsyiology, you should know very well as the concepts are relevant to not only physiology but to pathology as well. BRS path has just too much info....it's almost impossible to know that whole book. I used FA and Kaplan questions as my guide. I basically memorized, I mean word for word memorized FA. The concepts I did not understand, I supplemented with BRS series or read the text books. I annotated notes from Kaplan directly on my FA book....you should see my FA, it looks like a rag. A week before hte test, I took my NBME and I was barely passing, but it turns out that the money I spent on that exam was worth every penny as a few of the questions (maybe 5 or so) were very similar to teh real exam. Plus taking the simulated exam is a real confidence booster. I read other text books as well, but I focused most of my efforts at studying and memorizing FA. It worked...I passed the exam, not with good scores, but I passed which was all I was hoping for. The exam is probably the most difficult exam I ever took in my life, but the good thing is that I remember absolutely nothing from the studying I did, so it no longer clutters up my brain. Thank God....
