Neuro/ Little time/ Poor subject/ best way forward

[Durgsheel]

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Hello
Neuro has been my weakness and I have procrastinated reviewing it.
how good does this game plan sound to fellow sdners-
- do RR neuro path
- review sprinal cord lesions and brain stem lesions in HY neuro

review.
Given the limited time (~2days) how does this sound and are there any better ideas?

Thanks

 

[silas2642]

Hello
Neuro has been my weakness and I have procrastinated reviewing it.
how good does this game plan sound to fellow sdners-
- do RR neuro path
- review sprinal cord lesions and brain stem lesions in HY neuro

review.
Given the limited time (~2days) how does this sound and are there any better ideas?

Thanks

Neuro has been killing me too-- I think that I'm pretty much going to use first aid as my base and then supplement with HY, including looking at the images, which I think might show up on the exam.

 

[sendwich]

me three. getting run over by a car would be more painful than going through neuro....especially the cerebellar section. 👎

 

[WildTumor]

ah ha, so i am not the only one....

neuro has been killing me. so yeah, ive been using FA supplemented with HY and still getting raped on Qbank

 

[EBI831]

hey, i personally think rapid review neuro (path) is terrible. if you can get your hands on first aid for the organ systems, i'd look over the neuro path section...it's got a lot more of the diseases that are showing up on qbank and UWorld that rapid review doesn't mention and it has a sweet about 9 page rapid review section of all the diseases with a short blurb. the chapter itself (the path section) isn't more than 20 pages.
just go to a bookstore and camp out and read it. hahaha.
that plus first aid i've found are good along with high yield/brs neuro for neuroanatomy. at least IMO based on how i'm doing on UWorld neuro Qs.

 

[Biochemist259]

Neuro prep:
1. Kaplan MedEssentials & FA
2. HY Brain & Behavior (to help clarify certain topics)
3. RR Path

 

[opusthecat]

Know the brain imaging, including angiograms. Know the sensory and motor spinal cord pathways cold so you can localize spinal cord lesions. Know brain stem pathology (Wallenburg, INO, medial medullary, locked-in syndrome) and anatomy (cranial nerves). Know the major visual field defects. Be able to recognize pathology on funduscopic images. That's a pretty good start. All of that stuff is in HY Neuro (except funduscopic images). I thought RR Path was pretty good for neuropathology.

 

[sendwich]

Know the brain imaging, including angiograms. Know the sensory and motor spinal cord pathways cold so you can localize spinal cord lesions. Know brain stem pathology (Wallenburg, INO, medial medullary, locked-in syndrome) and anatomy (cranial nerves). Know the major visual field defects. Be able to recognize pathology on funduscopic images. That's a pretty good start. All of that stuff is in HY Neuro (except funduscopic images). I thought RR Path was pretty good for neuropathology.

are cerebellar lesions likely to show up? i cannot for the life of me get myself to look at the stuff.

 

[Re3iRtH]

Know the brain imaging, including angiograms. Know the sensory and motor spinal cord pathways cold so you can localize spinal cord lesions. Know brain stem pathology (Wallenburg, INO, medial medullary, locked-in syndrome) and anatomy (cranial nerves). Know the major visual field defects. Be able to recognize pathology on funduscopic images. That's a pretty good start. All of that stuff is in HY Neuro (except funduscopic images). I thought RR Path was pretty good for neuropathology.

Was all that on your exam?

 

[opusthecat]

Was all that on your exam?

I had an angiogram question, a funduscopic image, an axial brain slice, and a spinal cord x-section. I also had to identify a cranial nerve on a brain stem pic. I don't remember if I had any brain stem lesion q's but I've heard they like to test the major ones that I mentioned (especially INO). I also don't remember if I had any visual defect q's but you should at the very least know that a pituitary tumor causes bitemporal hemianopsia. If you know the pathways well you can figure a lot of stuff out.

Don't stress out too much on cerebellar lesions. I would just know that a lesion in the cerebellar hemisphere will present with ipsilateral limb ataxia and that lesions to the vermis cause truncal and gait ataxia.

 

[Biochemist259]

Hello
Neuro has been my weakness and I have procrastinated reviewing it.
how good does this game plan sound to fellow sdners-
- do RR neuro path
- review sprinal cord lesions and brain stem lesions in HY neuro

review.
Given the limited time (~2days) how does this sound and are there any better ideas?

Thanks

I may have missed this but are u referring to Neuro for the USMLE or COMLEX?

 

[Durgsheel]

QUOTE=Biochemist259;I may have missed this but are u referring to Neuro for the USMLE or COMLEX?


USMLE (Sorry I should have been more specific)

 

[alwaysaangel]

Yeah just don't blow it off. I really hate neuro and I did the bare minimum (FA) and all the neuro questions in UW. Which was a bad idea, I figured I'd only get a few questions but I had a ton of neuro section images, and then a bunch of other general neuro questions 🙁 It was kind of disappointing. Just bad luck I guess.

 

[FutureChiDoc]

High Yield Neuro is awesome and only like 150 pages.

 

[Veronicacronica]

High Yield Neuro is awesome and only like 150 pages.

it's good. took me two days to read (and i wasn't exactly reading with a fine-tooth comb)...seems like it has more detail than necessary but images, tracks, and clinical bits are probably stuff to stick to...?

 

[Cliff Huxtable]

What info is FA lacking for neuro that needs to be supplemented?